# What's your conspiracy theory over the Huge Blackout? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 15, 2003, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328 "2003-08-15T04:46:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/41 "2003-08-16T14:52:51Z")
Isn’t it obvious? The blackout was caused by a team of extraordinarily agile individuals who entered a power plant with the purpose of shutting it down. They did this in order to cut off the power from the security system in a specific high-rise building. This allowed a certain individual, who had surreptituously gained entry, to access a room full of television screens in which he met and talked to the Architect. I’m not sure about what happens next, though. ---
**Author:** ![severin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@severin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/severin)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/42 "2003-08-16T14:59:52Z")
the suspect is a black male … ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/43 "2003-08-16T15:37:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jjimm \* > \*\*Jeez, people. Remove the scales from your eyes. Do I have to spell it out for you? The blackout was obviously to facilitate a heist so huge that we don’t yet appreciate how huge it was - so huge that we probably never will. It was caused initially by a guy with a fake cockney accent, ? \*\* This is brilliant. Except what the felons were after were the secret box that was placed in a DC Warehouse back in the 30’s that was found by Doctor Jones. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Bird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Little\_Bird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Bird)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/44 "2003-08-16T15:40:21Z")
The CEOs of Qwest and State Farm did it on a dare as a part of their initiation into the 5th level of the Masons. ---
**Author:** ![severin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@severin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/severin)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/45 "2003-08-16T16:37:02Z")
Don’t forget the candle-mafia, they gained a lot of power in the past 10 years… ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/46 "2003-08-16T17:33:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Seven \* > \*\*He really has abused that extra, lower lightswitch hasn’t he? \*\* After they break open that glo-stick and pour it into Homestarrunner’s Mountain Dew, the Cheat is **GROUNDED!** ---
**Author:** ![Mariemarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@Mariemarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mariemarie)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/47 "2003-08-16T17:45:16Z")
It was a guy named Eddie… ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/48 "2003-08-16T18:16:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Shirley Ujest \* > \*\*I heard it was more than they could _Handl_ and then they got their _Rockmaninoff._ \*\* Well, with a band that size, you’re bound to have a few who suffer from _Messiah_ complex. That kind of sexual promiscuity frequently leads to increased \* Dvorak\* rates later in life, due to the fact that their adult relationship skills never had a chance to fully _formata_. ---
**Author:** ![Declan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@Declan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Declan)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/49 "2003-08-16T18:34:08Z")
The evil cooler of death has returned as promised and this is one of his 7 deadly omens, before the world ends. We never realized that the Blimp from hell was the portal from which this monster shall arise. Declan ---
**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/50 "2003-08-16T19:09:06Z")
I think it’s pretty clear that Bush and his power company friends are behind this. They kill the power for a short time, then complain how the systems are outdated but they don’t have the money to spend to update them, so Bush passes the “electric company bailout bill” and the systems (which are private) are updated on US taxpayer money. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/51 "2003-08-16T23:40:05Z")
**Bad jokes inspired by this thread:** ::::::::::clip clop clip clip bang bang:::::::: What was that? Amish Drive-by shooting. * * * What did one candle say to the other candle? Let’s go out tonight. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/52 "2003-08-17T00:23:51Z")
Of course, I’m not at liberty to say what’s _really_ going on, but you _did_ notice that the blackout came right after the MSBlaster computer worm infection really got going, right? The blackout was clearly a last-ditch attempt to stop _something_ from going critical in the Net and affecting _certain installations_ in the Northeast USA. The fact that it spilled over into Canada and the Midwest was an accident. But as they say, if you play with the big boys, you’ve got to expect big noises! And you can count the boys bigger than the US President on the fingers of one hand… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/53 "2003-08-17T00:50:08Z")
Kayser Houze did it. ---
**Author:** ![Etherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/958977/32.png) [@Etherman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Etherman)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/54 "2003-08-17T03:17:42Z")
Well it _did_ affect some parts of New England. And there were all those stories from Lovecraft about Elder Gods set in New England. Coincidence? I think not. Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn ---
**Author:** ![DreadCthulhu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DreadCthulhu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DreadCthulhu)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/55 "2003-08-17T06:38:20Z")
Hey, I was in Minnesoda when this happened . . . ---
**Author:** ![KidCharlemagne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@KidCharlemagne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KidCharlemagne)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/56 "2003-08-17T13:52:39Z")
It was the Saucer People in conjunction with the Rand Corporation. ---
**Author:** ![Mariemarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@Mariemarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mariemarie)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/57 "2003-08-17T15:22:37Z")
It was a tree! ---
**Author:** ![Mariemarie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@Mariemarie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mariemarie)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/58 "2003-08-17T15:25:05Z")
fixed link[Trees by Manhattan](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=205213) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/59 "2003-08-17T17:43:28Z")
They needed several days worth of power from multiple nuclear and fossil fuel plants to power up the Super Weapons ™. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-conspiracy-theory-over-the-huge-blackout/195328/60 "2003-08-17T18:14:16Z")
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