Why the Earth Is Flat, Straight From the Mouth of a Very Popular Rapper
Here is some news that is either comforting or depressing: there are still flat Earth truthers out there. Prominent among them is the very successful rapper B.o.B (you might know him from... this one?), who has spent the last 24 hours or so tweeting a lot of good flat Earth memes and theories.
He started with 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
B.o.B—who has more Twitter followers than every news organization on this planet—then spent the rest of last night further arguing his belief with increasingly convoluted evidence and has continued on into this morning. Here is his response to someone saying that the world doesn’t have edges (god, this is so stupid):
have u been to the edge ? or is that what your science book told you https://t.co/61qaI5xx5f
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016
There was a little tangent about Felix Baumgartner’s space jump:
I was on a plane the SAME time the Red Bull jump happened. The pilot told us to lookout the window.. 5 miles to the left was the balloon
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016
We were flying at the SAME altitude as the guy who did the red bull jump... NO curve... even tho their footage shows otherwise
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016
A note about GoPros:
Btw... Go Pros have curved lenses.
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016
A lot about horizon lines being straight:
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
@bobatl @willshirola it's not, go to the beach, look at the horizon all the way around. It curves.
— Zack Veddern (@ZacK60_WPS) January 25, 2016
@ZacK60_WPS where???? pic.twitter.com/7Ay4SaQfSa
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016
There were many inscrutable .jpgs of unknown origin:
— 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
Good Job Guys 👍🏾 pic.twitter.com/GWFzfQDfNu
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016
This morning, he began tweeting what appears to be excerpts from some sort of flat Earth master text:
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016
As a celebrity flat Earth truther, B.o.B is brother-in-arms with onetime reality show person Tila Tequilla, so he’s certainly in good company. But flat Earth is not the only conspiracy theory he believes.
He appears to be a moon landing truther:
there's wind on the moon ? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/PEqtCwgSbc
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 25, 2016
Then there’s this whole thing about celebrities being cloned:
since I'm lying... prove it ... pic.twitter.com/KoJmqSpXnX
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 22, 2016
Notice a celebrity who have tattoos or piercings mysteriously vanish ? = cloning center
— B.o.B (@bobatl) December 7, 2015
when a celebrity in great health suddenly suffered a stroke, heart attack, aneurism = cloning center
— B.o.B (@bobatl) December 7, 2015
Every time you see a celebrity "randomly" loose their mind = cloning center
— B.o.B (@bobatl) December 7, 2015
Anyway, here’s one mantra we can all get behind:
if my tweets are rattling the tiny little cages of your reality ... the unfollow button is right there
— B.o.B (@bobatl) January 23, 2016