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Kyrie Irving is one of the best basketball stars of the time. He won the 2016 Olympic gold medal, won the 2014 World Cup, the 2016 NBA, and dozens of other collective and individual titles. In addition to extraordinary talent, Irving is also known for being smart and insightful. Perhaps because he was too smart, one day he suddenly realized that, falling to Earth … flat.
In 2017, the podcast was released during the NBA All-Star vacation, Irving said, “Look, right in front of us. The earth is flat. Really flat. We’ve been fooled for so long.” According to him, only by climbing a mountain and approaching the distance will he see, the horizon is very straight. Which means that the Earth is like a flat disk, not a sphere.
In another interview with the New York Times in 2018, Irving, who also claimed to be able to see himself in his sleep, said: “Science has shown, scholars and history have also shown that the Earth is flat. But why do we not think otherwise and prove that we are right?
Kyrie Irving thinks Earth is really like pizza.
Irving is still a ridiculous argument: “Science and history are not always true. What I know is that history has always been distorted over time, so why do we constantly believe that the Earth is flat? Think of Nikola Tesla (One of the greatest inventors, scientists in history), was he never considered eccentric because of the statements that surprised the entire world? “
Irving is not the only person in the world who believes that the Earth is flat. The Flat Earth Association is an organization with quite a following. According to this association, Earth is like a plate with the center of the North Pole, surrounded by an Antarctic ice wall.
They also argue that NASA (United States Aerospace and Space Administration) has invented the spherical Earth. The job of this organization, in essence, is to prevent people from sharpening near Antarctica, climbing and falling … the disk of Earth.
The shape of the Earth in the eyes of flat Earthlings.
You will be surprised to know that in Brazil there are 11 million people, or 7% of the population, who believe in the theory of the flat Earth. They say that the round Earth is “the most terrible lie in human history” and “in this world there are only two certainties, one is death and the other is the flat Earth”.
Before Irving, another basketball star, Shaquille O’Neal, also supported the flat earthquake. And O’Neal demonstrates driving home from Florida to his home in California, and then yelling, “See? I’ve come a long, flat way, so why do people keep dwelling on the Spherical Earth?”
However, the Flat Earth issue has only been widely discussed since Irving’s statement due to its popularity. The number of searches for “Flat Earth” exploded on Google, 3 times more than before. At the same time, the number of followers of the Flat Earth Association increased dramatically, instead of stopping at 200 people per year.
Kyrie Irving did not believe that her statement had serious consequences.
Not only scientists, educational wings are also confused when students and their students suddenly doubt science. Susan Yoon, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Education who is training the next generation of science teachers, said: “I was really terrified. How did you think it was part of a conspiracy plan?” Because of the silly speech of a basketball player, they move away from science and doubt everything. “
In response, Professor Yoon has only one way to guide students to collect evidence, evaluate sources, reason, hypothesize, and synthesize results. Hopefully after that, they discover the truth for themselves.
Growing skepticism led to an educational crisis, Irving ended up issuing an apology to science teachers, “because he knew he had to change the entire curriculum.” . He also wished he had “never spoken of it.”
However, just as when Galileo Galilei was forced to abandon heliocentrism, saying that “the Earth still spins anyway”, Irving never admitted that he was wrong. I still think Earth is a pizza, not an orange.
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