# Rapper Decides Earth is Flat, Goes Full Conspiracy Nut **URL:** \ **Category:** Monkey Tennis\ **Created:** [25 January 2016 17:56 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755 "2016-01-25T17:56:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KRG](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/krg/32/1061_2.png) [@KRG](https://www.sotonians.com/u/KRG)\ **Post date:** [25 January 2016 17:56 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/1 "2016-01-25T17:56:15Z")
Was tempted to put this in the When I Saw This… thread. But it needs a standalone thread, I think. [http://www.nme.com/news/bob/90989](http://www.nme.com/news/bob/90989) > US rapper [B.O.B](http://www.nme.com/artists/bob) has spent the weekend trying to convince his Twitter followers the the world is flat. > > Best known for 2010 single ‘Airplanes’, featuring Hayley Williams of Paramore, B.O.B is currently locked in a battle with his 2.2m Twitter supporters who are refusing to believe his suggestion that the planet is not round. > > B.O.B’s evidence against years of scientific research is mainly based on the fact he has never seen the curve of the earth and therefore believes it to be a lie. As he says in one tweet, “No matter how high in elevation you are… the horizon is always eye level.” > > He later added: “A lot of people are turned off by the phrase “flat earth” … but there’s no way u can see all the evidence and not know… grow up.” > > However, B.O.B is adamant that he’s not trying to trick people into believing the same thing as him: “Don’t try to back me into the “conspiracy theorist” corner… don’t be fooled. I speak from personal experience.” Some of my favourite bits: ## ---
**Author:** ![KRG](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/krg/32/1061_2.png) [@KRG](https://www.sotonians.com/u/KRG)\ **Post date:** [25 January 2016 17:56 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/2 "2016-01-25T17:56:50Z")
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**Author:** ![KRG](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/krg/32/1061_2.png) [@KRG](https://www.sotonians.com/u/KRG)\ **Post date:** [25 January 2016 17:57 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/3 "2016-01-25T17:57:29Z")
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**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [25 January 2016 18:04 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/4 "2016-01-25T18:04:28Z")
Hehe. That’s one that even I won’t touch. ---
**Author:** ![Sadoldgit](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/sadoldgit/32/44_2.png) [@Sadoldgit](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Sadoldgit)\ **Post date:** [25 January 2016 18:19 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/5 "2016-01-25T18:19:27Z")
How can you see the curve or have I missed something? :lou_lol: ---
**Author:** ![pap](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/pap/32/74795_2.png) [@pap](https://www.sotonians.com/u/pap)\ **Post date:** [25 January 2016 18:42 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/6 "2016-01-25T18:42:50Z")
If BoB can prove first that we’re all living in a gigantic simulation, I think he’s onto a winner. > ## The wrap around > > What I mean by wrap-around, is that when you fly off one edge of the world, you get warped to the other side, so you can travel infinitely but the world has finite area. > > Figure 1 > > In _Figure 1_, _A_ travels off the right hand edge of the world and is then wrapped around to the left hand edge. [http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/2012/04/13/implementing-a-wrap-around-world/](http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/2012/04/13/implementing-a-wrap-around-world/) The only _slight_ issue I see is that no-one is really going to give a fuck about the Earth being flat if he meets that aim. ---
**Author:** ![Bucks](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/bucks/32/87_2.png) [@Bucks](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Bucks)\ **Post date:** [25 January 2016 19:49 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/7 "2016-01-25T19:49:23Z")
Typical Yank, knowledge of world affairs absolutely naff all. Here, every man and his dog have seen Tim Peake’s photo albums 10 times over. Curved, fuckwit: ![](https://discourse-sotonians-uploads.s3.dualstack.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/original/3X/2/f/2f0984456f8dd47c5beb0a68b72c3d6cf62ef2aa.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Bearsy](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/bearsy/32/6_2.png) [@Bearsy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Bearsy)\ **Post date:** [25 January 2016 20:08 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/8 "2016-01-25T20:08:08Z")
This bro is right. If i was describing erf to someone, i would say it is flat, or mostly flat. It’s more flat than it is round deffo. ---
**Author:** ![Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fatso/32/18_2.png) [@Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fatso)\ **Post date:** [25 January 2016 20:14 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/9 "2016-01-25T20:14:41Z")
I have flown all over the world and when the plane lands it’s always on flat land, not curved land. This is true of every journey I have made, no matter where in the world. ---
