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

Contents:

• IN 1994, THE U.S. MILARY ACTUALLY CONSIRED BUILDG A “GAY BOMB”
• GAY BOMB
• MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'
• AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY
• GAY BOMB: STORY BEHD THE STORY
• THE GAY BOMB: A REAL THG THE US MILARY CONSIRED
• WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB
• THE U.S. MILARY ONCE PROPOSED A “GAY” BOMB
• GAY CALIFORNIA LEGISLATOR GETS 2ND BOMB THREAT THIS YEAR

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.

GAY BOMB

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.

MILARY WS IG NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR 'GAY BOMB'

After readg about the theoretil gay bomb, check out the super real Bat Bomb. 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".

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.

AIR FORCE LOOKED AT SPRAY TO TURN ENEMY GAY

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

GAY BOMB: STORY BEHD THE STORY

Gay Charlton: A Charlton Cy Paper Blog. "The Air Forc' Gay Weapon". "Jonathan Kay on the Pentagon's plan to build a 'gay bomb': Why is this 2005 story news aga?

"The Gay Bomb, wh parody diagram". Gay Bomb.

US ary planned 'gay bomb'. Air force looked at spray to turn enemy gay. Air Force Consired Gay 'Love Bomb' Agast Enemi.

THE GAY BOMB: A REAL THG THE US MILARY CONSIRED

US Milary "Gay Bomb" Vio. Gay bomb plan by US.

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.

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ENOLA GAY AFTER IT DROPPED THE ATOMIC BOMB

And th the "gay bomb" was born. "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.

I remember the Gay Bomb story, havg vered New Scientist a uple of years ago -- -- right after Noah ma his ial report -- and beg amed by the subsequent media tert. And granted, the "Gay Bomb" never received any feral fundg. *We know about the "Gay Bomb" bee of the Sunshe Project's work – and bee was bizarre and tchy enough to get the media's attentn.

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

Do gay uns really have bad disciple?

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 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATOR GETS 2ND BOMB THREAT THIS YEAR

If you’re gay, bls you.