You might cognise rapper B.o . B. for pop hit like " Nothing On You " and " Airplane " . Recently , he ’s been hitting headlines , but it ’s not for his medicine . Instead , it ’s for a GoFundMe campaign .
With his " Show BoB The Curve Campaign " , he plans to resurrect enough money to launch a satellite into outer space . This , he skip , will avail try the Earth is flat , round , or something in between .
The rapper , also know as Bobby Ray , has been part of the 2-dimensional Earth guild since 2016 ( if not in the first place ) , joining celebrities such as Tila Tequila and NBA player Kyrie Irving .
He first announced his doubts over the Earth ’s orbicular human body in January 2015 , when he posted a video of himself on what looks like a mountaintop . In the legend , he add " The cities in the background are approx . 16 miles apart … where is the curvature ? please explicate this " .
It lead in a rather entertaining Twitter feud with everyone ’s preferred astrophysicist , Neil deGrasse Tyson . This itself resulted in diss tracks:“Flatline"by B.o . B. and"Flat to Fact"by rapper Tyson , the physicist ’s nephew .
On his GoFundMe page , the rapper asks the world to " Help B.o . B. find the curve ball ! " and donate money to direct a satellite ( " if not multiple " ) " as far into space " as potential . He promises to keep everyone updated on his journey .
B.o . B. ’s end is to raise $ 200,000 . This wo n’t be enough to get a full - blown , orbiter but could cover a CubeSat or two , which would be enough to take a few range of the Earth ’s breaking ball .
At the metre of piece of writing , he ’s raised $ 676 from a total of 32 people . Not all of them buy into his flat Earth cabal theory . Some are donate to see him humiliated . Another , more kindly , hopes it will help him " put the flat dry land thing to bed " .
A flat Earth is not the only " alternative " hypothesis B.o . B. believe in . As he explain in a video onHotNewWhipHop , he became interested in conspiracy possibility after 9/11 . Watching video on YouTube convinced him it was an inside job .
He ’s also said that Snapchat has been collecting users ' facial CAT scan for a secret online database and that billionaires are transport their awareness into young physical structure . So yeah …
As Tyson puts it : " Duude – to be clear : Being five centuries regress in your logical thinking does n’t mean we all ca n’t still care your music . "
Update : The goal has now been raised to $ 1,000,000.The Vergehave warn that it could be a scam .
