Is land surveying closer to science or dark art?

Depends whether you accept that the earth is flat

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myscreenname said..
Is land surveying closer to science or dark art?

well some how they get tunnels to meet, when boring underneath mountains from opposite directions.

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decrepit said..
well some how they get tunnels to meet, when boring underneath mountains from opposite directions.

Does that mean it's dark science?

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Harrow said.. .>>>>>>Does that mean it's dark science?

Would you dig a tunnel in the dark?

Surveyors are people who weren't smart enough to pass engineering exams at school so became surveyors.

If they weren't smart enough pass the surveying exams they became architects.

If they weren't smart enough to pass architect exams - oh that's right no exams for architecture, just draw a picture of a house and get told "that's nice dear, here is a certificate for you".

There was this guy here once who was an architect and he knew so much more than ANYONE about how a building would not collapse after all the main supporting columns were farked from something that weighed 200 tonnes hitting it at 300kph.

What was that all about again...?

I used to think it was science, till I worked with a team of surveyors.


They were into some really weird sh!t. Three of them used to eat muesli dry. They used to have competitions to see who could whack the others backside the hardest with one of those plastic reflective posts they put along road sides (ok, maybe that one was a kiwi thing).


there's definitely something freaky about pointing a stick towards the heavens, and having numbers come back. I'd say they're extra terrestrial at the very least.

Land surveying is for most right angle triangle geometry, making it math.
Geometry itself is considered science, although graphic arts is considered an arts degree, however, screen pixel manipulation for position rendering in a computer program is done geometrically as each pixel as a square.

I think the hydrographic surveyor, has a lot to answer for.ahh the pond.(safety bay).

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gavnwend said..
I think the hydrographic surveyor, has a lot to answer for.ahh the pond.(safety bay).

Do you really think the council is taking any notice of the surveyor?
Did I hear right that a nearby councillor has a boat he launches there?