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Bedford Level Experiment

The Bedford Level experiment was a series of observations carried out along a 6-mile (10 km) length of the Old Bedford River on the Bedford Level of the Cambridgeshire Fens in the United Kingdom during the 19th and early 20th centuries to measure the curvature of the Earth. Samuel Birley Rowbotham, who conducted the first observations starting in 1838, claimed that he had proven the Earth to be flat. However, in 1870, after adjusting Rowbotham's method to allow for the effects of atmospheric refraction, Alfred Russel Wallace found a curvature consistent with a spherical Earth. more »

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Flying high above the surface 
River of wind washes the planet clean 
The earth reshaped by The Convergence 
Aloft in the Slipstream 

In pursuit of a well-dressed man 
Running around the ruined mountain-rim 
Falls from high, pulled by grappling hook 
"He thought the wind would save him" 

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth 
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God" 
"And Thou art Dead, as Young and Fair" 
He's quoting Magee and Byron 

He wonders what it was like growing up 
He believes he knows where he belongs 
He heals the blind boy's sight, a simple thing 
He wants justice for his own wrongs 

Wanted for killing a man, they want to turn him in 
One wants to restore law, to apprehend 
The other sees a bounty to break out of poverty 
But what he really needs is a friend

Flying high above the surface 
River of wind washes the planet clean 
The earth reshaped by The Convergence 
Aloft in the Slipstream

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