From sword-swallowg to a 'gay' bomb.
Contents:
- 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. 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. 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.
MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
The scientists ntued to suggt addns to the gay bomb, cludg aphrodisiacs, and other scents.
THE "GAY BOMB" AND MEDIL APHRODISIACS
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.”.
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GAY BOMB AND BMJ THORS W PRIZ
Former Nobel lreat and other rearchers at Harvard award the 2007 Ig Nobel Peace Prize to the creators of the "gay bomb" -- a non-lethal ary weapon unr velopment tend to duce moralizg homosexual behavr wh aphrodisiacs. From sword-swallowg to a 'gay' bomb. Dubbed the 'gay bomb'?
Dpe the mers of the petg ncepts, none had que the 'legs', so to speak, of the gay Ig Nobels? But the gay bomb would never have basked their glow had not been for the Sunshe Project At, Texas.
The group's director Edward Hammond ught wd of the report when he saw a promotnal CD-ROM of 'non-lethal weapons', promptg him to seek all supportg documents unr the Freedom of Informatn fate of the gay bomb project is unclear, says Ig Nobel imprar Marc Abrahams, who was told by former lab staff that? If rearch on the gay bomb had proceed further, would have immediately been stamped secret, and neher you nor I would have any way of knowg about .?
GAY BOMB AND BMJ THORS W PRIZ
The Ig Nobel awards, given for science that “first mak you lgh, then mak you thk, ” were given to recipients om five ntents by six wners of the actual Nobel prize last week at Harvard unual weapon, nfirmed by Pentagon sourc, is a “gay bomb” (, 12 Jun, “Sunshe project unvers US ary ‘gay bomb'”).
THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB
The project, which officials say has now been scrapped, was to e up wh a vice to release unspecified hormon that uld be absorbed through the sk or lungs, thereby pacatg soldiers who—acrdg to the plan—would be too by swoong over each other homosexual ecstasy to waste any time dashg about plantg roadsi Pentagon did not rpond to quiri om the BMJ about possible future plans for s “make love not war” Wbe, a nsultant radlogist om Gloucter, won this year's Ig Nobel medice prize for his article the BMJ, “Sword swallowg and s si effects” (BMJ 2006;333:1285-7, doi: 10.
Gay bomb and BMJ...
Gay bomb and BMJ thors w priz. Air Force, produced a three page proposal for a “gay bomb” Google AI Search, I Don’t Need to Learn About the “Benefs of Slavery” OffEnglishDocumentatn obtaed by the Sunshe Project, an anti-blogil weapons non-ernmental anizatn, found that the Oh-based Wright Lab requted a 6 year, $7.