It was more than a year ago that rapper B.o.B. — best known for his songs “Nothin’ on You” and “Airplanes” — told his 2.3 million Twitter followers that the Earth was flat.
(That even prompted a response from Neil deGrasse Tyson.)
So what was B.o.B. saying during today’s solar eclipse?
A lot. None of it peer-reviewed or published. For example, he claimed the moon generates its own light (it doesn’t), blamed the Hindu God Rahu for causing the eclipse (the myth says he swallows the sun),
it's so amazingly beautiful how the moon can pass in front of the sun multiple times in one day #FknScienceBro
— B.o.B (@bobatl) August 21, 2017
It's so amazingly beautiful how the moon isn't visible before and after a total solar eclipse #SolarEclipse17 #FknScienceBro
— B.o.B (@bobatl) August 21, 2017
— B.o.B (@bobatl) August 21, 2017
according to a textbook yes, but the moon actually generates its own light https://t.co/PyUO2SHdmf
— B.o.B (@bobatl) August 21, 2017
a spherical object doesn't reflect/refract light evenly across its surface https://t.co/q8wYLhapqF
— B.o.B (@bobatl) August 21, 2017
phase or no phase the same rules apply https://t.co/BsD2CMkaBE
— B.o.B (@bobatl) August 21, 2017
that same blue dot appeared on everyone's pics… it's not the moon https://t.co/jczkWGcee9
— B.o.B (@bobatl) August 21, 2017
this was taken by me during the eclipse … how is the moon blocking the sun if it's way down there pic.twitter.com/A1LGEz2LWG
— B.o.B (@bobatl) August 21, 2017
It's not me , it's your cognitive dissonance… first stage of grief is usually anger https://t.co/WvZV68h98j
— B.o.B (@bobatl) August 21, 2017
Density https://t.co/wzAhVpI4ge
— B.o.B (@bobatl) August 21, 2017
To those who urge him to learn some science, he left an opening:
tell me the authors and publishers of all your physics books and I'll consider https://t.co/B37XIk6LAZ
— B.o.B (@bobatl) August 21, 2017
And to those who wonder where he gets all this ignorance from, he offered the most plausible argument to date:
i spill alphabet soup onto the floor and write whatever words form https://t.co/cnIAKI9fP1
— B.o.B (@bobatl) August 21, 2017
If only that were true… because the alternative is horrifying.
(via Vulture)