Get your popcorn ready.

Haven't seen this posted here yet

B.O.B the rapper w. his 2 million followers has been heating up headlines claiming the earth is flat.

This is getting picked up by major news organizations everywhere today and Neil deGrasse Tyson has been arguing with him

Haven't seen this posted here yet

B.O.B the rapper w. his 2 million followers has been heating up headlines claiming the earth is flat.

This is getting picked up by major news organizations everywhere today and Neil deGrasse Tyson has been arguing with him

Another few hundred sub 80IQ Fe fantasists on the way because the horizon looked flat on a picture. No wonder FE cant gain traction when a majority of its promoters are the below 80 brigade.

Stole my thunder 

Quote from: Silicon on January 25, 2016, 02:09:05 PM

Haven't seen this posted here yet

B.O.B the rapper w. his 2 million followers has been heating up headlines claiming the earth is flat.

This is getting picked up by major news organizations everywhere today and Neil deGrasse Tyson has been arguing with him

Another few hundred sub 80IQ Fe fantasists on the way because the horizon looked flat on a picture. No wonder FE cant gain traction when a majority of its promoters are the below 80 brigade.

Come'on guys really? It's really making you look bad when you have to resort to this kind of response.

Anyway, I find it very entertaining that NT, has jumped on this so hard.  I feel so sorry for him.

Niel, you have my permission to come to this forum and vent everything you know... Just get it off your chest man, do it anonymously , just do it. 

What is B.O.B. is actually Scepti...

What is B.O.B. is actually Scepti...

After a quick look at his tweets,  I don't think he's as smart as scepti,   ( and that's not a compliment to scepti )

My money is on publicity stunt,   he saw  Tila Tequila,  rise in the publicity stakes,  so this is a stunt.  There will be more to come. 

I'm going to invest all my savings in the  Acme Tin Foil Hat Company.    I predict a sharp rise in demand.

Quote from: Silicon on January 25, 2016, 02:09:05 PM

Haven't seen this posted here yet

B.O.B the rapper w. his 2 million followers has been heating up headlines claiming the earth is flat.

This is getting picked up by major news organizations everywhere today and Neil deGrasse Tyson has been arguing with him

Another few hundred sub 80IQ Fe fantasists on the way because the horizon looked flat on a picture. No wonder FE cant gain traction when a majority of its promoters are the below 80 brigade.

Let me guess, you're a super genius roundy hanging out on a FE forum. Seems legit and makes a lot on sense.

You don't understand:  He has a HND(!) in electrical and mechanical engineering!

Quote from: getrealzommb on January 25, 2016, 02:14:35 PM

Quote from: Silicon on January 25, 2016, 02:09:05 PM

Haven't seen this posted here yet

B.O.B the rapper w. his 2 million followers has been heating up headlines claiming the earth is flat.

This is getting picked up by major news organizations everywhere today and Neil deGrasse Tyson has been arguing with him

Another few hundred sub 80IQ Fe fantasists on the way because the horizon looked flat on a picture. No wonder FE cant gain traction when a majority of its promoters are the below 80 brigade.

Let me guess, you're a super genius roundy hanging out on a FE forum. Seems legit and makes a lot on sense.

Self-deprecation at it's finest.

It seems that the situation has escalated to a full blown rap battle:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/01/26/464474518/neil-degrasse-tyson-gets-into-a-rap-battle-with-b-o-b-over-flat-earth-theory

You don't understand:  He has a HND(!) in electrical and mechanical engineering!

I know, right?

Next thing he'll be claiming he's a rocket scientist!

lolololololololololololololollololollolololololololololololollolololol!!11!1!1!111!!1!!!111!1!!

What a fraud you are...

You don't understand:  He has a HND(!) in electrical and mechanical engineering!

Who?  the voodoo troll,  or BOB?   

For anyone not in the UK,  HND is "Higher National Diploma"   Qualifies you to work at Maccas.

getrealzommb claimed to be able to destroy me in a Special Relativity debate because he has a HND in electrical and mechanical engineering.

For anyone not in the UK,  HND is "Higher National Diploma"   Qualifies you to work at Maccas.

Exactly.  Oh, and for anyone not in Australia, "Maccas" is McDonalds.

Reading BOB's tweets,  it looks like he's into the full on holohoax conspiracy thing as well.    That's going to blow up in his face. 

