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Share Your Most Dangerous Idea
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."
1. Shaving my back with rubbing alcohol and fire+.
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
If you didn't come to party don't bother knocking on my door. Prince '1999'
"Hold my beer and watch this".
"Better light a match to see where that gas is coming from."
"Yeah honey, you do look kind of fat in that dress."
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
Asking your wife to hold your beer in an underground gas mine so that you can light a match to check if she looks fat.
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
This might cause the whole of space/time to explode, it might form a pocket universe, or it might do all sorts of other strange things.
Okay, I definitely nominate this for the most dangerous idea.
Oh, LOL. A windows-bashing comment by an Anonymous Coward on Slashdot. How singularly unique and entertaining. I believe I'll go stick my finger in an electrical socket now to complete the experience.