B.O.B & Neil DeGrasse Tyson Are Legit Feuding Over Whether Earth Is Flat Or Not
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Veteran rapper and apparently renowned scholar B.o.B has dragged popular astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson into a Twitter debate-turned-actual-rap-battle over whether the planet Earth is flat or not, more than 2000 years after ancient Greek astronomers first thought they had a pretty solid answer to that question.
In a wide-ranging, days-long tweet stream taken right out of the Conspiracy Theorist Starter Pack — in which B.o.B expressed everything from certainty of the existence of human cloning centres to scepticism about the legitimacy of the nuclear bombs that ended World War II, with a healthy dose of suggestion that we're all sheep for believing in science — the rapper honed in hardcore on the notion that our planet is a sphere, an obviously frivolous, hole-ridden theory that B.o.B seems pretty convinced he has utterly disproven because you can't actually, like, see the Earth's curve in photos, man. He even implied that the planet doesn't spin on its axis, for good measure.
Just look at this.
The cities in the background are approx. 16miles apart... where is the curve ? please explain this pic.twitter.com/YCJVBdOWX7
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016
Time-lapse photos of stars form perfect circles... how is this possible ? pic.twitter.com/d9d1sJja8z
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016
1000mph pic.twitter.com/FNq2ma55xh
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016
Btw... Go Pros have curved lenses.
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016
No matter how high in elevation you are... the horizon is always eye level ... sorry cadets... I didn't wanna believe it either.
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016
y'all be like... "you're not high enough to see the curve...keep going" pic.twitter.com/dzgYpIIao3
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016
You can regurgitate force fed information all day... still doesn't change physics.
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016Having invoked physics in his argument, as though casting some kind of Science Signal into the (probably fake) sky, B.o.B's train of thought was soon derailed by a sweet serve of facts from DeGrasse Tyson, who straight up bungee-jumped into the mental abyss with his own rebuttals for the rapper's insistence of a flat Earth.
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@bobatl Earth's curve indeed blocks 150 (not 170) ft of Manhattan. But most buildings in midtown are waaay taller than that.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 25, 2016
@bobatl Polaris is gone by 1.5 deg S. Latitude. You’ve never been south of Earth’s Equator, or if so, you've never looked up.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 25, 2016
@bobatl Flat Earth is a problem only when people in charge think that way. No law stops you from regressively basking in it.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 25, 2016
@bobatl Duude — to be clear: Being five centuries regressed in your reasoning doesn’t mean we all can’t still like your music
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 25, 2016
The Cosmos is knowable. When childhood curiosity persists as an adult, it inoculates against others telling you what to think
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 26, 2016After posting countless photos and PDFs apparently supporting his theory, B.o.B clarified that this actually isn't anything to do with promoting his music, although it has culminated in something we couldn't possibly have seen coming: the aforementioned rap battle with DeGrasse Tyson (well, his nephew, Tyson, filling in on vocal flow for NDT) by way of opposing tracks asserting their distinct points of view.
I question the international laws that prevent you from exploring Antartica and the North Pole... what's there to hide?
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 26, 2016
they want me to be a "good little rapper" and sing and dance and don't question things...
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 26, 2016
I'm going up against the greatest liars in history ... you've been tremendously deceived
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 26, 2016
No I'm not crazy , Yes I'm feeling fine, no I'm not doing anything stronger than weed, am I doing this to promote my music .. No...
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 26, 2016
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 26, 2016
Dear @bobatl, as an astrophysicist I don’t rap, but I know people who do. This one has my back: https://t.co/BbMi4tzHLz
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) January 26, 2016Here are the direct embeds for the tracks:
And... that's it. They've moved on. It ended as unceremoniously as it began. B.o.B wants to talk about the Super Bowl now. Well, that and human cloning. Never change, B.o.B. You haven't been this interesting in years.
Since all mass media wants to make me look crazy and drag me through the mud... make sure you mention the cloning centers I talked about
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 26, 2016
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