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IamLurkerforwearemany
Someone needs to snag B.O.B one of those racecar fuel mtn dews.....make him smarterer
Denamic
Black Science Man knows his things
irritabletom
Who is this Robert fellow and why do we care about his thoughts on the shape of the Earth?
JovialBard
Retards tell their friends to hold their beer. Scientists tell their friends to hold their sandwiches.
housev1l
I don't understand where all this flat Earth response stuff is coming from.
mattbl
Mr Brown: Mr. Brown. Michael: Ah. Oh, right! OK. First test. I will not call you that. Mr. Brown: Well, it's my name. It's not a test.
Reemy420
What is truly stupid is listening to them explain how ships sail around the globe if it is flat.
thoushaltnotpass
By having to justify ridiculous things like gravity and round-earthing, NdGT gives BOB way more exposure than he deserves.
eggmuffin
Who?
TarmoSiik
NdGT also gives himself some exposure in the process
ohthechestpain
What is B.O.B?
EvilOtter
What about B.o.B.?
fizixx
Bring your Own Brain
Gman122
Someone get B.O.B. a stretcher, 'cause i think he just flatlined.
Zediach
http://imgur.com/HXR8aUU
Oscill8s
+1 for Alan Watts
dkd1234
B.o.B just wants attention. He just wants to be relevant again. Expect an album release soon.
JohnathanJacobJinglySchmidt
NGD also just wants attention
keyserv
Neil that mic didn't deserve that.
McBook
Prob-ably a prop
mcguganator
I feel like it would be easy to explain this to someone like BoB by just drawing a computer generated circle and zooming in until it's flat
d240vergara
The whole flat earth is seriously still around? Or is it just a joke
quantumconsciousnesswasbanned
Neil deGrasse Tyson has no chill.. mic drop
soobuwu
ZookeeperRachel
Hello friend
zookeeperispaidinpeanuts
Yay! Zookeeper friend!
AmericanWhorerStory
Hold my sandwich while I science
planetarysociety
ghsdkgb
Username makes me wonder if this was actually Bill Nye posting this
GarikFaceLoran
I believe it's someone who works at the Planetary Society in which Bill Nye is the CEO.
ghsdkgb
Thus, Bill Nye works at the Planetary Society, hence my wonder.
Cammo353
Why is there never a source
zookeeperispaidinpeanuts
Source is in the description. Doesn't always show up on mobile. But here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYO9rrd7FPI
DontPurpleRainOnMyParade
As an Australian I only know NdGT through Imgur, so this is my first time hearing his voice. Oh man it's silky and amazing!
Vectorman2
The Larry Wilmore show is still on? Good for him...
flippywizgig
It's gotten a bit better. Feels like they're moving away from TDS's format.
PRC21
Every show and I mean every show is about race. It got old.
SocialMediaMakesUsLessSocial
Deal with it. No but srsly, society gives too much fodder for it lately that it's hard to avoid..
Vectorman2
Every other late night host seems to do a fairly decent job of avoiding it (or at least not spending entire shows on it)
tsubakimkiii
Good for him, sucks for us
ncozy
Seriously question: What do flat earthers believe is on the other side of the earth if it's flat?
Landwelder
Serious answer: From personal experience, I don't know. From bible/quaran and all that religious jazz - 'The Great Deep'.
Landwelder
In short and very laymen term, everything was water. God made a bubble, in the midst of waters and created the heaven and Earth inside it
Landwelder
Really crazy stuff, but certainly interesting when you dig deeper and ask questions about flat earth how it would actually work.
lemjau
Turtles. Turtles all the way down.
Koga73
When you are at a condo on the beach and look off the balcony at the horizon it clearly curves. You can see close to 180 degrees.
Taikwin
Stop giving attention to stupid people.
krokoschoko
That's harsh, Neil isn't stupid, just attention seeking.
Kezo2K11
He wasn't referring to Neil...OB-viOUslyyyy...R.I.P. Alan Rickman....
cakenuggets
To be fair, i'm pretty certain that's his job now.
JohnathanJacobJinglySchmidt
Its getting very annoying. I'll listen to him on astrophysics, maybe one or two other sciences, but that's about it. Definitely not politics
TheManFromIdaho
Who the hell is this even directed to? I haven't heard any one in modern times claim the earth is flat.
TossABabyYodaToYourWitcher
Go to BoB's Twitter page. And theflatearthsociety.org
ChevN7
https://m.facebook.com/Flat-Earth-Matters-439175856282154/ Enjoy :)
Vectorman2
So this is pretty much that red starbucks cup thing all over again? Must be a slow news day.
