XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: jacksonatcorey4@email.net   
      
   Promises Promises wrote:   
      
   > "In 1994, The U.S. Military Actually Considered Building A “Gay Bomb”"   
   >   
   > "The idea of a gay bomb came from a desire to debilitate and distract   
   > their opponents but not necessarily kill them."   
   >   
   >    
   >   
   > "The concept of a “gay bomb” sounds like something out of a bad   
   > science fiction movie. A bomb that would drop a mixture of chemicals   
   > on the enemy and literally make them fall in love with one another to   
   > distract them from their wartime duties seems like such an   
   > impossible, far-fetched, ludicrous plan that no one could ever   
   > possibly attempt it, right?   
   >   
   > Wrong.   
   >   
   > In 1994, the US Department of Defense was looking into theoretical   
   > chemical weapons that would disrupt enemy morale, debilitating enemy   
   > soldiers but not going so far as to kill them. So, researchers at the   
   > Wright Laboratory in Ohio, a predecessor to today’s the United States   
   > Air Force Research Laboratory, began exploring some alternative   
   > options.   
   >   
   > What existed, they asked, that would distract or delude a soldier   
   > long enough to mount an attack, without causing the soldier any   
   > bodily harm?   
   >   
   > The answer seemed obvious: sex. But how could the airforce make that   
   > work to their advantage? In an act of brilliance (or insanity) they   
   > came up with the perfect secret plan.   
   >   
   > They put together a three-page proposal in which they detailed their   
   > $7.5 million invention: the gay bomb. The gay bomb would be a cloud   
   > of gas that would be discharged over enemy camps “that contained a   
   > chemical that would cause enemy soldiers to become gay, and to have   
   > their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistibly   
   > attractive to one another.”   
   >   
   > Basically, the pheromones in the gas would turn the soldiers gay.   
   > Which sounds totally legit, obviously.   
   >   
   > Of course, very few studies have actually produced results that back   
   > this proposal up, but that didn’t stop them. The scientists continued   
   > to suggest additions to the gay bomb, including aphrodisiacs, and   
   > other scents.   
   >   
   > Swarm Of Wasps   
   > Wikimedia Commons   
   > One theory suggested using a smell that would attract a swarm of   
   > angry bees.   
   >   
   > Thankfully, the gay bomb was only ever theoretical and never put into   
   > motion. However, it was proposed to the National Academy of Sciences   
   > in 2002 and sparked a series of other, equally unusual chemical   
   > warfare ideas.   
   >   
   > In the next few years, scientists theorized a “sting me/attack me”   
   > bomb, which would drop a scent that attracted swarms of enraged   
   > wasps, and one that would make skin suddenly unbelievably sensitive   
   > to the sun. They also proposed one that would cause “severe and   
   > lasting halitosis,” though it’s not entirely clear what they hoped to   
   > achieve by just giving their enemies bad breath.   
   >   
   > Among the more comical ideas was a bomb titled “Who? Me?” which   
   > simulated flatulence among the ranks, hopefully distracting the   
   > soldiers with terrible smells long enough for the U.S. to attack.   
   > That idea was scrapped almost immediately, however, after researchers   
   > pointed out that some people throughout the world don’t find the   
   > smell of flatulence particularly offensive.   
   >   
   > Like the gay bomb, these creative chemical ideas also never came to   
   > fruition. According to Captain Dan McSweeney of the Joint Non-Lethal   
   > Weapons Directorate at the Pentagon, the department of defense   
   > receives “hundreds” of projects per year, but none of these   
   > particular theories ever took off.   
   >   
   > “None of the systems described in that [1994] proposal have been   
   > developed,” he said.   
   >   
   > Despite the drawbacks, for their work in such an innovative field,   
   > the researchers who conceptualized the gay bomb were awarded the Ig   
   > Nobel Prize, a parody award which celebrates unusual scientific   
   > achievements that “first make people laugh, and then make them think.”   
   >   
   > The gay bomb certainly fits the bill for that one"   
      
   Hilarious!   
      
   "Scotty, warp factor 9 and arm the faggot guns".   
      
   Scotty "release the faggot bombs"   
      
   Aye, aye captain!   
   That will take care of those quiffs.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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