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When I was like 11 I thought hey, when you move one end of a stick the other end moves at the same time. So, I thought, why not make a huuuuuuge stick that went from Earth to places wayyyy far away. You could move one end of the stick on earth, and the other end would move on mars or whatever, and you'd have faster than light communication. I legitimately thought this idea would revolutionize communications and thought I was a genius. Anyways, post ITT really stupid ideas you had when you were a kid that you thought were smart.
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Harald posted:hot dogs stuffed with spaghetti wait like spaghetti in a hot dog bun, or like a hollowed-out frank with spaghetti shoved inside?
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Mar 24, 2017 02:32
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Parallax Scroll posted:the stick would totally fuckin work dude thx for ur support, I'll shoot an email to NASA asap, I think they'll be real interested!
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Mar 24, 2017 02:39
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500 good dogs posted:Isn't it basically just a space elevator? kinda but I thought you could use it to communicate instantaneously like you could push one end of the cable in a morse code pattern or something, and the other end would move at the exact same time, so you could communicate faster than the speed of light. Space Elevators are different I think?
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Mar 24, 2017 02:45
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ArbitraryC posted:when I had to read the giver I had the dumb "what if the blue I see is different from the blue you see" stoner moment. I remember having that moment, it seriously freaked me out! I was 11, that was a good age for idiot ideas for me.
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Mar 24, 2017 02:53
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Toadvine posted:I think I read in a thread forever ago that a stick of any material would 'bump' through space no faster than the speed of sound yeah, that would make sense, because that's how sound waves travel too, basically just air molecules bumping together.
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Mar 24, 2017 03:01
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Parallax Scroll posted:thats pretty fast we should develop this tech asap yeah, that's like, more than 300 mph! holy cow! alright dude, I'm calling NASA for real
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Mar 24, 2017 03:07
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Applesnots posted:It does not work though. I had the same thought as a kid too. yes, I know, that is why I titled this thread "idiot ideas" not "smart ideas" I wonder how many of these ideas are universal? A few people have also mentioned their moment of "wait, what if your blue isn't my blue," does anyone else remember that moment distinctly? It was a big thing for idiot me.
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Mar 24, 2017 03:20
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My friend told me if you went to a place in Neopets at exactly midnight you could get a special Neopet thing, so I stayed up late to try it like three times before my mom told me that kid was a fuckin liar.
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Mar 24, 2017 17:04
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Arrhythmia posted:That probably actually did happen, neo pets loved doing poo poo like that and your mom just lost you like, a poo poo load of neopoints gently caress is neopets still around? maybe I'll try it and prove mom wrong 
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Mar 24, 2017 23:38
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Houle posted:- That "Tween" and "Tweenager" meant in their 20s and not "in between child and teenager". Lead to A LOT of misunderstandings in my teen years Did you read LOTR as a kid? Because that's how Tolkein defines "tween." (IIRC he coined the term, but when people actually ended up using it it was used as "preteen"
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Das Boo posted:
You got the color wrong, but an all-red cow born in Israel is a genuine end-times sign in some religions I think, maybe that's where you got this from? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_heifer
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