From sword-swallowg to a 'gay' bomb.
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- MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
- MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
- THE "GAY BOMB" AND MEDIL APHRODISIACS
- GAY BOMB AND BMJ THORS W PRIZ
- GAY BOMB AND BMJ THORS W PRIZ
- THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB
MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
The Ig Nobel peace prize went to the US Air Force’s Wright Laboratory Oh for s 1994 plan to velop a weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irristible to one another, an ia later dubbed the “gay bomb”. Details of the scheme were unvered a classified document (pdf) that suggts a strong aphrodisiac would be “pletely non-lethal” but uld be serly disptive “pecially if the chemil also ed homosexual behavur.
The ia of a gay bomb me om a sire to bilate and distract their opponents but not necsarily kill them.
MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
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.
THE "GAY BOMB" AND MEDIL APHRODISIACS
They put together a three-page proposal which they tailed their $7.5 ln ventn: the gay bomb.
GAY BOMB AND BMJ THORS W PRIZ
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.
GAY BOMB AND BMJ THORS W PRIZ
Like the gay bomb, the creative chemil ias also never me to un.
THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB
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.
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