TheManFromIdaho
I had just ignored the link since it was from facebook.
MandaloreTheODST
Sauce
zookeeperispaidinpeanuts
It's in the description, but if it's not showing up...
zookeeperispaidinpeanuts
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/rca4i7/the-nightly-show-with-larry-wilmore-neil-degrasse-tyson-slams-flat-earth-theorist-b-o-b
HulluSteve
"This video is not available from your location." Well FUCK YOU and your sources.
HulluSteve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HsCnrZWm-s
Bloodgroup
Wait, are there really people that think the earth is flat?
Kimbongpal
Saudi Arabia just admitted it a few years ago and only because a prince went into space and was able to confirm it...true story
JamesAQuintero
Not nearly enough for there to be this big controversy right now like there is.
GeoTeacher
I have met people that honestly believe the sun goes around the earth. It's baffling
Kezo2K11
Wait....This is a thing now!?, what....What, WHAT!?
Squidhatjenkins
Sadly yes. Check out their website if you dare: http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/cms/
DisgruntledFerret
Yeah, apparently there's a southern rapper named Bob or something who had an argument with Tyson over it on Twitter over it, causing this.
ronnieotts
whoa whoa whoa, lets not bring "southern" into this shit!
Mitchz95
Yep. http://www.tfes.org/
filip00
There are people believing in invisible miracle working gods, nothing should surprise you these days anymore...trump is almost a president..
Welley
It's not really the god thing, I understand why men believe in god(s). What baffles me is that men STILL believe in god(s) in todays society
filip00
What baffles me is the fact that someone downvotes us for not believing. May Cthulhu devour them.
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SocialMediaMakesUsLessSocial
I really respected him as one of the few rappers to talk on real issues but he's been going off on the deep end acting paranoid and shit..
Bloodgroup
That makes my brain hurt
ItTastesLikePurple
What I don't get about the flat earth conspiracy is just...who benefits from that kind of conspiracy?
ThatOtherTShirt
Atheists. Round earth would make old testament obsolete. That´s the reason they think theres a conspiracy going on.
frjackhackett
the reptilians.. thing is tho they've got it all wrong, the earth's not flat at all, it's a big hollow ball and we're on the inside surface
Americanjedi2099
Leafy?
frjackhackett
yea it's got trees and things
Babybunz
The curved sneaker lobby.
swatz
I assumed it was a troll that put some shit on facebook, and people just kept laughing and sharing until someone somewhere thought it <
swatz
>needed a response, and believe those people are out there. I think it's either a joke, or a big misunderstanding. But I have some family<
swatz
>that would probably believe it, just because they'll believe anything you don't want them to really think about, so I worry a little.
icameinlikeafeckingball
Well, the basic idea is that every scientist ever since Copernicus has just presumed the Earth to be round, because Coppy worked it (1)
icameinlikeafeckingball
out mathematically but never really provided any real proof (correct me if I’m wrong but I believe he actually did), and ofc he was a (2)
icameinlikeafeckingball
revolutionary because before him everyone thought the Earth was flat (actually very few people have thought that since Aristotle), but (3)
icameinlikeafeckingball
nvm all these other scientists just jumped on Coppy’s bandwagon without any actual proof until NASA went to the moon and saw that (4)
icameinlikeafeckingball
the Earth was actually flat, which ofc they decided to spend a shitton of money and effort on to cover up because every scientist in (5)
strcmdman
Flat minders.
Sheepyhead
The people selling their books
moto192834
it's put B.O.B. in the spotlight (with a new mixtape out) after years of hearing nothing about him.
lvluffin
The people on the bottom of the earth. Finally they wi get the recognition they deserve.
hellfrogger
This was my question and the answer can be: the gubbmint is hiding what's on the bottom of the world. Maybe lizard rulers.
newcow
Globe manufacturers and their lobbyists
DoctorPitt
My question is if it were flat then why are there no pictures of the edge from the point of view of standing over the edge.
andyskeels
Magnets.
QTMcWhiskers
Because the conspiracy suggests that NASA are the keepers of the secret and manage to hide the edge.
ItTastesLikePurple
That's too logical of a question to ask, because then it's easy to bullshit a response. I'm mostly curious on motivation: the true unknown.
Shannerwren
Or ancient paintings? Vacation spots? Surely, there would pilgrimages to the edge just to throw things over it from virgins to bouncy balls.
kayleo
B.O.B. benefits because now people are talking about him.
reflectedsoundofundergroundspirits
Who or what is B.O.B.?
derpSlurp
Dagrfinn
Never heard of B.O.B. before this.
mikemill
Same. Still figuring out why anyone cares.
eggmuffin
They no longer exist. Goonswarm kicked them out of Providence back in 2013. They've gone by two or three new names since then.
