Yesterday, B.o.B., rapper and 9th grade dropout, decided to go on Twitter and tell everyone the Earth was flat. Seeing those tweets, Neil deGrasse Tyson, an astrophysicist with a Ph.D from Columbia University, decided to respond. What a time to be alive.
@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 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
That should have been the end of it, right? That probably should have been the end of it. In fact, it wasn’t the end of it because B.o.B.’s thesis disproving the curvature of the Earth was just published in a respected science journal lol jk he released a diss track called “Flatline” where he compares himself to Malcolm X and says a lot of dumb shit about “conspiracies” and the Holocaust I don’t know what’s happening here exactly, but I live in Decatur like B.o.B. The weed here ain’t that good.
[ h/t Gawker ]
