After rapper B.o.B. took to Twitter.com to inform his millions of followers that the earth is flat, prominent astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson weighed in by dropping science and facts on B.o.B.
“Earth’s curve indeed blocks 150 (not 170) ft of Manhattan. But most buildings in midtown are waaay taller than that,” Tyson tweeted. “Polaris is gone by 1.5 deg S. Latitude. You’ve never been south of Earth’s Equator, or if so, you’ve never looked up. Duude — to be clear: Being five centuries regressed in your reasoning doesn’t mean we all can’t still like your music.”
Not to be deterred, B.o.B. rushed to a studio after midnight to record a diss track featuring none other than Tyson himself speaking at a science conference.
Basically what Tyson says is the earth is not a perfectly round sphere — but we already know that. He said the earth is shaped more like a pear — which makes sense if we know the earth is not perfectly round.
Tyson’s speech still shoots massive holes in the rapper’s distorted theories. But that’s the thing with schizophrenics; even when you hit them with facts, they still think they won the argument.
Listen to “Flatline” below, courtesy of Gawker.com.
The lyrics are courtesy of Genius.com.
Yo, you ain’t seen my best
Checkmate, ain’t a game of chess
Globalists see me as a threat
Free thinking, got the world at my neck
Hah, am I paranoid? Picture Malcolm X
In a room full of pigs, trying not to bust a sweat
Aye, Neil Tyson need to loosen up his vest
They’ll probably write that man one hell of a check
Aye, I’m over here on this side of town
Come on over, over, over, over here try to clown
Aye, I never pipe down
If they weren’t coming for me then
They definitively coming for me now
I can’t even keep my phone charged up
All this shit I’m talking, I should get my
Rappers get off of my dick, get your own bars up
Now the mirror lizard’s breath got the clones scared cuz
Woo, use your, use your common sense
Why is NASA department of defense?
They divided up the seas into thirty-three degrees
Feeding kids masonry, bruh, be careful what you readHook 1
Flat line, flat line
There’s no superior blood line
Flat line, flat line
You got me once but that died, ayeVerse 2
Voice, voice, do I have a voice?
Do I give a fuck? Do I have a choice?
Joint, joint, I roll up a joint
Keep my shooters in the game like I hate to disappoint
I see only good things on the horizon
That’s probably why the horizon is always rising
Indoctrinated in a cult called science
And graduated to a club full of liars
Heliocentrism, you were the sixth victim
Fuck you and your team, you could sit on the bench with ‘em
But before you try to curve it, do your research on David Irving
Stalin was way worse than Hitler
That’s why the POTUS gotta wear a Kipper
I’m a man first ‘fore an artist
Get a lawyer, look up Doctor Richard [?]Hook 2
Flat line, flat line
You fooled us for the last time
Flat line, flat line
There’s no superior blood lineNeil Tyson speaking
So you want to find farthest point from that center. And it turns out sea level from the equator is farther away from the center of the Earth than sea level at the poles. It has nothing to do with global warming and melting of the ice caps
(Why is that?)
Because we…Earth we know it spins, once uh…a day. Yes thank you. Three people know, uh, how long a day lasts here
(Good for row number two, they’re off to a great start)
So you, you know when you spin pizza dough it kind of flattens out. It gets wider in the middle…so Earth throughout it’s life, Earth, even when it formed, it was spinning. And it got a little wider at the equator that it does at the poles. So it’s not actually a sphere, it’s oblate, it’s officially an oblate spheroid
But not only that, it’s slightly wider below the equator than above the equator
(A little chubbier?)
Little chubbier, chubby’s a good word, it’s like pear-shaped. It turns out the pear-shapedness is a bigger than the height of mount Everest above sea level
Hook 2
Flat line, flat line
You fooled us for the last time
Flat line, flat line
There’s no superior blood line
Dead
Photo of B.o.B.: Xavier Collin/Image Press/Splash
