The argument of savorless - Earthers are enough to give anyone a headache . However , imagine the frustration if you ’re an astrophysicist who ’s spent your entire life history trying to spread the word of scientific discipline and dispel such hocus - pocus myth .

In particular , the piano - spoken man of the stars was postulate about the infamous fame flat - earther B.o . B in a segment of the show called " Should n’t Be News " . The 29 - year - sure-enough rapper , with no   known scientific   scope , regularly apply his 2 - million - strong Twitter platform to post photos of the purview , asking questions such as “ where is the curve ? please explain this ” , like he somehow knows something everyone else does n’t .

Back in 2017 , he even attempted to upraise donations tolaunch a rocketthat could be blasted into Earth ’s atmosphere to confirm the flatness of Earth . The year before   he was   in the running game for winning our mostunexpected title we ever thought we ’d writeaward .

After get wind this tarradiddle of B.o . B ’s Eruca sativa , Professor Cox simply enunciate : “ A ‘ flat - Earther ’ is a individual who recall the Earth is flat , and that is not right . It ’s a sphere , ” to which the studio apartment break open out express mirth .

However , he was n’t quite as pick at as you might first assume . " To his citation – again , I ’m not going to defend what he thinks . It ’s whole wrong – but that ’s the pith of science , " Cox said .

" If you need to prove something to yourself and you should do , that ’s a good instinct , then that ’s what you do . You get your money , establish a rocket , go up into distance and then you will find it is spherical . He has wasted all his money but he will have learned something . "

“ So , please carry on , I ’d like him to do that and put out his pictures . I ’ll beam him a tenner , ” he add .

You might be wondering , why are astrophysicists such as Cox or Neil DeGrasse Tyson suddenlyhaving to suffice questionsabout a few people believe the Earth is flat ? Did n’t a load of Ancient Greekssort out this debatecenturies and centuries ago ?

The prostrate - Earther drive , for some very strange reason , looks like make a resurge of popularity in the Internet age , especially among the youthful generations and certain plane section of bon ton . A late view this month get hold that just66 percent of peoplein the US aged 18 to 24 are certain the Earth is spherical . The continue 34 percent were either questioning , shy , or think it was level .