The rapper B.o.B. has spent the last couple days on his Twitter feed arguing that the world is flat.
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Tyson – the director of the American Museum of Natural History’s Hayden Planetarium, and one of the most prominent science communicators alive today – responded to B.o.B.’s claims via Twitter Monday.
Eventually B.o.B.’s freaky tweets landed him into a heated argument with a famed astrophysicist that inspired him to write a propaganda-filled “diss track” that also casually features some Holocaust denial. His comments garnered the attention of lauded astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who did everything in his power to refute the rapper’s beliefs with some real facts. The Flat Earth Society has been growing since 2004 and promotes a library of sources supporting its claims on its website. The track also ends with an extended clip of Tyson discussing the actual “oblate” shape of the Earth, taken in this context, apparently, to sound like gibberish. “You’ve never been south of Earth’s Equator, or if so, you’ve never looked up”.
Yes, you heard me correctly; both the adult film star and North Carolina rapper genuinely believe that the Earth is flat and openly posted about it on one of the most massive social media sites available.
“The good thing about science is it’s true whether or not you believe in it”.
Tyson likely didn’t know the depth of his involvement here in what has become the first patently weird rap-related feud of the new year.
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“Very important that I clear this up/ You say that Neil’s vest is what he needs to loosen up?/ The ignorance you’re spinning helps to keep people enslaved, I mean mentally”.
