seananmcguire:lior-liraz:vaspider:popculturebrain:micdotcom:micdotcom:micdotcom:the-future-now:Wait,
seananmcguire:lior-liraz:vaspider:popculturebrain:micdotcom:micdotcom:micdotcom:the-future-now:Wait, does rapper B.o.B. really think the Earth is flat — or is he trolling us?After claiming to have watched Felix Baumgartner’s famous Red Bull Stratos jump from the edge of space, recording artist B.o.B is furiously tweeting everything science says about the Earth being round is a total lie. Why is he doing this? We have an idea.Follow @the-future-nowUpdate: Neil deGrasse Tyson has joined the fray to lay the scientific smackdown on B.o.B.Tyson sent the rapper multiple tweets disproving him and then things got personal.Update: This feud is getting weirder and weirder. B.o.B released a new track “Flatline” on Monday, that takes a few shots at Neil deGrasse Tyson. “Aye, Neil Tyson need to loosen up his vest,” the rapper spits. “They’ll probably write that man one hell of a check.”And then Tyson fired back with a diss track of his own. Really.The astrophysicist enlisted the help of his nephew Stephen J. Tyson, who is apparently a rapper. Tyson delivers the facts at B.o.B. over a Drake beat.Update: It got better. Neil deGrasse Tyson apparently wasn’t done educating B.o.B. Here’s what happened on The Nightly Show:You need to hear the crowd’s reaction to this.This is the greatest thing happening right now.“And by the way, this is called gravity” from Neil deGrasse Tyson is the greatest fucking mic drop of all time.Okay, but many if not most of the bizarre theories B.o.B spouted were antisemitic conspiracy theories (clones and lizard people, anyone?), he referred his audience to an infamous Holocaust denier, and said that Obama was being controlled by Jews, so I’d appreciate it if everyone would stop acting like it’s a fucking joke.Oh, ugh. I had not heard about any of that.Thank you for the information. -- source link