"I do have video evidence for reproductions of Rowbotham's work coming in today through the post. I'll have it converted and uploaded online within a few days."
where is this video?
The video I had ordered was a documentary called "In Search of the Edge: An Inquiry into the Shape of the Earth and the Disappearance of Andrea Barns." It was shown on the Discovery Channel a while back.
I was told by a colleague that Rowbotham's experiments were reproduced in a Learning Channel documentary, and assumed that this video was the same one. However, my colleague must have been referring to a different Flat Earth documentary since this particular video seems to deal more with the explorations of Antarctica rather than the convexity of standing water. My colleague tells me that the video which was shown on the Learning Channel features a FES member in England who takes us to the Bedford Canal in Cambridge and preforms Rowbotham's original experiments. The FES member in the video further demonstrates math on a chalkboard to back up the assertion that, considering the events on the Bedford Canal, the earth cannot be a globe.
well folks, i made the argument
here that we should let bishop off the hook on this one. he was thinking of the wrong video. he was wrong, but only trivially so and not having to do with fe/re. one might wonder, "why the hell didn't he just say that in the first place, and what's up with the inappropriately and thus suspiciously long explanation?" but it's a moot point. anything he says on this matter cannot be disproven. at least, not without a real-live investigation.
so good job, bishop. you weasled out of that one.
and as i pointed out, the bedford level experiment has been disproven far more convincingly than it has been "proven", so barring bishop posting the right video that he has actually seen himself and encourages us to watch as somehow more compelling evidence, i'd say this thread - in fact subject - is done.