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Yet more celebrities have admitted that they believe the Earth is actually flat

Rob Waugh
Metro
Mon, 20 Mar 2017 14:53 UTC

Basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal is the latest celebrity to admit that he believes that the Earth is flat - joining a bafflingly large list of famous people who believe the conspiracy theory.

Is it a new trend - like having a dog you can fit in your handbag?

'Shaq' joins fellow NBA star Kyrie Irving and others as he said on his podcast, 'I drive from Florida to California all the time, and it's flat to me. I do not go up and down at a 360-degree angle, and all that stuff about gravity.

'Have you looked outside Atlanta lately and seen all these buildings? You mean to tell me that China is under us? China is under us? It's not. The world is flat.'

Former WWE wrestling star AJ Styles said - in the wake of comments by Kyrie Irving - that the theory shouldn't be discounted.

Styles said, 'I'm not a 'flat-earther. I'm just saying there is some stuff about it that makes sense. I don't think you can handle it.'

NBA star Kyrie Irving said in a podcast, 'This is not even a conspiracy theory. The Earth is flat... I'm telling you, it's right in front of our faces. They lie to us.'

Other NBA players came out in support of him, with the Golden State Warriors Draymond Green saying: 'I can make a round picture with my iPhone today on the panorama camera and make it look round.

'So, I don't know. I'm not saying I think it's flat or round. I don't know but it could be.'

Scarily, the internet is full of people who believe the earth is really, genuinely flat - inspired by bonkers YouTube channels and weird e-books.

Many are not religious fundamentalists - or mad - but instead believe that we're victims of a massive conspiracy, orchestrated by NASA, to fool people into believing the Earth is round.

And celebrities believe it, too - and they're not all as eccentric as former reality star Tila Tequila (remember, the one who was kicked off Celeb Big Brother for posing in front of Auschwitz?).

Last year, rapper B.o.B. - aka Bobby Ray Simmons Jr - revealed that he thought the Earth was actually flat.

Simmons said, 'No matter how high in elevation you are...the horizon is always eye level...sorry cadets...I didn't wanna believe it either,' he wibbled.

'Don't believe what I say, research what I say. I'm going up against the greatest liars in history ... you've been tremendously deceived.'

The original Flat Earth Society fizzled out after the Soviets launched Sputnik - a satellite which reappeared at intervals and seemed to prove the Earth was round - but a new, defiant group of Flat Earthers have reappeared on the Flat Earth forums.

The forums are adamant the Earth is flat - but very emphatic about the fact that it IS NOT carried through space on the back of a giant turtle.

Reader Comments

ZeroDivide · 2017-03-20T15:29:36Z

These people are entertaining.. If you are bored enough to sit through any of those silly videos, you do occasionally find something that is odd/interesting, but ultimately, it seems they are all incapable of understanding exactly how f'n large the Earth really is..

But I will say they take it to a point that leaves one no other choice but to build your own satellite in order to capture pictures of the curvature.. Per their logic, nothing can be trusted, hence one needs to go to space.. but even then, this could only satisfy the single flatty that built it!

Anna1 · 2017-03-20T20:50:16Z

ZeroDivide The Earth might appear large but when you visualise it from a distance it appears entirely insignificant in infinity.

Meanwhile, the story of Earth appears timeless and our dramas seem to echo through-out the Universe.

Anna1 · 2017-03-20T16:58:57Z

Celebrities are imprinted in a 2-d world of many dpi per frame. Many of have invested so much of their image, soul, heart and mind in this world. That is a lot of themself to lose to a different dimension. Nevertheless, they get a finite world to experience, packed full of extreme stories, ad nauseam.

Luckily many of us, live on a higher plane geared for ascension up the dimensional ladder, rather than down.

Jean Michel · 2017-03-20T17:32:56Z

I seriously cant wrap my head around this concept. (pun intended)

How in the hell would gravity work to create a flat plane in the vacuum of space?

Don't people understand the the sphere is the most economical of structures?

If the Earth were flat, you would have to have gravitational forces that only work on two vectors, top and bottom. That way the debris in space would congregate and and form into a flat plane.

But what would keep it from thinning to the point of being to fragile to support weight?

So does this disk that the Earth is supposedly shaped like, according to these whackadoos, have flat edges like a coin or does it come to an ever thinning point at the edges? If it has flat edges then theoretically you could stand there and watch the sunset and sunrise at the same time.

This is the stupidest theory that I think I have ever come across. Even more frightening are the amount of people who honestly believe that it could be true.

A very simple way to disprove the theory, blow a bubble. A bubble takes the most economical shape that exists, the sphere.

The only way that the Earth could be flat, imo, is if it was artificially created and maintained.

I mean, one serious strike from a foreign object could shatter the whole planet into pieces if it hit in the right place.

Are people really that ignorant?

Anna1 · 2017-03-20T19:26:49Z

Jean Michel Exactly. "I'm forever blowing bubbles..."

Ragnar · 2017-03-20T18:03:26Z

I've watched a number of videos by flat earthers. Honestly, I am unsure. The thing is, there are points they bring up that make sense and have never been explained. Certainly anyone trying to discuss this topic gets bashed, never answered (at least on tv). How can we see things that, if the earth is a sphere the size we are told, should be below the curve of the planet? Why are there never live, or unaltered shots of the earth? Why are there never satellites in videos from space? These are just some things they mention that make sense. They don't automatically add up to the earth being flat. But they are curious and it's suspicious. What are they hiding?

Hans · 2017-03-20T18:31:16Z

Ragnar what would nasa or anybody gain by lying about the shape of the earth?

Anna1 · 2017-03-20T19:36:40Z

Ragnar I look to the stars and see rotating globe shapes. That exercise informs my belief.

Then I read an article about globe creation. I think 24 Strips of flat paper are used. These are cut and pasted on a globe so that the edges meet with the precision of PI.

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Ragnar · 2017-03-21T01:28:45Z

Hans I have no idea. But they are lying. The images we are told are shots of earth, all show a round sphere. Yet scientists all agree the earth is NOT round. It's an oblique spheroid. Which if you look it up, looks more pear shaped, or almost UFO disc like. So all those round earth pictures, including the ones from the Apollo missions, were fake..... Why? I don't know.

Ragnar · 2017-03-21T01:30:18Z

Anna1 I agree. I'm not a believer in the flat earth. I just have questions about some of the things flat earth people are bringing up. Or I agree with them that there are issues with the official story.

davidcarswell · 2017-03-21T14:21:03Z

Ragnar It's is an oblate spheroid that bulges at the equator by 47-48 miles. You cannot detect that without taking measure using precision instruments.

If one were to take several minutes of video you wouldn't see much change detectable with the eyes. Time lapse you would but real time and how short attention spans are - hardly anyone would stay around long enough to see a cold front move by.

There are continuous data sets that one can download of global cloud layers, temperatures, foliage changes, wind speed, etc. There are hundreds of mapped sets by the minute, day or month. Provided you know how to access them you can convert the data into a 3-dimension map with video motion. Actual video at 30 frames or 60 frames a second is a lot of data. The payoff for video for bandwidth would be stupid and take enormous resources for something fairly useless. Yes there are exceptions but I'm talking about the money shot I think people are referring to. I photo is the real money shot.

Video as video is extremely large in size to transmit with any detail. You can see some live footage of inner satellites sweeping around the earth. They are a bit closer than whole globe.

I am studying astrophysics / astronomy (unfortunately standard model) and there is very very little video offers the scientific community that hi Res photo/s wouldn't be better. And there is some footage of whole earth and like I said it's rather boring.

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