Rapper BoB insists Earth is flat on Twitter

Rapper Bobby Ray Simmons jnr, better known by his stage name BoB, thinks the Earth is flat, if his Twitter timeline is to be believed.

The artist whose hits include Airplanes and Nothin' on You posted several tweets questioning science's understanding of the planet's shape.

“A lot of people are turned off by the phrase ‘flat Earth’ . . . but there’s no way u can see all the evidence and not know . . .” he tweeted.

He argued that if the Earth was indeed curved, when looking at the horizon distant cities would be hidden from view.

In response to a photograph of skydivers with the arc of the Earth in the background he tweeted: “No matter how high in elevation you are . . . the horizon is always eye level . . . sorry cadets . . . I didn’t wanna believe it either.”

He argued modern science was misleading people when the absence of the edge to the planet was put to him.

“Have u been to the edge? Or is that what your science book told you?”

Astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson refuted BoB’s claims but reassured him: “Being five centuries regressed in your reasoning doesn’t mean we all can’t still like your music.”

The singer is not alone in thinking this way. The Flat Earth Society has been growing since 2004 and promotes a library of sources supporting its claims on its website.

BoB asked his followers to do some research and see what conclusions they came to.

“Don’t believe what I say, research what I say.”