Which crackpot theory is funnier?

[laconicsax]

Poll question: Which crackpot theory is funnier?

Candidates are the Expanding Earth "Theory" with its magically appearing oceans water or the Electric Universe "Theory" with its 'stars are made of lightning.'

[lazarus]

1. I've been out of the loop for a while

what's this Expanding Earth theory all about?

[laconicsax]

3. It's as it sounds.

In a nutshell: plate tectonics is crap--continents don't move, the earth expands.

[lazarus]

4. then that's what I'm voting for

hilarious!

[DavidDvorkin]

9. That's a lot of expansion!

[uriel1972]

2. My favourite

contained in the book "The Bible Fraud" by Tony Bushby has Jesus Christ being twins of Miriam Herod and the soon to be Roman Emperor Tiberius. One of whom is crucified the other becomes king of Britain. It's wacky and zany and contains the irrefutable proof that Shakespeare was Bacon. It's a crackerjack book if you can get hold of a copy.

[laconicsax]

5. I don't know...

The Bible is somewhat a crackpot theory in itself, so any crackpot theory based on it has to be wackier than talking animals, people living inside seafood, etc to really excel.

[uriel1972]

6. You've got a point I didn't think of that nt

[TZ]

7. Based on the naive and uninformed responses

in another forum, The Electric Universe!! Because you know, a sci-fi writer endorses it! The pseudo-intellectual crowd just love that kind of tripe. It SOUNDS legitimate. Has actual scientific terminology but its junk science.

[laconicsax]

8. I agree completely

I base it on how long I can go on a leading website for either fiction before I laugh out loud, causing laconicspouse to ask what's so funny.

Expanding Earth is genuinely amusing, but Electric Universe is a masterpiece.

[semillama]

13. I always find those posts amusing

in light of the poster's username, which to me is a good example of unintended irony.

[dropkickpa]

10. How is it I don't really know any of these?

My blissful ignorance needs to be destroyed in favor of the funny!!

[TZ]

11. for the Electric Universe

Just go to the (pseudo) Science forum. Some good critiques in that thread.

[Odin2005]

12. Expanding Earth.

[HuckleB]

14. So the earth is expanding, eh?

Thus, the earth's surface is getting closer and closer to the sun, which is the cause of global warming. Right? Right. Right?

:dunce: And proud of it!

[laconicsax]

15. zOMG!! That must be true!

[onager]

16. Other - Einstein proved the existence of a personal god

I don't want to get rapped for calling out a thread/poster. But that winner was recently posted in R/T and the thread is still smoldering.

[ChadwickHenryWard]

17. That has my vote.

:thumbsup:

[TransitJohn]

18. Neither of them can touch the time cube!

Time cube is pure win from the early days of the WWW.

[jberryhill]

19. Gravity is caused by converging stellar radiation "pushing"

If anyone else ever ran across this, I'd like to know if resources are still available.

Decades ago, I sent a dollar in response to a classified ad in Popular Science that read -

"Countless converging stellar radiations cause gravity because mass interferes. Send $1 to (address)"

So, this was a must-buy. I got back a huge collection of photocopied rants that basically said we stick to the surface of the planet becuse we are being pushed against it by stellar radiation. This came from "The Society for Pushing Gravity Research"

I never figured out if it was a joke.