In casing you needed a monitor , yes we are in the yr 2017 , and yes there are the great unwashed that think Earth is flat .
And not just your even " Mad Mike " graphic symbol . Oh no , a number of celebrities in the retiring few years have occur out in party favour of the flakey theory .
From basketball players to player , a number of celebrities are jumping on the monotonous Earth bandwagon . You ’d hope that most of these are n’t actually being serious but , hey , a mood change denier is presently President of the United States . Anything goes it seems .
So here are a few celebrities who , for one reason or another , have give tongue to the view that they think the Earth is insipid . I ’m bet forward to seeing what exciting conspiracy theory makes its direction into the public mainstream in 2018 .
Kyrie Irving
Kyrie Irving is the celebrity that arguably set about this late binge of 2-dimensional Earthness . In early 2017 , the Cleveland Cavaliers ' safety gadget said he thought Earth was flat .
" This is not even a conspiracy hypothesis , " he saidin February . " The Earth is flat . The Earth is flat . It ’s right in front of our face . I ’m telling you , it ’s right in front of our faces . They rest to us . "
Irving doubled down on his beliefs multiple times . But in September , he claimed that the whole thing had just been a " social experiment " , and he had spin the world " into a hysteria " .
So , it was all just a joke ? I infer . Haha . Very rum .
Sammy Watkins / Draymond Green / Wilson Chandler / Shaquille O’Neal
Irving may have been joking , but that did n’t stop a number of other basketball game players come out in support of the flat Earth theory .
Los Angeles Rams receiver Sammy Watkins supposedlyalso believesEarth is flat , although mayhap he was in on the " joke " too .
There ’s also Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green , who pronounce he did n’t know if the Earth was savorless , " but it could be " .
And there ’s Denver Nuggets forward Wilson Chandler , who in Februarytweeted : " I agree with him " in answer to a now - deleted tweet about Irving .
Shaquille O’Neal , too , alsogot knotty , afterwards claiming he had beenjokingthat he cogitate the Earth was bland .
Who ’s being truthful ? Is anything real ? Is Earth really flat ? ! I just do n’t make love .
B.o . Bel
" A lot of mass are change by reversal off by the set phrase ‘ level terra firma ’ … but there ’s no way u can see all the evidence and not cognise … grow up , " hesaid .
" No matter how mellow in elevation you are … the sensible horizon is always eye level … sorry cadets … I did n’t wanna believe it either . ”
This led to a now rather infamous " blame battle " with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson , who took it upon himself to debunk most of B.o . B ’s musings .
Yes , B.o . B could have been joking too . But a cursory glimpse at his Twitter provender suggests that ’s believably not the case .
Just a few days ago , for exemplar , he sent this freakish tweet : " now realize that there is no earth … there is only now . " Yep .
He shot to the fore again in September , when he was ostensibly seek money for a crowdfunding campaign tosend a satellite into orbitand tryout if Earth was flavourless .
That looks like it might have beenfake , however , so perhaps B.o . B will never get the answers he ’s seeking .
Tila Tequila
I ’m not 100 percent absolved on who Tila Tequila is , lease alone how she became famous . I hear it has something to do withMyspace , but hey , patently she ’s a celebrity .
And last year , she made headlines ( again ? ) when sherepeatedly tweetedthat she cerebrate Earth was flat , and wanted someone to tweet her grounds it was n’t .
" I WILL STOP MY # FLATEARTH TALK IF SOMEONE CAN SEND ME A GOD DAMN PHOTO OF THE HORIZON WITH A CURVATURE ! " she eloquently wrote . Lovely .
Shealso queriedwhy buildings in New York would stand straight up , rather than sway , if Earth was round . Please do n’t make me explain why this is n’t the case .
by from thinking Earth is 2-dimensional , the Trump champion also appears to have some refutable views in party favor of Hitler , and has been pictured make aNazi saluteat a far - right rally . How prissy .
Freddie Flintoff
Those of you in the US might not know who Freddie Flintoff is , but here in the UK he ’s a somewhat famous cricketer who was subservient in England ’s frustration of Australia in the2005 Ashes series .
He might be good at cricket , but it appear he ’s not that good at science . Speaking on a podcast for BBC 5 Live in the UK last week , he expressed some ratherbizarre viewsand said there was grounds indicate the world was n’t round .
" If you ’re in a helicopter and you hover , why does the Earth not fall to you if it ’s round ? " he asked his co - hosts . The response , dear Freddie , is relativity theory .
He also did n’t understand why water stay still if we were hurtling through outer space ( solemnity ) , and why you could see a optical maser that you burn down into the distance . Not sure what he ’s go on about here .
" The middle is the North Pole , around the exterior is the South Pole which is like a adult wall of glass , " he say . " This is why all government activity now have groundwork on the South Pole . "
I , uh … okay . I see .
A. J. Styles / Sherri Shepherd
" I do n’t think the world is unconditional , I ’m just say there ’s some stuff about it , " he said earlier this year . " That ’s all . I ’m not a flat earther . I ’m just say there ’s some things about it that make sense . "
Uh huh .
When asked if the world was matt by Whoopi Goldberg , she responded : " I do n’t hump . I never guess about it Whoopi . Is the creation flat ? I never thought about it . I tell you what I thought about , how I ’m going to feed my baby . "
But it goes to show that , when it come to Earth being flat , you ’re probably best to stick on the side of science .
