Popular rapper B.o.B has more than 2 million followers on Twitter, and starting Sunday evening and into Monday, he’s been trying to convince everyone that the Earth is flat. In a dizzying collection of memes and misinformation, B.o.B has managed to at least entertain us.
The 27-year-old recording artist, born Bobby Ray Simmons, Jr., is no slouch. He’s had chart-topping success with his albums and singles, and he even won a 2010 Teen Choice Award for Best Hook-Up song for “Airplanes,” the video for which has been viewed 306 million times.
B.o.B kicked things off with this tweet:
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
And from there he spent a good deal of time daring people to go to the edge of a flat Earth or test the insane theory that the planet is actually round by getting in an airplane and flying all the way around. He called out the curvature of GoPro camera lenses and shared heavily from apparent Flat Earth Truther text.
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B.o.B was particularly insistent that because the horizon line is always straight, the Earth must be flat.
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And he says he was on an airplane at the same time Felix Baumgartner did his record-breaking freefall from 128,000 feet.
https://twitter.com/bobatl/status/691432090131247104
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At one point, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is even moved to chime in.
https://twitter.com/bobatl/status/691630923851436033
@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 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
Many of B.o.B’s musings included the skeptical hand-on-chin emoji. And weren’t resigned to theories about the shape of Earth.
https://twitter.com/bobatl/status/691636965448507392
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In the end, the Earth continued to spin in all its round glory and one rapper was free to keep spinning in all of his.
https://twitter.com/bobatl/status/691635408820649985
