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

[the-pi-guy]

He made a song about it.  

Spoiler for Lyrics:

Yo, you ain&#39;t seen my best<br>Checkmate, ain&#39;t a game of chess<br>Globalists see me as a threat<br>Free thinking, got the world at my neck<br>Hah, am I paranoid? Picture Malcolm X<br>In a room full of pigs, trying not to bust a sweat<br>Aye, Neil Tyson need to loosen up his vest<br>They&#39;ll probably write that man one hell of a check<br>Aye, I&#39;m over here on this side of town<br>Come on over, over, over, over here try to clown<br>Aye, I never pipe down<br>If they weren&#39;t coming for me then<br>They definitely coming for me now<br>I can&#39;t even keep my phone charged up<br>All this shame I&#39;m talking, I should get my home bought up<br>Rappers get off of my sucker and get your own bars up<br>Now the mirror lizard&#39;s breath got the clones scared cuz<br>Woo, use your, use your common sense<br>Why is NASA part of the department of defense?<br>They divided up the seas into thirty-three degrees<br>Feeding kids masonry, bruh, be careful what you read<br><br>[Hook 1]<br>Flat line, flat line<br>There&#39;s no superior blood line<br>Flat line, flat line<br>You got me once but that died, aye<br><br>[Verse 2]<br>Voice, voice, do I have a voice?<br>Do I give a fudge? Do I have a choice?<br>Joint, joint, I roll up a joint<br>Keep my shooters in the game like I hate to disappoint<br>I see only good things on the horizon<br>That&#39;s probably why the horizon is always rising<br>Indoctrinated in a cult called science<br>And graduated to a club full of liars<br>Heliocentrism, you were the sixth victim<br>fudge you and your team, you could sit on the bench with &#39;em<br>They nervous, but before you try to curve it<br>Do your research on David Irving<br>Stalin was way worse than Hitler<br>That&#39;s why the POTUS gotta wear a kippah<br>I&#39;m a man first &#39;fore an artist<br>Get a lawyer, look up Doctor Richard Sauder<br><br>[Hook 2]<br>Flat line<br>You fooled us for the last time<br>Flat line, flat line<br>There&#39;s no superior blood line<br><br>[Interlude: Neil Tyson]<br>So you want to find farthest point from that center. And it turns out sea level at the equator is farther away from the center of the Earth than sea level near the poles. It has nothing to do with global warming and melting of the ice caps<br><br>(Why is that?)<br><br>Because... Earth, we know it spins, once a.... day. Yes, thank you. Three people know, uh, how long a day lasts here<br><br>(Good for row number two, they&#39;re off to a great start)<br><br>So you, so you spin, you know when you spin pizza dough, it kind of flattens out. It gets wider in the middle...so Earth throughout its life, even when it formed, it was spinning. And it got a little wider at the equator than it does at the poles. So it&#39;s not actually a sphere, it&#39;s oblate, it&#39;s officially an oblate spheroid. That&#39;s what we call it. But not only that, it&#39;s slightly wider below the equator than above the equator<br><br>(A little chubbier?)<br><br>Little chubbier, chubby&#39;s a good word, it&#39;s like pear-shaped. It turns out the pear-shapedness is bigger than the height of Mount Everest above sea level<br><br>[Hook 2]<br>Flat line<br>You fooled us for the last time<br>Flat line, flat line<br>There&#39;s no superior blood line<br>Dead<br>

[BasilZero]

But why?

[the-pi-guy]

But why?

He's convinced the earth is flat for whatever reason.

They generally seem to make the following arguments:
-Earth appears flat somehow.  There's like 80 variations on how they are showing this.  They fail to account for the size of the Earth and the untrustworthy-ness of eyesight.  
-if it wasn't flat we'd fall off.  Gravity doesn't exist.  

[DD_Bwest]

Neil deGrasse Tyson just shut down B.o.B with his diss track "Flat to Fact" -

[the-pi-guy]

Not a problem at all! I only learned it a few months ago.

But I guess I'll keep watching.

After some thinking, I would've done a much better job at it.  

One thing is the magnetism.  Their proposed magnetism would have to have to have the same properties of gravity.  Soil, water, everything else, all fall in a particular way.  Using magnetism to try to explain this, would have the same "problems" to their view as gravity would.  It'd end up being the same problem under a different name.  

Another common complaint is about the suggestion that the Earth is rotating at these great speeds.  Shouldn't helicopters just be able to get off the ground, and have the Earth turn under them?  Here's an experiment you can do on your own.  If you're in a smooth car ride, and you (carefully) release the ball into the air, does it go flying back at 60 mph or does it drop almost exactly where it was above?  If you're in a roller coaster, and you drop a ball on the way down, you can notice that it stays with you the entire time, until something pulls you back up again.  (Assuming you were in free fall).  

[Legend]

After some thinking, I would've done a much better job at it.  

One thing is the magnetism.  Their proposed magnetism would have to have to have the same properties of gravity.  Soil, water, everything else, all fall in a particular way.  Using magnetism to try to explain this, would have the same "problems" to their view as gravity would.  It'd end up being the same problem under a different name.  

Another common complaint is about the suggestion that the Earth is rotating at these great speeds.  Shouldn't helicopters just be able to get off the ground, and have the Earth turn under them?  Here's an experiment you can do on your own.  If you're in a smooth car ride, and you (carefully) release the ball into the air, does it go flying back at 60 mph or does it drop almost exactly where it was above?  If you're in a roller coaster, and you drop a ball on the way down, you can notice that it stays with you the entire time, until something pulls you back up again.  (Assuming you were in free fall).  

I say we keep gravity but make the Earth an infinite plane.

Results in gravity being 1G regardless of distance from the plane, so it works out.

[DD_Bwest]