Is it just me, or has the world been getting a bit… flat, lately? With the stars aligning in ways that had even Pythagoras thinking the Earth was a globe (imagine that, the dude was famous for his theorem, not his thoughts on planetary shapes), you’d think we’d all be on the same orbit. But, alas, enter the cosmos’ own rapper, Wiz Khalifa, born on the cusp of Virgo, a sign known for simplicity and meticulousness—I guess that includes the shape of our Earth as well?
Wiz, during a recent chat on The Joe Budden Podcast, dropped the mic on us with his belief in a flat Earth, completely ignoring the cosmic history of round thinking, from Aristotle to our very own astronauts sending back selfies with the Earth as a majestic sphere in the background. Here’s a guy, whose Virgo spirit must truly believe in the straightforward, flat nature of our existence because, why go up and down when you can just go straight?
And speaking of influencers, imagine the backlash in the scientific community, a place where flat Earth theories go to be laughed at. I foresee (pardon the astrological pun) Wiz needing to up his game if he encounters Professor Brian Cox, who’d probably not hesitate to bonk him with Newton’s Principia—and if not Cox, perhaps the Universe itself will throw him an eclipse to ponder.
Today’s astrological alignment reminds us that sometimes, you have to travel far, much like those circumnavigating the globe, to realize the truth isn’t just laid flat. Shall we all get our boarding passes to reality? LEARN MORE on what Wiz had to say, and take a cosmic voyage into why it’s not just a round peg in a round hole, but a spherical planet amidst the stars!
Wiz Khalifa has been talking about his theory on the shape of the Earth, as he reckons we’re living on a ‘flat plane’ despite all evidence to the contrary.
About 2,500 years ago, Pythagoras put down his triangles for a bit and said he thought the Earth was round, and a couple of hundred years after that, Aristotle realised that the circular shadow cast by our planet during an eclipse must mean the planet was round.
For avoidance of doubt, our planet is very much a sphere, not a perfect sphere, but a sphere nonetheless.
However, Wiz Khalifa reckons he knows better than all that as he was recently asked if he thought the Earth was round and he said ‘no.’
The rapper was speaking on The Joe Budden Podcast when he outlined his theory, saying: “I just believe that we live on a flat plane, like a huge flat plane.”
The world is round, Wiz (Aaron J. Thornton/WireImage)
As for how he knows this, Khalifa said that he’s ‘travelled so much’ and in that time he found it was ‘not possible to go up and down.’
“I think that there’s more masses than just what we see because it was one thing before and it spread out,” the rapper said.
“Because when I travel, the routes that we take and how we do it, it’s not possible to go up and down. You’re just going straight. That’s the only reason I think that.
“I don’t believe in space exploration at all, I don’t believe that they explore space as much as they say that they do.”
Flat Earthers ideas don’t tend to survive contact with reality, as one of the notorious conspiracy theorists decided to travel to the North Pole to prove the world was flat.
Instead he ended up providing the world was round, and actually admitted that he’d got it wrong.
That’s a sphere, man (Getty Stock Photo)
Flat Earthers don’t have much respect in the scientific community either.
Should Wiz Khalifa ever run into Professor Brian Cox, he can expect to be biffed on the head by the beloved scientist with a copy of Sir Isaac Newton’s 1687 book Principia.
NASA scientist Dr James Garvin was once asked how we know the Earth isn’t flat, and he pointed out that explorers circumnavigating the globe would have fallen off the edge of the planet if it was flat.
Instead they were able to sail around the world, and every day planes and ships make that same journey, which must mean they’re either all in on this grand conspiracy or the theory is bogus.
Astronauts in space have even tried to disprove the Flat Earth theory by showing us what our planet looks like from above.