Harmonex
Maybe he was just lonely.
Sauroctonus
I dunno about you guys, but no matter how much I talk about someone who thinks the Earth is flat, I'm never going to buy his music.
kayleo
Any publicity is good publicity.
Quagtatious
Exactly. So many troll victims for a community that spends so much time on the internet. Bet BoB is sore from laughter
TheButtyProfessor
I read NASA benefits from it, that they are one big money laundering scheme and they just pay off all the 'actornauts' to keep it quiet
geckomama
Also for weapons research and overall control of the masses, allegedly
user82650
Seems like there should be easier ways to launder money. Ones that don't involve inventing a completely different model of the universe and/
user82650
hiding the real one from everyone for thousands of years.
TheButtyProfessor
Yeah, but critical thought isn't really the strong point of anyone doubting the earth bring a sphere
Poopypandapantaloons
Questions I have gor flat-earthers: 1) Is the sun flat too? 2) Do you believe in atoms? 3)WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?
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johnson21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNqNnUJVcVs
Karilyn
③ able to see the buildings, and concluded the Earth must be flat instead of double-checking his math and finding his error. I don't know
SingleNiceFedoraWearingClassyGuycautiondonotfriendzone
There is maybe one "flat-earther" on all of Imgur
LordBinz
Yeah, and he is too embarrassed to comment here.
Glamdring
One of my roommates is a conspiracy theorist and flat earther and we have debates about this. The general theory is that the earth is 1/3
Glamdring
flat and disc shaped with all of the countries radiating from the center which is the north pole. The UN flag is a confirmation 2/3
Glamdring
of this conspiracy, the sun and moon are thought to be 2~4000 miles above the earth and rotate around it.
Karilyn
② in New York City skyline from where he lives, and had some math errors, and determined that based on the Earth's diameter he should not be
SuperfluousTurbulence
"The sun's not even there. It's just your neighbor, looking for 'coons."
Karilyn
① In the case of BOB, it's mostly poor math execution. I looked up what he said, he did some trigonometry based on the height of builidings
BewareTheIceSpiders
I dont believe in the sun, its just the back of the moon.
HolyHeartBadger
I'm watching Scrubs for the first time ever, and I saw that episode last night.
MarshmallowFluffernutterPie
The sun is a spotlight that shines around the disk of the earth in a circle, with the north pole in the middle and the south being >
MarshmallowFluffernutterPie
a wall of ice around the edges that the spotlight doesn't pass fully over during each sweep, hence the 6 month days on the poles. >
MarshmallowFluffernutterPie
Gravity is supposedly caused by the disk always rising upwards at 9m/s^2, too. Flat earthers are stupid.
Darklinkinfinite
So much of our modern knowledge and technology is based on the world being round that I'm sure flat-earthers are unaware of 1/2
Darklinkinfinite
2/2it seems like they just came up with a stupid explanation for day/night and called it a night without realizing how much else is involved
Slania312
Yes, yes and...yes.
reflectedsoundofundergroundspirits
1) No. It rotates over the disc and under Great A'Tuin. 2) Atoms are Round Earth's answer to magic (physicists are Wizzards). 3) Not a thing
mistermojojojo
All hail Gor Flat-Earthers
TheFeralDog
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/cms/ checkmate round earthers....(not serous fyi)
DougForcett
Of course the Sun is flat. Just a big circle in the sky, yellowish orange on bright side and pale blue on the dark side. Use your eyes.
ChemicalPunk
Wait this isn't a joke?
SuperNintendoChalmers2
They think the sun is a spotlight.
Snooj
I believe the Earth is round but we live on the inside wall. With a strong enough telescope you can see to the other side.
JeepFreak1941
My old GM is a flat Earther. Whether it's true or not it made work go by and gave us something to debate for a week or two.
Cereaza
Sun is a sort of spotlight floating around in the upper parts of our atmosphere. And it doesn't necessarily have to be flat.
ChuckTingleBattlesTheAssGoblinsofAuschwitz
And it's 2,500 miles away. (Read a Vice article)
emberfish
EVERYTHING'S ON A COB! WE GOTTA GET OUTTA HERE!
Sighhhh
There's a couple of them at my work. I made them this /a/UDr48
Cereaza
And I have NO idea what they think is going on at the (sub)atomic level.
reflectedsoundofundergroundspirits
If someone believes in a flat Earth, they aren't aware of anything happening on the subatomic level, let alone on a macro scale.
Cereaza
The real shocking thing to me is that to believe in a flat earth is to believe that literally MILLIONS of People are in on the conspiracy.
