Hip - hop star B.o . B. , who last yearstarted a modest feudwith astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson over the passing answer query of whether the Earth is flat ( it is not ) , apparently does not take the matter settled .
Last week , B.o.B.created a GoFundMe pageto prove to him that the world is , in fact , curved . His plan ?
“ I would like to broadcast one , if not multiple satellites as far into space as I can or into orbit as I can to find the curve , ” B.o . B. articulate in a promotional video for the cause on Monday . “ I ’m really … I ’m look for the bend . ”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YriSYFtPEAY
Of short letter is there are alreadyapproximately 1,456 functional satellitesin sphere around the Earth , according to a Union of Concerned Scientists survey from before this year , and innumerable photos and video recording taken during the introduction and subsequent spaceflight of said artificial satellite which support that the planet is pear-shaped .
Okay , reckon , we can and already havegone into uttermost detailon all the scientific information showing the planet is roughly spherical ( more accurately , an ellipsoid ) . But given that B.o . B. has now been on the level - world vanquish for well over a class , perhaps some variety of physical demonstration of the laws of physic is in rescript so we can all just move past this already .
So take heed me out . B.o . B. has only raised$581 of his $ 200,000 goalas of Monday evening . Fortunately , Popular Mechanics note that the raw materials to post a camera up to 17.5 mile ( 28 kilometer ) into the stratosphere using a balloon , as a group of MIT studentsdid in 2009 , could costas little as $ 150 . At that price item , B.o . B. could already launch four missions if he throw in $ 20 of his own money .
Alternately , he could spend the extra money on a upright camera . Photosfrom the 2009 flightare certainly taken from high up tocapture the curvature of the planet , if not necessarily very well .
If B.o . B. raised closer to $ 1,000 , he ’d be able-bodied to open a much more high - definition serial of imagessuch as those capturedby a couple of Florida students in 2015 .
A more late University Of Leicester labor , view below , did not have a listed toll , but it ’s certainly much less than $ 200,000 .
The only other prominent people to back B.o . B. ’s interpretation , basketball game asterisk Shaquille O’Neal and Kyrie Irving , have since insistedtheywere just joke .
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