• Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.

B.o.B Tries to Convince Twitter Earth Is Flat

Status
Not open for further replies.
R

RibMan

Member
Just saw the Neil Tyson tweet. Magnificent.

Johndoey said:
So is the flat earth two sided or is everything on one plane? How flat is it? Is it like one dimensional or what. Does trying to go off one side loop you to the other?
Click to expand...

It's two sided. The other side has the transformers.
 
S

supernormal

Member
SillyNonsense said:
I was thinking about this question. 16 miles is 0.06425% of the Earth's circumference. That's loosely around one twentieth of a single percent (more exact fraction being closer to 8/125).

This translates to around one fifth of a single degree with it comes to angles (0.2313 degrees exactly).

If my math is right and I didn't screw this up, please someone tweet this to him:

t9rdwKh.jpg


Short answer: None. This is a real circle I created in Photoshop, zoomed in to display only "16 miles" worth. Just because it looks flat doesnt mean it is. That is literally a circle we're looking at.
Click to expand...

Can't believe you took the time to do this. Really awesome.
 
A

Alphahawk

Member
Verse 2 seems to promote David Irving, an author who is also a known Holocaust denier.

I really don't want to know what else B.O.B believes.
 
C

CaviarMeths

Member
Nivash said:
The counterargument is that the sun is much smaller and much closer than you think. It doesn't disappear behind the curvature of the Earth, it just gets obscured by the scenery.

http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=53629.0#.VqaVXvB86rU

Why-does-the-sun-set-on-a-Flat-Earth-Answer-Its-all-perspective_thumb11504.jpg


I vaguely remember some kind of alternate theory about the sun actually being a hovering spotlight rather than an orb that radiates light equally in all directions too, now that I think about it. I mean a lot of these people are trolls who make it up as they go along, there's not perfect consistency in the "movement".
Click to expand...

Clearly Flat Earthers have never been to Saskatchewan.

What's a "scenery?"
 
I

Irminsul

Member
I wonder how distances, areas, and angles work on a flat Earth. Sure, there's the "argument" that the flat Earth isn't a Mercator projection, but what is it then? You can't project a sphere onto a flat surface without losing one of these properties. Which should be extremely noticeable in Australia, shouldn't it?
 
G

gaugebozo

Member
Irminsul said:
I wonder how distances, areas, and angles work on a flat Earth. Sure, there's the "argument" that the flat Earth isn't a Mercator projection, but what is it then? You can't project a sphere onto a flat surface without losing one of these properties. Which should be extremely noticeable in Australia, shouldn't it?
Click to expand...
Only NASA goes to Australia. Find another source!
 
Jzero

Jzero

Member
Holy fuck he just keeps posting more dumb shit by the minute. Lost all respect for him.

He literally tweeted about believing in geocentrism now.
 
T

The Real Abed

Perma-Junior
NHarmonic. said:
Between this and Jim Carrey's anti vaccine tendencies...

How can you be so fucking stupid?
Click to expand...
Not to mention the countless celebrities who somehow get suckered into Scientology despite how obviously cult-like and fake it is. As if they feel they need to be in some religion and think all the others are just silly and atheism isn't an option. Then they can't get out of it because, well, it's a freaking cult.

Celebrities are people just like us!
They do their laundry on weekends just like us!
They get milk from the convenience store at 2AM just like us!
They get sucked into a cult-like "religion" and can't get out after it's too late just like us!
 
I

ItIsOkBro

Member
Do people just wake up and decide to be hella stupid all of a sudden? Like, I haven't heard a peep from BoB for like 5 years. And now, this.
 
N

NHarmonic.

Member
The Real Abed said:
Not to mention the countless celebrities who somehow get suckered into Scientology despite how obviously cult-like and fake it is. As if they feel they need to be in some religion and think all the others are just silly and atheism isn't an option. Then they can't get out of it because, well, it's a freaking cult.

Celebrities are people just like us!
They do their laundry on weekends just like us!
They get milk from the convenience store at 2AM just like us!
They get sucked into a cult-like "religion" and can't get out after it's too late just like us!
Click to expand...

I guess with religion is different because anyone can believe in whatever they want, if it's part of their own "spiritual journey". I still think scientology is stupid and baseless, but hey, nothing to do there.

