The ventor of a method to extract vanilla agrance om w dung, ary velopers of chemil "gay bomb" and a team that rearched how sheets bee wrkled won Ig Nobel priz for 2007.
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- SCIENTISTS VELOPED 'GAY BOMB' TO MAKE ENEMY SOLDIERS STOP FIGHTG AND MAKE LOVE
- "GAY BOMB", W DUNG STUDY AMONG IG NOBEL WNERS
- THE U.S. MILARY'S IDTIC IA FOR A GAY BOMB
- MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
SCIENTISTS VELOPED 'GAY BOMB' TO MAKE ENEMY SOLDIERS STOP FIGHTG AND MAKE LOVE
'All's fair love and war,' the old proverb go. And one group of ary scientists certaly took the statement to heart when they signed a 'gay bomb' to make enemy soldiers irristible to each other * gay bomb chemistry *
The ia of a gay bomb me om a sire to bilate and distract their opponents but not necsarily kill them. Wikimedia CommonsThe gay bomb was a theoretil cloud of gas that would turn enemy soldiers gay.
The ncept of a “gay bomb” sounds like somethg out of a bad science fictn movie.
They put together a three-page proposal which they tailed their $7.5 ln ventn: the gay bomb.
"GAY BOMB", W DUNG STUDY AMONG IG NOBEL WNERS
The gay bomb would be a cloud of gas that would be discharged over enemy mps “that ntaed a chemil that would e enemy soldiers to bee gay, and to have their uns break down bee all their soldiers beme irristibly attractive to one another.”. Basilly, the pheromon the gas would turn the soldiers gay. The scientists ntued to suggt addns to the gay bomb, cludg aphrodisiacs, and other scents.
Thankfully, the gay bomb was only ever theoretil and never put to motn. Like the gay bomb, the creative chemil ias also never me to un. Dpe the drawbacks, for their work such an novative field, the rearchers who nceptualized the gay bomb were award the Ig Nobel Prize, a parody award which celebrat unual scientific achievements that “first make people lgh, and then make them thk.”.
The gay bomb certaly fs the bill for that one.
THE U.S. MILARY'S IDTIC IA FOR A GAY BOMB
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"All's fair love and war, " the old proverb one group of ary scientists certaly took the statement to heart when they signed a "gay bomb" to make enemy soldiers irristible to each other. BOSTON (Rters) - The ventor of a method to extract vanilla agrance om w dung, ary velopers of chemil “gay bomb” and a team that rearched how sheets bee wrkled won Ig Nobel priz for annual priz, award by the science humor magaze Annals of Improbable Rearch, were prented on Thursday eveng at a ceremony Cambridge, Massachetts, where the wners mt try to expla their work a mute or some awards clearly poke fun at popular culture, others are meant to provoke bate about science, honorg achievements that “first make people lgh, and then make them thk”, acrdg to the magaze.
MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
“Peace Prize” -- The Air Force Wright Laboratory, Dayton, Oh for stigatg rearch and velopment on a chemil weapon, the so-lled “gay bomb, ” that “will make enemy soldiers bee sexually irristible to each other”.
The gay 1994, the Wright Laboratory—part of the U. Ially, the three-page proposal suggted, the affected soldiers would fd their brothers--arms “sexually irristible” (per the BBC) and, per Fox News, noted that “[o]ne distasteful but pletely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, pecially if the chemil also ed homosexual behavr. ” The weapon lloquially took on the “gay bomb” moniker shortly after beg disvered by a ary spendg watchdog group via a Freedom of Informatn Act Laboratory (now funct, but not for the above) never received the fundg for further subscribe to Dan's daily email Now I Know, click here.
The "halosis bomb" and "gay bomb" are rmal nam for two theoretil non-lethal chemil weapons that a Uned Stat Air Force rearch laboratory speculated about producg; the theori volve dischargg female sex pheromon over enemy forc orr to make them sexually attracted to each other. Usg a bra imagg technique, Swedish rearchers have shown that homosexual and heterosexual mal' bras rpond differently to two odors that may be volved sexual aroal, and that the homosexual men rpond the same way as heterosexual women, though uld not be termed whether this was e or effect.[catn need] The study was expand to clu homosexual women; the rults were nsistent wh prev fdgs meang that homosexual women were not as rponsive to male intified odors, while their rponse to female cu was siar to that of heterosexual mal.[4] Acrdg to the rearchers, this rearch suggts a possible role for human pheromon the blogil basis of sexual orientatn.[5] In 2008, was found g functnal magic ronance imagg that the right orboontal rtex, right fiform rtex, and right hypothalam rpond to airborne natural human sexual sweat.[6]. In both of the documents, the possibily was nvassed that a strong aphrodisiac uld be dropped on enemy troops, ially one which would also e "homosexual behavr".