A number of classrooms inside Allderdice High School likely have a globe in them, and Pittsburgh primary schools teach students about the roughly-sphere shape that the planet when a student is young.
But, one famous alumni of the school in Squirrel Hill believes the Earth is flat.
Hip hop star Wiz Khalifa recently told former rapper Joe Budden on his podcast, “I just believe that we live on a flat plane, like a huge flat plane.”
Budden and his co-hosts continued to press the “Black and Yellow” rapper.
Asked if he had ever been to the edge of the planet, Khalifa said no.
“I think that there’s more masses than just what we see . . . because it was one thing before and it’s like spread out,” said Khalifa.
He went on to compare the earth to a rug, pointing out a small section and saying the rest of the rug is the undiscovered part of earth.
“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,” said a seemingly-serious Khalifa.
There are several ways to prove the Earth, is indeed, not flat:
1. The round shadow the Earth casts on the moon during a lunar eclipse
2. Ships “disappearing” over a horizon.
3. If the Earth was flat, everyone would get the same daylight, at the same time. Ever watch a baseball game in Pittsburgh at night when the Pirates are playing in California?
These are just a few of the many ways to prove the Earth was flat, something people have been able to do going back to ancient Greece.