Milary ws Ig Nobel peace prize for 'gay bomb' | New Scientist

Contents:

• IN 1994, THE U.S. MILARY ACTUALLY CONSIRED BUILDG A “GAY BOMB”
• AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY
• MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
• THE GAY BOMB: A REAL THG THE US MILARY CONSIRED
• “GAY BOMBS: EXPLODG, REMAPPG TOPOLOGI OF QUEERNS” PRENTED BY BLAS
• GAY BOMB
• THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB
• THE “GAY” BOMB; Y…REALLY…
• THE US MILARY ONCE CONSIRED MAKG A ‘GAY BOMB’
• THE GAY BOMB

IN 1994, THE U.S. MILARY ACTUALLY CONSIRED BUILDG A “GAY BOMB”

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.

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.

AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY

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.

MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR '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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"One distasteful but non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, pecially if the chemil also ed homosexual behavur, " says the proposal om the Air Force's Wright Laboratory Dayton, Pentagon did not ny that the proposal had been ma: "The partment of fence is mted to intifyg, rearchg and velopg non-lethal weapons that will support our men and women uniform. "Aaron Belk, director of the Universy of California's Michael Palm Centre, which studi the issue of gays the ary, said: "The ia that you uld subm someone to some aerosol spray and change their sexual behavur is ludicro.

THE GAY BOMB: A REAL THG THE US MILARY CONSIRED

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.

“GAY BOMBS: EXPLODG, REMAPPG TOPOLOGI OF QUEERNS” PRENTED BY BLAS

In 1994, weapon velopers pched a "gay bomb" to the Uned Stat ary. " It was supposed to turn s victims homosexual, the assumptn beg that enemy soldiers' new and stantaneo attractn to one another would superse the importance of even the most heated battle.

You know those gays -- when any two meet, at any time, unr any circumstanc, they stantly start humpg, even if they're currently beg shot at. The tle of the document proposg the "gay bomb, " amongst other thgs?

Gay bombs: explodg, remappg topologi of queerns. ’ This news brief publicly announced US Air Force rearch on the now supposedly funct velopment of a ‘gay bomb.

GAY BOMB

’ Proposed 1994 at the Wright Laboratory Dayton, Oh, the gay bomb is fed as an aphrodisiac chemil that ‘would make enemy soldiers “sexually irristible” to each other.

’ Ined, the gay bomb, which was signed to be a six-year velopment project stg $7.

5 ln, ‘would provoke wispread homosexual behavur among troops, g what the ary lled a “distasteful but pletely non-lethal” blow to morale. ’ That the gay bomb would explo to immoraly, tonatg a public shamg upon s victims, pre-suppos rampant homophobia, for the act of homosexual sex and of self do not promise feat or surrenr.

THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB

Yet, given the US ary’s nflatn of gay (here, fed as homosexual sex) wh weapon, seems that the ary ponred war not love. 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. 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".

THE “GAY” BOMB; Y…REALLY…

Wright Laboratory won the 2007 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for "stigatg rearch & velopment on a chemil weapon—the so-lled 'gay bomb' / 'poof bomb' —that will make enemy soldiers bee sexually irristible to each other. 30 Rock, a s which featured a workg gay bomb the episo Cooter. Brickleberry, a s whose sixth episo Gay Bomb volv a gay bomb.

"Gay Men are found to have Different Scent of Attractn. "Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb'". "Pentagon once mulled 'gay bomb' to promote love not war".

THE US MILARY ONCE CONSIRED MAKG A ‘GAY BOMB’

"The Gay bomb", Michael Smh, The Telegraph, 15 January 2005. "Gay Bomb, For Real".

THE GAY BOMB

Gay Charlton: A Charlton Cy Paper Blog. "The Air Forc' Gay Weapon".

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