These astronauts had some wonderful responses to a rapper who thinks the Earth is flat
Last month Rapper B.o.B started a GoFundMe campaign to raise a million dollars to “launch one, if not multiple, satellites into space,” to prove the Earth is round and not, as he currently believes, flat.
https://twitter.com/bobatl/status/691411463051804676
Luckily for him, a number of astronauts were happy to save him both time and money – step forward former Space Shuttle pilot and commander of the International Space Station, Terry Virts.
I can save BoB a lot of money- The Earth is round. I flew around it. https://t.co/F7qAovPEng @bobatl @BBCWorld
— Terry Virts (@AstroTerry) September 27, 2017
Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, also added some thoughts.
I did too. It's called an orbit: the curved path of a celestial object around a star, planet, or moon. https://t.co/h8GQJadfxD
— Dr. Buzz Aldrin (@TheRealBuzz) September 27, 2017
Former Space Shuttle mission commander Scott Kelly provided a video.
Show you the curve? Here you go @bobatl! One full orbit around Earth. Maybe donate funds raised to #PuertoRicoRelief https://t.co/bhJSXfwYXL pic.twitter.com/rFAysS2clc
— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) September 27, 2017
It wasn’t just astronauts, other people with brains also helped out B.o.B.
@bobatl 16 miles is 0.06% of the earth's circumference, you can't expect to see the curvature of earth in that distance
— Sam Prudence (@Sam_Prudence) January 25, 2016
Not everyone was so quick to ridicule.
.@bobatl I thought this guy was high, then I found the compelling evidence. SHIT. pic.twitter.com/OpjE6q641A
— CanadianBlakeman (@Hirsutable) January 25, 2016
All this negativity (and logic) wasn’t enough to stop B.o.B’s plan, which certainly isn’t a scam.
That‘s absolutely right!
„Don‘t touch the stove, it‘s really hot!“
– „Ahhh, that must be where you keep the gold then!“
🙄
— Paul Kautz (@pkautz) September 30, 2017