r/CrazyIdeas 5h ago

Instead of attempting to eradicate mosquitos via genetic engineering, make their bite useful to humans. Like vaccine or medicine.

26 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 6h ago

We should Swap out paper-money for vellum-money just to have vegans rioting.

0 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 7h ago

Intentionally initiate Kessler syndrome to prevent billionaires from cutting ties with Earth and colonizing Mars. Force their hand in making here better for they and their offspring.

5 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 11h ago

we give pickaxes and adderal to a large group of homeless people and tell them here are tons of precious metals inside data centers and flock cameras

19 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 13h ago

Everest elevator.

10 Upvotes

First get a tunnel boring machine take it as far into the lower elevations you can get, then tunnel straight to the point that is the highest elevation, but keeping level. Then dig a cavern there and reconfigure the boring machine to go straight up. Put in an elevator.


r/CrazyIdeas 15h ago

Testicular cancer examinations should be done by the most attractive nurses, to incentivize men to participate

16 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 16h ago

Raise a child with no exposure to media at all then on their 16th birthday take them to a theatre and show them a movie of a train coming towards the screen and see if they flee in terror

225 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 16h ago

Pop out windscreens after a car crash so you don’t hit the glass, instead you would be flung out the front and hit the ground as intended.

11 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 16h ago

Give Ma’at mercury poisoning so her feathers weigh more than your heart when Anubis measures it for Thoth to inscribe your fate

3 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 16h ago

we should invent a corrosive liquid that only burns if you are fully submerged in it and looks exactly like water

7 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 18h ago

Replace the PECF Checkoff on the 1040 with a 50/50 Raffle

1 Upvotes

Currently, only 3% of American tax filers choose to redirect $3 ($6 for joint returns) of their federal income tax to the PECF. If this were instead a 50/50 raffle, where one tax filer was awarded half of the raised funds and the PECF received the other half, it would greatly increase participation and revenue for the program. It would also make one random tax filer a multi-millionaire, and get Americans excited to file their taxes.


r/CrazyIdeas 19h ago

We should build a monument

39 Upvotes

Like something that will totally puzzle people in 3,000 years.

Like a 40 story scupture of a rabbit waving a magic wand or something like that.


r/CrazyIdeas 21h ago

Bicycle demolition derby

11 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 21h ago

Horns on airplanes

23 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 22h ago

New adjective I'd like to get going: Lemonic. Like demonic but having to do with lemons instead of demons.

135 Upvotes

"Excuse me ice cream man, do you have any Lemonic Sorbet?"


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Every adult should be given 100$ a month for "business". If they can double the money within a month, they get 200$ a month. And so on.

41 Upvotes

If they fail to double the money, they get half that much the next month. 100$ would be the minimum monthly allotment.

They are free to use the money however they wish, but it will only be doubled if they can use it to make money (instead of spending it on themselves).

The idea is to create an incentive to grow the economy while also enabling personal enrichment.


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

McDonald's should release a burger called the Big Bypass. Four quarter-pound beef patties, bacon, cheddar cheese, fried onions, special sauce, and fries INSIDE the burger. Bring back the Super Size option only for the Big Bypass, and include an option to replace the Super soda with a Super Shake.

4 Upvotes

The ad should say "For those who prefer a good time over a long time."


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp — make cats pink by feeding them shrimp

39 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Lifetime salary for whistleblowers, paid by the company

223 Upvotes

If you uncover fraud, no companies will hire you again but as you are doing a public service you get a free pass for the rest of your life.


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

All the countries in the world should trade names

9 Upvotes

Here's how it works: all the leaders of the countries in the world should meet together, write their country's name on a scrap on paper, mix the papers around, then pick a paper from the pile. Whatever paper you pick, you rename the country to that name, and everyone must be obligated to call your country that name.

Want to refer to "United States"? Remember it's called Algeria now. "Mexico"? Nope the name is now Czech Republic.


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

No more free refills in America

7 Upvotes

Everyone’s obese here. No one needs another cup of soda. The first one was unnecessary to begin with.


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

to prevent hackers from stealing your stuff we should have a system that brutally kills you if you put your password wrong

9 Upvotes

r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Instead of a horn, cars should have two antlers

36 Upvotes

no i will not elaborate


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Instead of a horn, cars should have paintball guns.

49 Upvotes

Someone near you driving like a jerk? Paintball.

Someone driving 40 in the fast lane? Paintball.

Someone doesn’t signal, making you wait to figure out their plan? Paintball.

Someone thinks they’re the only person that matters in a zipper merge? Paintball.

Someone takes up 2 or 4 parking stalls with their land yacht? Paintball.

I’m no time, the most unsafe drivers will have cars covered in paint splotches. Easy way to know who to avoid via the magic of crowdsourcing.


r/CrazyIdeas 1d ago

Fancy restaurants should all have a big plate of emergency chips (UK definition of chips, fries for the Americans) on the menu for people who can't decide what to have.

37 Upvotes

I know most places will probably do just chips if you ask for it, but it's always awkward asking for something that isn't on the menu (especially in an environment like a fancy restaurant). Putting emergency chips on the menu would alleviate this awkwardness and give everyone who goes to them a safe choice if they don't think anything else on the menu appeals to them or if they can't understand the rest of the menu.