With BoB's or Carrey's kind of statements i just imagine all science men and women intantly face-palming all around the world. Years of study and investigation, in so many areas to have this people spill this shit without thinking or researching more than youtube and google conspiracy shit...
 
T

The Real Abed

Perma-Junior
NHarmonic. said:
I guess with religion is different because anyone can believe in whatever they want, if it's part of their own "spiritual journey". I still think scientology is stupid and baseless, but hey, nothing to do there.

With BoB's or Carrey's kind of statements i just imagine all science men and women intantly face-palming all around the world. Years of study and investigation, in so many areas to have this people spill this shit without thinking or researching more than youtube and google conspiracy shit...
Click to expand...
Well there's a difference between picking a normal religion like Christianity, Judaism, etc. and one based on the "fact" that aliens came down to Earth and locked a bunch of spirits away in a volcano or something whatever that South Park episode said plus the fact that all outsiders know how silly it is. If you're a celebrity, you'd have to be pretty closed off from the rest of the world to not know about it. Unless recruiters for the religion outright lie to them to trick them into thinking they're getting into something else, but then why get sucked into anything at all? Then again, if someone like B.o.B. can truly believe the Earth is flat, then I can buy someone like Tom Cruise believing in an alien conspiracy.

I'd definitely still put Scientology up there with Flat-Earth and Anti-Vaccine stuff.

In the end, as long as it doesn't affect their output, I don't care what they believe.
 
M

mclem

Member
Sicious said:
I can't believe it, we're in the 21st century and people still believe that Earth is round. Step up your game you ignorants!
Click to expand...

Oh, flat earth people still think the earth is round. They just don't think it's a sphere.

Dishwalla said:
Didn't any of these people ever go to the Windows of the World restaurant when it existed? Apparently it was high enough up that you could see the curvature of the Earth on a good day.
Click to expand...

Or, even simpler than that, look out of the window of a jet.
 
Mengy

Mengy

wishes it were bannable to say mean things about Marvel
Kaladin said:
He probably believes in the Far Lands too.
Click to expand...

The Far Lands were real once! Sadly they have now been patched out, but you can still play earlier versions and visit them if you want to.


As for people believing in a flat Earth still today, I don't find it hard to believe. There are millions of people who also believe the Earth is just 6000 years old too. Some people are just ignorant of reality, that's all.


I wonder if anyone believes in a 6000 year old flat Earth? o_O
 
A

Agent Gibbs

Member
I don't understand how people cannot get their head round the fact that the earth is so large and by comparison our cities are but a grain of sand to it, thus 5 cities have such a small distance between in the grand scheme of things that the curvature is unnoticeable to a human in real terms

Has nobody tried explaining it to him properly? or to any of these idiots?

I wish we could round up the anti vaxxers, the earth is 6000 year old people and the flat earth people and deport them to an asteroid
 
P

psylah

Member
MrBigBoy said:
Why doesn't this guy go to the "edge" of the Earth, and take a picture to prove you fall off?
Click to expand...

Once you reach the edge there is an invisible dimensional rift that immediately transports you to the other side of the disc to give you the illusion of an unbroken single land mass.

Duh.
 
B

BlazingDarkness

Member
Flat Earthers also believe other bullshit, such as:

There is no gravity
Satellites either don't exist, or if they do exist, they are just there, and weren't put there by us
The edge of the world is guarded by all governments of the world, to prevent anyone from seeing it

....yeah..
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Similar threads

  • Locked
Rapper B.o.B. Has Started a GoFundMe Campaign to Prove That the Earth Is Flat
2 3 4
196
22K
DKehoe replied
  • Locked
B.o.B. just released a Neil Degrasse Tyson diss track cause #FlatEarth
2 3 4 5
215
20K
PillarEN replied
  • Locked
Neil D Tyson responds to B.o.B's flat earth diss track against him with his own*
2
68
8K
dc3k replied
  • Locked
The War Over Iggy Azalea: ESPN Anchor Claims the Femcee Is ‘Trying to Kill Hip Hop'
2 3 4
190
18K
Azalean replied
COMICS! |OT| November 2016. Wilde for comics, 2 Hickman books this month.
133 134 135 136 137
7K
274K
choaffable replied
Top Bottom