The gay bomb (that's what it is dubbed)

[We Never Know]

I had never heard of this. Have you? I'm not sure if I laughed because it was funny or stupid, maybe both.

The "gay bomb" and "halitosis bomb" are formal names for two, non-lethalpsychochemical weapons that a United States Air Force research laboratory speculated about producing;

Wright Laboratory won the 2007 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for "instigating research & development on a chemical weapon—the so-called 'gay bomb' / 'poof bomb'—that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other."

Gay bomb - Wikipedia

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I can't wait till I forget about that one again, lol.

 

[Revoltingest]

Delivered by the Enola Gay?

 

[dybmh]

can u imagine if something like that was included in a first-person shooter video game?

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Delivered by the Enola Gay?

Aaaawwwgggghhh! And other groans from the audience.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

I had never heard of this. Have you? I'm not sure if I laughed because it was funny or stupid, maybe both.

The "gay bomb" and "halitosis bomb" are formal names for two, non-lethalpsychochemical weapons that a United States Air Force research laboratory speculated about producing;

Wright Laboratory won the 2007 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for "instigating research & development on a chemical weapon—the so-called 'gay bomb' / 'poof bomb'—that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other."

Gay bomb - Wikipedia

I have not heard of those specific projects, but I am aware that our government has involved itself in a lot of whacky research with serious intentions of success. I do not know the name of it, but I have a vague awareness of a project to develop a feces or feces odor delivery system or something like that to be deployed against the Japanese during World War II. I do not know what the 'halitosis bomb' was supposed to be, but it sounds like it might have been along the same lines.

The Japanese had a late war project called 'cherry blossoms by night' that was a more lethal germ warfare project. Bugs in bombs. In this case the bugs were human pathogens. They killed several hundred thousand people experimenting and testing it. I think they dropped them on the Chinese, but they never made it to the states.

 

[Brickjectivity]

I had never heard of this. Have you? I'm not sure if I laughed because it was funny or stupid, maybe both.

The "gay bomb" and "halitosis bomb" are formal names for two, non-lethalpsychochemical weapons that a United States Air Force research laboratory speculated about producing;

Wright Laboratory won the 2007 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for "instigating research & development on a chemical weapon—the so-called 'gay bomb' / 'poof bomb'—that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other."

Gay bomb - Wikipedia

You've got to admit it could potentially end warfare as we know it.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

You've got to admit it could potentially end warfare as we know it.

Yeah. Probably so. Would have given a whole new ending to the 'The Great Escape'.

 

[ManSinha]

You've got to admit it could potentially end warfare as we know it

Realigning neuro transmitters on steroids? That would appear to be an oxymoron - but there is "Lust at first sight" so who knows?

 

[SomeRandom]

Behold the majesty of.........The Gay Bomb!

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

my first thought was the ending of The Men Who Stare at Goats...

 

[beenherebeforeagain]

And then there was The Nude Bomb...

Which was very much a bomb...

 

[dybmh]

You've got to admit it could potentially end warfare as we know it.

... and repression... as we know it.

 

[PruePhillip]

I have not heard of those specific projects, but I am aware that our government has involved itself in a lot of whacky research with serious intentions of success. I do not know the name of it, but I have a vague awareness of a project to develop a feces or feces odor delivery system or something like that to be deployed against the Japanese during World War II. I do not know what the 'halitosis bomb' was supposed to be, but it sounds like it might have been along the same lines.

The Japanese had a late war project called 'cherry blossoms by night' that was a more lethal germ warfare project. Bugs in bombs. In this case the bugs were human pathogens. They killed several hundred thousand people experimenting and testing it. I think they dropped them on the Chinese, but they never made it to the states.

This reminds me of the SETI project. It's unlikely we will contact aliens. But
someone needs to do the research because we will look more stupid if we
never looked when something was there, than in looking and finding nothing.
Most things researched never pan out - but you have to consider it. And
besides, in war, anything is preferable to mass slaughter.

 

[We Never Know]

I have not heard of those specific projects, but I am aware that our government has involved itself in a lot of whacky research with serious intentions of success. I do not know the name of it, but I have a vague awareness of a project to develop a feces or feces odor delivery system or something like that to be deployed against the Japanese during World War II. I do not know what the 'halitosis bomb' was supposed to be, but it sounds like it might have been along the same lines.

The Japanese had a late war project called 'cherry blossoms by night' that was a more lethal germ warfare project. Bugs in bombs. In this case the bugs were human pathogens. They killed several hundred thousand people experimenting and testing it. I think they dropped them on the Chinese, but they never made it to the states.

There is no telling what they have tried and done that's hidden in the confidential/secret files. War is war. No one wants to play fair, they only want to win.

 

[We Never Know]

And then there was The Nude Bomb...

Which was very much a bomb...

Tequila is the nude bomb

 

[We Never Know]

You've got to admit it could potentially end warfare as we know it.

But not all the "shooting"

 

[Dan From Smithville]

There is no telling what they have tried and done that's hidden in the confidential/secret files. War is war. No one wants to play fair, they only want to win.

There are probably a lot wild ideas that received funding. I think the CIA was fond of off the wall--as opposed to outside the box--research.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

This reminds me of the SETI project. It's unlikely we will contact aliens. But
someone needs to do the research because we will look more stupid if we
never looked when something was there, than in looking and finding nothing.
Most things researched never pan out - but you have to consider it. And
besides, in war, anything is preferable to mass slaughter.

Wasn't that premise of a Star Trek episode where warfare was run by computers?

 

[ImmortalFlame]

What if all the gay bomb did was make you fabulous?