Neil deGrasse Tyson Drops the Mic on Flat Earth Truther B.o.B. [View all]

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Drops the Mic on Flat Earth Truther B.o.B.

by Matt Wilstein at the Daily Beast

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/28/neil-degrasse-tyson-drops-the-mic-on-flat-earth-truther-b-o-b.html

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Removing his tan sport coat to reveal a tight black T-shirt, Tyson picked up a mic and said into the camera, “Listen B.o.B, once and for all. The Earth looks flat because, one, you’re not far enough away, at your size. Two, your size isn’t large enough relative to Earth to notice any curvature at all. It’s a fundamental fact of calculus and non-Euclidean geometry—small sections of large curved surfaces will always look flat to little creatures that crawl upon it.


“There’s a growing anti-intellectual strain in this country, and it may be the beginning of the end of our informed democracy,” Tyson continued. He said B.o.B. is free to think the world is flat, but since his position as a successful rapper, like being a presidential candidate, means he has “influence over others,” therefore, “being wrong becomes being harmful to the health, the wealth, and the security of our citizenry.”


Quoting “my man” Isaac Newton, Tyson said, “‘If I have seen farther than others, it’s by standing on the shoulders of giants.’ So that’s right B.o.B, when you stand on the shoulders of those who came before, you might just see far enough to realize the Earth isn’t fucking flat.”

With that, he dropped the mic, saying, “By the way, this is called gravity.”


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