A rapper believes in a flat Earth
But photos show it has a fat girth
So Tyson completes
A rap of his tweets
We all can appreciate that mirth
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?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=plus.google.com&utm_medium=social
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When we let politics trump science, people are needlessly put in harm's way. http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/self-censoring-fears...
Sarah Lester Apparently it's a Biblical thing - I guess the Book of Somethingorother says "Yep it's flat" (paraphrased), so there is a segment of the population that just believes this regardless of any evidence to the contrary.
ReplyDeleteScott Parker, it's not even a biblical thing. It's one of the newer conspiracy theories out there (as far as I've found). It's closer to pseudo-science than religion-based. A friend just sent this to me today trying to convince me:
ReplyDeletehttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qu37-A_S-I
At work now, so haven't had a chance to watch it, but it's out there.
The bible alternately describes the Earth as a disc or a square (the four corners of the Earth). It's understandable considering most people of the time hadn't traveled far and science wasn't as big among the writers of ancient Hebrew scripture as it was among the Greeks (who actually measured the diameter of the Earth back about 200 bce).
ReplyDeleteThe odd thing about B.o.B and his ilk is that they are literally using the roundness of the Earth to communicate their hypothesis (it's not a Theory) to the rest of the world. Without satellites there would be no world-wide internet, cell phones or TV....and GPS wouldn't even have been invented. These people are either willfully ignorant or yankin' our collective chain.
I put them in the same boat as the anti-vax group. Smart enough to be skeptical of things, but not well versed enough in science to see the truth.
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