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Post number 11865

ZachsMind — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 20:49:28 -0800

Will it work? No, but don't let that stop you... ...And you thought air guitar was silly or maybe you didn't, but this is a bit much... ...There's been a lot of well-intentioned people in the world who came up with some pretty stupid ideas. What are your favorite, fun, stupid ideas?

By: inkognito

inkognito — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 20:55:14 -0800

Today we played soccer in my office with ice cubes. That was stupid.

By: HoldenCaulfield

HoldenCaulfield — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:17:19 -0800

Here's a list of sites linking to paintthemoon.org from google. To tell you the truth, in general, swaying millions of people to do a certain thing is next to impossible, and if it was as easy as putting up a webpage then...

By: geoff.

geoff. — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:34:34 -0800

So let's say a laster pointer circumference is... 2 centimeters (just guessing on that one, probably about right). I'm not going to do areas of circles, so say for a 1m patch on the moon you'd need 50 lasers pointed exactly adjacent. That's a lot.... for a really small patch. That's if every laser reached the moon too. This is impossible. Also, anyone think of the ramifications of aiming millions of lasers into our atmosphere? Why don't we just have national "Empty out our hair spray into the atmosphere" day. Maybe my math is wrong. Someone check it. I apologize for using the evil communist metric system, but nice 10-base numbers are easy to work with.

By: HoldenCaulfield

HoldenCaulfield — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:39:25 -0800

I apologize for using the evil communist metric system,... geoff, from that remark I'm assuming your IQ is below 100, which means your mental age divided by your chronological age is less than one.

By: QrysDonnell

QrysDonnell — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:39:37 -0800

Um. The big question now is did it work??? I think the hardest part would really be properly aiming.

By: QrysDonnell

QrysDonnell — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:42:50 -0800

Nevermind. It's tomorrow. Duh.

By: HoldenCaulfield

HoldenCaulfield — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:43:11 -0800

...er...unless you were being sarcastic please disregard *this* post.

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:43:51 -0800

inkognito: "Today we played soccer in my office with ice cubes. That was stupid." Yeah but that sounds like fun, too! =) geoff: "This is impossible." Of course it's impossible. That's why it's so fun and stupid. I love stuff like this. It's dumb but it's poetic. It'll never work but the intent is sincere. And who knows? People used to think we couldn't put a man up there on the moon. Maybe someone'll figure out how to do it.

By: geoff.

geoff. — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:52:03 -0800

I know, I just like proving it's impossible before saying that it is impossible. It makes me feel better to back my statement up.

By: sugarfish

sugarfish — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:57:23 -0800

one time i was playing soccer in the kitchen, screaming "GOOOOOOOOOOOAL" and a glass pan exploded. it was scary.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 22:31:31 -0800

Would trying to raise & sell squirrels as trained domestic pets count as stupid? I think they would be perfect pets -- small, cute, (relatively) smart. Great for apartment-dwellers. Would you buy one? It's been a long day. My brain hurts.

By: moz

moz — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 22:46:00 -0800

one time i screamed "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL" on a crowded bus -- i got a lot of stares from that.

By: harrycaul

harrycaul — Fri, 26 Oct 2001 23:14:43 -0800

Well, it seems stupid ideas aren't limited to fring websites:

Company officials had wanted to use lasers to shine a giant logo on to the surface of the moon, but they started looking for an alternative promotional idea when they learnt that the image would have to be as big as Texas to be seen by earthlings more than 380,000 kilometers (238,000 miles) away.

By: JParker

JParker — Sat, 27 Oct 2001 00:02:24 -0800

Quickie back-of-the-envelope calculation shows it would require roughly 15,415,772 laser pointers per person if everybody on Earth participates.

By: davidmsc

davidmsc — Sat, 27 Oct 2001 00:35:56 -0800

JParker: Sorry, I don't have that many hands.

By: Hima Otsubusu

Hima Otsubusu — Sat, 27 Oct 2001 02:14:31 -0800

I'm not certain if this quite what you meant, but once when I lived in an apartment in Boston, I set up one of those little boxes which are like bird houses, only for bats. In two months, I had roughly twenty bats living in there. My neighbors hated me.

By: ferris

ferris — Sat, 27 Oct 2001 06:37:28 -0800

Actually, putting up a bat house isn't a stupid idea - fun though.

By: lotsofno

lotsofno — Sat, 27 Oct 2001 07:03:05 -0800

maybe a giant heat ray would would better.

By: verdezza

verdezza — Sat, 27 Oct 2001 09:17:24 -0800

What are your favorite, fun, stupid ideas? 10. Voting along straight party lines. 9. Living in NYC. 8. Blogging about nothing. 7. Going through an ex-gay deprogramming... er, program. 6. Drinking 'til I puke. 5. Watching too much TV. 4. Using a high-powered PC to surf the web and do word processing. 3. Talking to dogs as if they actually understand me. 2. Falling in love with straight guys. 1. Dancing for no apparent reason whatsoever.

By: Danelope

Danelope — Sat, 27 Oct 2001 19:05:06 -0800

Fuck this "painting the moon" noise. I say NUKE THE MOON!!

By: ZachsMind

ZachsMind — Sun, 28 Oct 2001 07:52:53 -0800

Nuking the moon could perhaps be the most fun, stupid idea ever conceived. Kudos, Danelope! You Win! =)