In one of the strangest music stories in recent memory, Atlanta rap hitmaker B.o.B. recently posted a long string of conspiracy-theory tweets about how the earth is actually flat, not round. (He also believes that powerful interests are trying to keep you from realizing just how flat the earth is.) It's easy to dismiss this as attention-grabbing trolling, especially since B.o.B. just dropped a new mixtape, but his Twitter musings are so strange and sincere and extensive that we might have to believe that he actually believes this stuff. (Mental illness seems like a real possibility here, which makes the whole thing a bit less funny.) When B.o.B. was off on that tangent yesterday, scientist and celebrity factchecker Neil DeGrasse Tyson jumped on Twitter to debunk some of his claims:
https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/692092680680120321
