Hey, you didn’t think we’d skip up over one of the greatest Twitter battles of 2016. In January rapper B.o.B. starting spread his belief that the Earth is flat. Yes, you read that correctly. The rapper wanted everyone to know that everything we learned in the school books is a total conspiracy by a government controlled NASA. But who would swoop in to defend all the science that proves the world is round? Astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, and science educator Neil deGrasse Tyson, of course. Not only did he give his two cents on the social media platform, but he made a visit to The Nightly Show to set the record straight with a gravity-assisted mic drop. It’s a real science emergency!
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