


Instead, take the word of Christopher Simpson, a physics teacher. Beyond that, O’Neal even went into how he doesn’t believe in gravity, and seeing how he played professional basketball, an activity entirely dependent on gravity itself, makes no sense. The countless amount of photographic evidence is a testament to the Earth being a sphere. What we can do, however, is go out in space and take pictures, and luckily enough, we have astronauts for that. Since we are so small, from our perspective, the Earth will feel flat.

Being so miniature in comparison to the actual size of the Earth, of course people won’t be able to examine our planet’s curvature, all 24,901 miles of its circumference. It’s not like walking on a 15-foot curved bridge over a pond at the local park in which you can examine the curvature of an object in its entirety, the Earth is too big for that. Of course it doesn’t feel like he’s going around the curved spherical shape of the Earth when he “drive from Florida to California”, and that’s only because the Earth is so big. Now, O’Neal’s claims are beyond ludicrous, mostly because it seems that O’Neal is confusing staying on the surface of the Earth with Earth being flat. I do not go up and down at a 360-degree angle, and all that stuff about gravity, have you looked outside Atlanta lately and seen all these buildings?” I drive from Florida to California all the time, and it’s flat to me. Just when we thought this whole situation couldn’t get any worse, Hall of Fame retired NBA big man, Shaquille O’Neal, subscribed to the same theory.īusiness Insider reported that on his podcast, O’Neal said, “there are three ways to manipulate the mind - what you read, what you see, and what you hear.” He went further to cite his “evidence” as he said, “So, listen, I drive from coast to coast, and this s- is flat to me. Kyrie Irving made everyone facepalm themselves by saying that he believed that the Earth is flat.
