Wiz Khalifa shares bizarre theory on why he thinks planet Earth is a 'flat plane'

Yahoo

27-04-2025

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."
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.
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.