posted the track 'Flatline' to his Soundcloud account dissing the physicist and reinforcing his belief in a flat earth. You’ve never been south of Earth’s Equator, or if so, you've never looked up.' Neil DeGrasse Tyson answered the rapper's question, writing 'Polaris is gone by 1.5 deg S. On January 25th, 2016 Atlanta rapper B.o.B., who has self-identified as a member of the Flat Earth Society, tweeted a photograph of himself against a skyline, then tweeted a screenshot from Flat Earth Movement literature that proclaimed that Polaris (the North Star) can be seen 20° south of the Equator.

The most popular of these videos (shown below) has over 4 million views. In addition, a variety of independent researchers have attempted to prove that the earth is flat, documenting their work in YouTube videos. In addition, the forum runs a Facebook page with over 14,000 likes, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr profiles with several thousand followers each, and a Flickr profile where they advertise a variety of different posters with proofs for why the world is flat. In 2004, the society was resurrected by a man named Daniel Shenton (no relation to Samuel), who created the Flat Earth Society forum, which as of February 2016 has over 8,200 members and 1.4 million posts. In the 1970s and 1980s, they released a newsletter called the Flat Earth News, which often debated NASA and other space agencies. When the first images of the earth taken from space were released, Shenton claimed that they were false. In 1956, Samuel Shenton created a more modern version of the Flat Earth Society, to collect a variety of followers of Rowbowtham's experiments. He took his results as disproving the theory of a round earth, but future scientists have said that the results he obtained could be accounted for by the parallax effect. In the experiment, Rowbowtham attempted to measure the curvature of the earth by observing the curvatures at a local river. Rowbowtham, who wrote a book named Earth Not a Globe, started the modern movement by debating scientists publicly and accumulating followers. People have believed that the Earth is flat since the beginning of humanity, but the modern Flat Earth hypothesis stemmed from an experiment called the Bedford Level Experiment, conducted in the mid-1800s by a man named Samuel Rowbotham.

Origin of flat earth theory