My peer wrote me today that they won't be interacting with me again, as I believe the Earth is flat.
I thought it was obvious. The Earth has been observed to be flat. I wouldn't be even mentioning it, but the colleague brought up science, so I just listed it as an example of scientists being obviously wrong despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
Steemit vs YouTube
I wanted to embed here a slightly more complex video, but I won't due to a Steemit bug I won't. I would have to scroll the video to a particular position to explain my point, but embedding a video starting at a particular position is disabled.
Instead I will just post a link to (as opposed to embed) a more generic video in which a man proves they do not know what they are talking about.
At one point in the video the speaker brings up a TV experiment involving a laser, a telescope and a helicopter.
They do not explain what the experiment was supposed to prove, and why it hasn't been reproduced.
I wrote them:
Flat Earthers exist because Earth exist. People examine the Earth and know it is flat. Why do you assume a helicopter is needed to measure the shape of the Earth? Just a laser beam, not even a telescope. First shine a laser beam into the sky. Then slowly lower it and see whether it eventually hits the water or the opposite shore. Anyhow, personal drones are not very expensive. If this experiment conclusively proved the Earth is round, why hasn't it been reproduced? You have failed to explain how the experiment was conducted and why, if at all, it would fail if somebody would just use a big laser, a drone and an amateur telescope.
Why won't I write a better article
I have been testing Steemit for about a week.
The YouTube bug may be a show stopper. When I do paste a video, I want to be able to review it, and scroll it for my readers, to the very second.
I've been trying several tricks, including manually typing in minutes and seconds in the video address, the way I learned on WordPress, but Steemit won't have it.
The bug description on GitHub was updated but a few hours ago, with a demonstration of a working code fixing the issue, so I believe somebody is working on it.
Anyway, I may leave Steemit if I discover that the bug won't be fixed, so I won't be able to paste videos starting at a chosen time.
I am wondering, though, why in the Steemit tutorials I found online this issue is not even mention.
Still, I put some STEEM power in my wallet today, so if I am upvoting your publications for the next couple of days, you will be receiving 2 cents per vote.