# What were your favorite lunatic theories on the SDMB? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 22, 2021, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021 "2021-07-22T01:10:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/1 "2021-07-22T01:10:25Z")
I believe that I was suspended, or not yet a member, in time for the controversy over male circumcision. (Is that why the name Jack Dean Tyler is stuck in my head?) What was that all about? OTOH, I was here for the floating stones of the Great Pyramid. Any others I forgot? Or as a project for new users, is there some lunacy on social media you’d like to introduce so we can all laugh at it. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/2 "2021-07-22T06:54:34Z")
Since Daylight Savings time was so successful, someone suggested applying the same principle to the calendar. Skip March and go straight from February to April, and then make up for it by repeating September over again. People have been trained to think it is whatever hour you tell them it is, so it ought to work for months, too. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/3 "2021-07-22T10:25:54Z")
My own. Always. 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/4 "2021-07-22T10:32:25Z")
Most of the explanations for what “14 k of g in a f p d” means. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/5 "2021-07-22T18:10:37Z")
Possibly this one: > [@All Four Forces of Physics United](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-four-forces-of-physics-united/784289): > > I have diagrams that the post would not let me enter in post. I can email complete paper with diagrams to anyone who is interested. Thanks All Four Forces of Physics United The effects of gravity are not well understood at the large scale. Mass distorts the space around itself. Distorted space causes other mass to move into this distorted space, but why? I believe that the effect of matter in space is of displacement. That is, that there is space through- out the area that the matter is occ… ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2021, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/6 "2021-07-22T18:38:10Z")
Yes, a newbie keys in a wall o’ text solving one of the great questions and defends it to the heat death of the universe or sees something sparkly. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/7 "2021-07-23T01:24:14Z")
The one where you could build a cable car to the top of Mount Everest, solely by excavation with shaped charges, and putting workers in space suits. The one where you could easily nuke a full-tungsten asteroid and it would save the earth. The one where you could cure death by uploading everyone’s consciousness into a server and eliminate disease. The one where you could solve global warming by dumping a tone of methyl-sufloxide-something-or-other into the atmosphere to capture carbon because an economist wrote about it. Tripler This is starting to sound like a list of _Friends_ episodes. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/8 "2021-07-23T02:07:36Z")
Weren’t those all the same person? ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/9 "2021-07-23T02:13:48Z")
Could be. They all sound alike after a while. 😉 Except that woman fixated on a singer named James something. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/10 "2021-07-23T03:22:01Z")
Oh, yes, she was named **JamesOttoLover** and would get really nasty with anyone who doubted God or his pal James Otto. She’d basically call a poster a godless slut, then close with _“God luvs ya, and so do I ❤ ❤ ❤ !”_ As an aside, I listened to some James Otto just to see if there was any reason for someone to be so smitten with his music. Big nope. Overproduced boring “country pop”. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/11 "2021-07-23T03:29:48Z")
> [@All Four Forces of Physics United](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-four-forces-of-physics-united/784289/1): > > I have diagrams that the post would not let me enter in post. I can email complete paper with diagrams to anyone who is interested. I was here for this, and I remember thinking at the time that if you did ask him for his “paper with diagrams”, he’d mail you pages torn out of a school notebook with ballpoint pen scribbles. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/12 "2021-07-23T03:30:12Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Overproduced boring “country pop”. .Erp. 🤮 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/13 "2021-07-23T04:03:21Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Oh, yes, she was named **JamesOttoLover** and would get really nasty with anyone who doubted God or his pal James Otto. I has replying to Tripler–I think all of his were SamuelA. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/14 "2021-07-23T04:06:13Z")
I checked to see if our little lunatic has killed Mr Otto. No. I was going to blame **Tuba**. She’d like that. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/15 "2021-07-23T04:26:22Z")
That one where a poster proposed that the Apollo pictures taken on the moon were faked… to hide alien cities and UFOs on the moon. Oh, yeah; and at the same time the moon landings where the pictures came from, were fake too… 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/16 "2021-07-23T06:10:08Z")
The response to that was led by our own **Bad Astronomer** , Phil Plait, who was still a member when I joined. > **[Phil Plait | Internet presence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Plait#Internet_presence)** > > Plait began publishing explanatory Internet postings on science in 1993.: 3:10  Five years later, Plait established Badastronomy.com with the goal of clearing up what he perceived to be widespread public misconceptions about astronomy and space science in movies, the news, print, and on the Internet, also providing critical analysis of several pseudoscientific theories related to space and astronomy, such as the "Planet X" cataclysm, Richard Hoagland's theories, and the Moon landing "hoax ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/17 "2021-07-23T06:33:23Z")
Or do I know him from the JREF? It’s hard to say sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/18 "2021-07-23T08:10:20Z")
Maybe not exactly a _theory_, but I occasionally like to visit the thread about pitching a movie with 1/4th of a script, 5/16ths of a storyboard, a link to someone else’s Youtube videos and a partial container of Orange Tic Tacs. ---
**Author:** ![MANTRAPHILTER](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@MANTRAPHILTER](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MANTRAPHILTER)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 9:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/19 "2021-07-23T09:15:02Z")
I am the person that posted this, shortly after writing this document, I was able to retrieve memory of a gun shot injury to my head that had happened approximately 20 years earlier. I was having a dripping sensation in the middle of my brain during the time I posted this theory and parts of my memory that I had not been able to access since the injury were beginning to become active again. ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2021, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-your-favorite-lunatic-theories-on-the-sdmb/947021/20 "2021-07-23T09:27:53Z")
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