Cereaza
Every engineer. Every physicist. Every astronaut. Every President. Every Satellite Tech. Is hiding the truth.... How!?
reflectedsoundofundergroundspirits
I'm really skeptical about anyone not from a third world country actually, truly, honestly believing that.
ImgurMontoya
1.) The sun is a lie 2.) Atoms were created by the government to hide the aliens from us 3.) I drank a gallon of Tap water from Flint
catsandcoke
Dinosaur bones were put there to test your faith
calebvonb
I produced a hearty chuckle to the third point
Naseth
That last one really just ties it all together
dougpeck
I thought the moon was just the back of the sun.. I have additional questions.
broverdose
the best part about this comment is thats probably exactly what a flat earther would tell you
koreth
Having had the misfortune of drinking the tap water in Flint while passing through on a road trip, I can confirm, 'tis nasty stuff.
TotallynotFlint
:(
Willis1magillis2
R.I.P
ImgurMontoya
It's ok, I liked it. It tasted like the paint from my grandmas house
CaptainAshBacon
If the earth is flat, what's off the edge?
CAPSLOCKENGAGE117
That's not the theory really, it's that we are a pond amongst more ponds, beyond Antarctica
bluefacepaint
A giant dome upon which the sky is painted. Not even kidding. That's what they think.
CAPSLOCKENGAGE117
No not all of them
ThatOtherTShirt
This is THE...FUNNIEST...CONVERSATITION with a flat-earther I have seen in my life. Watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsOz_J6tJVU
ThisIsGod
iT'S TURTLES! TURTLES! TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN AND YOU CAN'T CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE!!
mycatToastwasafatasshole
You heard it, straight from God!
FSMPirate
Lies! There are also 4 elephants! (once a fifth, that's another story though)
reflectedsoundofundergroundspirits
This guy knows.
reflectedsoundofundergroundspirits
Not plural. Just the one. Great A'tuin. And you're not GOD. You're just The Builder.
ThisIsGod
It's a quote from a lady who yelled at Stephen Hawking like 15-20 years ago.
reflectedsoundofundergroundspirits
Ah. Did not know that. What was she on about?
ThisIsGod
Something about how gravity isnt real and when questioned as to what held the Earth up, that was her response.
ThisIsGod
Oh, I was slightly wrong. I read it in Hawkings book like 12 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down
aBastardNoLonger
Question: how many flat-earthers are there in actual existence? People act like this is some pandemic of Ignorance but I've never seen/
Highfarm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g84g2KJcUV0 Unfortunately there are these guys too
aBastardNoLonger
Anyone besides obvious trolls who actually believed that. I'm sure there're a few whacko cults out there but that's gotta be it.
Highfarm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g84g2KJcUV0 if by whacko cults you mean Islam, you're right
EugeneMeltsner
More than you know. I only know about them because they keep sending questions on the topic to a YouTube channel I watch.
Harmonex
I was at a park and this hipster-looking guy walked up with a girl and he was loudly talking about the flat earth, chemtrails, and Idiocracy
Harmonex
I was people-watching with a girl and I was like "Holy shit, I've only ever seen them on the Internet. Here's one in the wild!"
Goronhead
After I heard about this whole thing, I found a video agreeing with BOB and calling Tyson and another guy shills, and the comments agreed...
Goronhead
In other words, entirely too many.
Karilyn
④ which is worse; what BOB did, or Columbus making the exact same error with the Eiffel Tower and concluding Earth was half it's real size.
stokedgoat
Columbus might have just said that crap to get people to crew his ships.
aBastardNoLonger
Eh... What? Is this whole thread of your comments made up nonsense or are you only 50% stupid. And who is BOB?
Karilyn
The Eiffel Tower mistake on the other hand was because I was very sleepy at the time I posted. I can't remember the correct building name.
Karilyn
If you don't know who B.O.B. is, you might wanna reread the OP. He's the guy Neil deGrasse was lecturing in the post.
KungFugazi
I don't know if you're being sarcastic. But Columbus didn't think the earth wasnt flat, and the eiffel tower wasn't built until the 1880's.
Karilyn
②He nearly killed his entire crew by denying scientists of his time who had the accurately calculated the size of the Earth within 50 miles.
KungFugazi
Sorry, * didn't think the earth 'was' flat
Karilyn
I didn't say he thought the earth was flat. He thought the earth was half the diameter it really is. And sorry, got the wrong building name.
Karilyn
If anyone remembers WTF the building was that Christopher Columbus did bad math with, I'd be grateful for it.
KungFugazi
Possibly you are thinking of the leaning tower of Pisa