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Dr Adequate
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Message 17 of 119 (706489)
09-12-2013 12:43 PM 		Reply to: Message 16 by ringo
09-12-2013 12:23 PM

Re: from the FAQ
I remember reading about an experiment that was done a hundred years or so ago in England:
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There was a stretch of canal that was perfectly straight for six miles or so. They set up markers at a fixed height above the water at each end and in the middle. Sighting along the markers, it was observed that they fell in a straight line, indicating that the surface of the water was perfectly flat.
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This was done by Alfred Russel Wallace, the other guy who thought up evolution and in effect forced Darwin to publish. Wallace did the canal experiment as a bet with a flat-Earther who refused to pay up when Wallace won. The flat-Earther in question was later imprisoned for libeling Wallace and issuing death-threats. Wallace would later go on to become a Spiritualist, proving that no-one's perfect.
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09-13-2013 12:09 PM 		Reply to: Message 6 by New Cat's Eye
09-09-2013 1:31 PM

They mention that the North Pole is the center of the disc and at the outer edge is an ice wall that corresponds to Antarctica. If they really cared to find out, they could measure the length of the circumference of Antarctica and figure out that its way to small to be the outer edge of the disc.
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Is there any reason why they put the North Pole in the middle, rather then ... well, anything else, it would work equally well.
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