**Author:** ![Coxford\_lou](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/coxford_lou/32/11_2.png) [@Coxford\_lou](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Coxford_lou)\ **Post date:** [25 January 2016 20:41 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/10 "2016-01-25T20:41:50Z")
What about hills? They’re round. And waves too. Factor in all the waves and hills and I reckon the world is more round than flat. ---
**Author:** ![SuperMikey](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/supermikey/32/38_2.png) [@SuperMikey](https://www.sotonians.com/u/SuperMikey)\ **Post date:** [25 January 2016 20:45 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/11 "2016-01-25T20:45:01Z")
I saw this on Twitter earlier, and the first thing I thought was “Pap”. This is what my life has come to. ---
**Author:** ![Bearsy](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/bearsy/32/6_2.png) [@Bearsy](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Bearsy)\ **Post date:** [25 January 2016 21:09 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/12 "2016-01-25T21:09:06Z")
Hills & waves are just tiny erf tumors uv got to look at bigger picture to see erf is flat, but dont look too big picture i.e from space or it will look round again uv got to look medium picture ---
**Author:** ![TheCholulaKid](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/thecholulakid/32/17_2.png) [@TheCholulaKid](https://www.sotonians.com/u/TheCholulaKid)\ **Post date:** [25 January 2016 21:18 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/13 "2016-01-25T21:18:33Z")
B.O.B hasn’t got exclusive rights on being a dumbass rapper. Sample lyrics from Insane Clown Posse: Fuckin’ magnets, how do they work? Scientists, yo’ muthafuckas lyin’ and gettin’ me pissed [![]( "YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-agl0pOQfs) ---
**Author:** ![Coxford\_lou](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/coxford_lou/32/11_2.png) [@Coxford\_lou](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Coxford_lou)\ **Post date:** [25 January 2016 21:22 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/14 "2016-01-25T21:22:20Z")
Is medium picture like standing on a mountain, or is that big picture? I’m assuming step ladder is small picture? ---
**Author:** ![KRG](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/krg/32/1061_2.png) [@KRG](https://www.sotonians.com/u/KRG)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2017 14:24 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/15 "2017-03-21T14:24:20Z")
Bump. Shaquille O’Neal, Basketball Hall-of-Famer, is also a Flat-Earther. > **[So, apparently Shaquille O'Neal is a flat-Earther, too](https://sports.yahoo.com/so-apparently-shaquille-oneal-is-a-flat-earther-too-035813782.html)** > > Shaquille O’Neal gives the flat-Earth theory his seal of approval. Soon afterwards, Denver Nuggets wing Wilson Chandler and Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green endorsed Irving’s flat-Earth theory, with the latter explaining away NASA’s... > _“When I drive from Florida to New York, flat!”_ Sweet Jesus\_ :lou_facepalm_2:\_ ---
**Author:** ![BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/btripz/32/75839_2.png) [@BTripz](https://www.sotonians.com/u/BTripz)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2017 14:34 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/16 "2017-03-21T14:34:19Z")
but that’s just an optical illusion caused by the curvature of the camera lens… ---
**Author:** ![Sadoldgit](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/sadoldgit/32/44_2.png) [@Sadoldgit](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Sadoldgit)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2017 15:49 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/17 "2017-03-21T15:49:20Z")
So does this mean that Australia is on the bottom and we are on the top of the flat Earth? Or are we all on the top and there is nothing on the bottom. I am just a bit worried in case B.O.B is right! ---
**Author:** ![dinger](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/dinger/32/142_2.png) [@dinger](https://www.sotonians.com/u/dinger)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2017 16:07 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/18 "2017-03-21T16:07:27Z")
Nobody has ever been underneath. Presumably there are exact replicas of each of us, with magnetic bottoms, keeping us pinned to the ground and giving the illusion of gravity. Unfortunately we will never find out due to NASAs tricks. ---
**Author:** ![KRG](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/krg/32/1061_2.png) [@KRG](https://www.sotonians.com/u/KRG)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2017 16:27 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/19 "2017-03-21T16:27:20Z")
According to some Flat Earthers, gravity is indeed a hoax. We get the illusion of gravity as Earth is constantly speeding through the galaxy ‘upwards’, towards the sun - which is apparently only a few thousand miles away? Yeah, I don’t really get it either. ---
**Author:** ![Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/user_avatar/www.sotonians.com/fatso/32/18_2.png) [@Fatso](https://www.sotonians.com/u/Fatso)\ **Post date:** [21 March 2017 16:38 UTC](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755/20 "2017-03-21T16:38:01Z")
that would explain global warming [Next page](https://www.sotonians.com/t/rapper-decides-earth-is-flat-goes-full-conspiracy-nut/755.md?page=2)