Seems to be going viral.   Here's a link to a google search of news stories on flat earth in the last 24 hours.

https://www.google.com.au/search?q=%2B%22flat+earth%22&num=100&newwindow=1&espv=2&biw=1095&bih=678&tbs=qdr:d,sbd:1&tbm=nws&source=lnt&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjjjoPutc3KAhWF3KYKHVW0BMwQpwUIFA&dpr=1.5

Quote from: Rayzor on January 27, 2016, 05:16:07 PM

For anyone not in the UK,  HND is "Higher National Diploma"   Qualifies you to work at Maccas.

Exactly.  Oh, and for anyone not in Australia, "Maccas" is McDonalds.

Just like being a 'rocket scientist' on secret government projects qualifies you to be a moderator on a flat earth forum...

In tehEnjinerr's Fantasy-World.

LOL!!!

Get back to JREF, psycho!

NGT keeps mentioning, -You can think whatever you want, but if you have influence over others, perpetuating these thoughts is dangerous to our citizenry-


No Niel its dangerous to the oligarchy,  but thanks for confirming how the club views us.

Isaac Newton, my man, said, 'If I have seen farther than others, it's by standing on the shoulders of giants.' Can I get an amen? 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!

He wins the debate, shutdown this site a go home. :-)

Pretty Lame.

So Everywhere I look it's flat earth. News.  Stories. Posts. Comments. You name it its Everywhere.

Only now it's the entire internet just like this site where Noobs say "betcha never thought of this!"

Can we clone Jroa?

Can we clone Jora?

It's jroa.  And no, the world has enough twats already.

I always admired Neil deGrasse Tyson for his clear logical explanations.   I have a new found respect for the man,  the way he did the all time classic "mic drop"  and that's gravity.  Shows he has a level of internet savvy, that left poor BoB,  in ruins.

Lovely to watch.

Edit,  I forgot the link....

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I know it was all for show, but I take issue with a few things he said (I only watched about 2 minutes of the 4-ish minute clip):

1. I don't know of any presidential candidate, ever, that has believed the Earth was flat. 
2. His demonstration was not of gravity, but of gravitation.
3. The Equivalence Principle states that #2 would have happened in a non inertial frame of reference, also and could not be distinguished. 

So this is all very telling for a person that just crapped all over someone for their statements 'when they have the ability to influence', and here is Tyson doing the exact same thing.

Umm...  Engy, you do realize that he was talking to a Comedy Central audience, don't you?

Yes, I do.  Ironically, the same people he was putting down in his skit (as you have alluded to with your comment), which they were all laughing to.  They were all having a good laugh at basically being called ignorant. 

Come now Engy, you know that no one with a life really cares about the gravity/gravitation debate.

Yes, and that drives to the heart of my point.

Tyson stated that we (as a nation) have become 'anti science' (paraphrasing here) and that we are basically all unintelligent.  He uses a clearly dumbed down example to prove a point (an incorrect one) to the very same people he just called unintelligent, to which they ate it up with uproarious laughter because he is a person with influence. He slams BOB for having an absurd position since he is a person with influence.  Tyson, then goes on to imply that there is a group of presidential candidates that also believe the Earth is flat.  An absurd statement, which he spouts as a person with influence.   Hypocritical.     

So, a "celeb" questions the round earth and a round earth "general" is trotted out?

I'll have to look in to the flat earth more deeply. Someone is worried...

So, a "celeb" questions the round earth and a round earth "general" is trotted out?

I'll have to look in to the flat earth more deeply. Someone is worried...

Welcome the the flat earth society,  so pleased that you've discovered the forum,  take your time to read the flat-earth wiki,  it will answer most of your questions.

Good luck with your research.

Tyson, then goes on to imply that there is a group of presidential candidates that also believe the Earth is flat.  An absurd statement, which he spouts as a person with influence.   Hypocritical.     

I interpreted that as saying some presidential candidates are "anti-science"   Isn't Trump a climate change denier?

Quote from: legion on January 30, 2016, 02:55:40 PM

So, a "celeb" questions the round earth and a round earth "general" is trotted out?

I'll have to look in to the flat earth more deeply. Someone is worried...

Welcome the the flat earth society,  so pleased that you've discovered the forum,  take your time to read the flat-earth wiki,  it will answer most of your questions.

Good luck with your research.

Quote from: Engineer

Tyson, then goes on to imply that there is a group of presidential candidates that also believe the Earth is flat.  An absurd statement, which he spouts as a person with influence.   Hypocritical.     

I interpreted that as saying some presidential candidates are "anti-science"   Isn't Trump a climate change denier?

Ben Carson denies there is an Earth, I think.