Share Your Most Dangerous Idea 1060
GabrielF writes "Every year The Edge asks over 100 top scientists and thinkers a question, and the responses are fascinating and widely quoted. This year, psychologist Steven Pinker suggested they ask "What is your most dangerous idea?" The 117 respondents include Richard Dawkins, Freeman Dyson, Daniel Dennett, Jared Diamond -- and that's just the D's! As you might expect, the submissions are brilliant and very controversial."
My Humble Submissions (Score:5, Funny)
2. Testing for the presence of pheromones in ball sweat by putting my hand down my pants, cupping my balls, and holding my hand over my sleeping girlfriend's face while she slept.*
+ I was going to do this while in the shower with the water running off to the side so I could hop into the water in the event of the inevitable accident
* Danger: She's a biter thus the reluctance to tea bag her directly
jihad (Score:2, Funny)
My most dangerous ideas (Score:5, Funny)
"Better light a match to see where that gas is coming from."
"Yeah honey, you do look kind of fat in that dress."
Re:What are /. reader's most dangerous ideas? (Score:4, Funny)
Very dangerous idea.
Well, duh... (Score:3, Funny)
My most dangerous idea... (Score:2, Funny)
But the bet paid off. And now I can buy my own island. And a death ray.
Most Dangerous Idea: (Score:4, Funny)
Re:My Humble Submissions (Score:4, Funny)
My Name is Kiiiiiiiiiddd Rock (Score:3, Funny)
So that would make the *most* dangerous idea... (Score:5, Funny)
My most dangerous idea? (Score:5, Funny)
My idea (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Sexuality is going to change (Score:4, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Blow up the Moon (Score:4, Funny)
The Most Dangerous Idea of Them All! (Score:3, Funny)
Sorry, couldn't help myself
-Brandon
Re:What are /. reader's most dangerous ideas? (Score:5, Funny)
So we're at the strip club, and this girl I know is giving me a table dance. Her gorgeous ass is bobbing back and forth in front of my face, right? And there's a good chance she'll come with us later in the evening for some clubbing. I'm happy and content, and all is well.
SUDDENLY! His hand flies into the scene from the left, and he sticks his thumb straight up her ass. She screams and shoots off him like a pershing missle, and sprints -- SPRINTS -- into the dressing rooms twenty feet away. My mouth is hanging open; I simply cannot believe what has just happened. The girl -- strawberry blonde with a surfer hairdo and freckles and the whitest, softest skin you have EVER seen -- is certainly NEVER going to speak to me again. I am in shock of course.
She's barely gone and my knucklehead friend leaps up to the platform where some other poor girl is doing her little pole-dance thing, and starts screaming "they're all SLUTS! SLUTS! SLUTS!" I grab him in a headlock and drag him to the door, saying to the two Giant Navajo bouncers "Uh... I think he's on something, we're leaving, ok?" He's frothing at the mouth at this point. I barely get him outside and he takes off like a psycho rocket.
I spent the rest of the night chasing his psycho tripping ass all over Flagstaff, Arizona, hoping he wouldn't get himself killed, not having any idea whatsoever what was going on. At one point, he drove his head into four or five huge plate-glass windows in a row, all along San Francisco street, causing an enormous uproar (people getting out of bed with their shotguns, etc) and a police investigation that would go on for weeks. Unbelieveably, he wasn't injured at all. Not even a scratch.
I finally got him back in his apartment, and when he called me the next day, all of his clothes had been mysteriously tied in a huge rope which extended from his ankle to his door (or something, he wasn't really coherent when he told me the story), he was stark naked, and there was vomit all over every surface of his room. On the advice of a bartender friend of ours, he got out of town at first opportunity - EVERYONE was looking for him (and me, because they thought he might have killed me or something) -- and I haven't seen or heard of him since.
It was the weirdest-ass thing I ever witnessed.
Hmm... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What are /. reader's most dangerous ideas? (Score:5, Funny)
2. (August 2001) "Maybe I should drop out and join the Army. Chicks really dig guys in uniforms, and besides, what are the chances we'll be in a war in the next few years."
3. (Shouting to the skymarshall in the aisle across from you) "Excuse me, I dropped my lip balm and it rolled over by you. That's my balm right there. Could you throw me my balm? Oh don't bother, I'll get it. It's okay everyone! I got my balm!"
4. (Visiting family in NYC) "This white hotel sheet sure made a great ghost costume. I'll show everyone how their cousin from Arkansas can party. Wow, I'm almost late for the halloween party. I'd better take a shortcut through this part of the map called Harlem. Oh darn, I think my tire is going flat."
most dangerous virus (Score:4, Funny)
Suppose a virus grepped your Outlook/Outlook Express address book for people's names. Then it grepped all the emails/documents/spreadsheets/whatever on all drives it could reach for those names.
Once it found a document with someone's name, it emails that document to them.
Imagine the chaos as confidential HR memos, payroll spreadsheets, legal documents, and just plain gossip are indiscriminately sent out.
Put all my company's sensitive data.. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:device exists, and is in use! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Put all my company's sensitive data.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:device exists, and is in use! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What are /. reader's most dangerous ideas? (Score:1, Funny)
Sorry about that. I keep meaning to get in touch, but, you know...
Slashdot got a shoutout, (and a compliment) (Score:4, Funny)
My first thought was: what if any really smart set of people really set their mind to it...how utterly and scarily trivial it would be, to disrupt the very fabric of life, to bring society to a dead stop?
The relative innocence and stable period of the last 50 years may spiral into a nearly inevitable exposure to real chaos. What if it isn't haphazard testosterone driven riots, where they cannibalize their own neighborhood, much like in L.A. in the 80s, but someone with real insight behind that criminal energy ? What if Slashdotters start musing aloud about "Gee, the L.A. water supply is rather simplistic, isn't it?" An Open Source crime web, a Wiki for real WTO opposition ? Hacking L.A. may be a lot easier than hacking IE.
Feeling lonely and asking god for a companion (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The Most Dangerous Idea of All (Score:2, Funny)
I'll be impressed when I meet a cat that appreciates quantum physics...
Re:Ooh, I know this one! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The Most Dangerous Idea of All (Score:3, Funny)
I'm not sure if I would describe cat religion as Secular Felinism or the simple belief that if one is a cat, one is a god. Does it count as polytheism if multiple cats believe that they are each the one and only True God?
Dogs, of course, clearly do have religion.
Re:The Most Dangerous Idea of All (Score:4, Funny)
Re:most dangerous virus (Score:4, Funny)
a) extract software name, serial #'s / keys
b) email the results to the BSA saying that they think their company is using unlicensed software
c) ask for the reward to go to a paypal acct
d) spread like crazy
Nice, Huh?
B
Re:Here is one they won't ever implement (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What are /. reader's most dangerous ideas? (Score:3, Funny)
That sounds like a most excellent movie idea. I even have a title for you. "What the hell is he on?"
Re:The Most Apt Response Out There (Score:4, Funny)
So when my girlfriend makes me miserable she's making me less appealing to other women, which defends her turf. Damn, women are smart!