Pentagon wanted "Sex Bomb?"
 

OK. I heard this on the radio about 3 hours ago, but didn't pass it along then because I thought it was a joke. However, it is now being reported at several news sites overseas. I'm going to check snopes, but figured it was at least worth posting at this point.

"a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow...



You can say that again! :D

We could of caught them with their pants down.

Best. Line. Ever.

Does it look like a giant penis as it flies through the air?

Yep...I have that in iTunes...

Do Not Taunt Sex Bomb

LOL! This is a great find Skydog. :D Some really funny stuf there.

I just find it a little creepy that they were trying to make a bomb to make soldiers homosexually attracted to one another. This would be interesting to bring up when the next "gay by choice vs gay by birth" flame war breaks out.

SI

Just like we always hear about NASA, this could have a lot of potential spin-off value for commercial and recreational use among civilians.

Esp. under the Clinton Admin, huh?

That is horrible... :D

You got something against Storm Troopers?

Give me anthrax. At least you'd be dead. Imagine the horror of waking up after that stuff wore off.

That guy is still cracking me up. :)

sex bomb?

had to delete the
evgeny plushenko ice show "sex bomb" post. Somewhere i messed up on formatting.

Theres only so much blantent homosexual ice skating overatures that a message board can take before it loses it.

Since you asked for it.



:D

Military considered developing 'gay bomb'.....
 

http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_159222541.html

Man, Bubba's probably hiding out in fear of being "infected"...

They could have just gave them an energy drink.

As laughable as this idea is, I think the target here was more to create a sexual instinct than turning someone gay. Since nearly all of the soldiers would be men, I think they came up with the "gay" part of this as a means to the end. Had the military units been 50/50 men and women, they still would have posed this idea as a way to make the units attracted to each other. But of course, this story has more legs if you throw the gay thing out there as the crux of the story.

Why they just didn't ask Cupid how he does it, and saved the money, is my question!

I had pretty much the same take as you. This is someone trying to get more legs out of a story than it really deserves.

On my command, "Gas, gas, gas," you're gonna don your protective ass cover, make sure they're sealed soldier!

Well, the idea is straight out of a bad sci fi movie, so it deserves some press. But the gay angle is really unncessary and somewhat misleading.

At least it happened while Clinton was in the WH, so the gay angle couldn't be fully blown out of proportion. This was clearly an example of his "don't ask, don't tell" policy - they shouldn't have asked for money to conduct this kind of BS experiment, and I'm sure he didn't want them telling anyone someone made this proposal!

Sorry, this isn't from the Onion?

If there was a chemical that had the potential to make anyone you want so desperate for sex that they would even seek out the opposite gender if they had to, that could be developed for $7.5M, it would already be made and both you and I would have an order on backorder.

So you're saying it's Clinton's fault that we're not all having sex with whomever we want, whenever we want? :) Or maybe he did authorize this, but kept the trial packets for himself?

I remember this, um, coming out a few years ago. I was curious about the proposed design because, as far as I know, any chemical that might be capable of doing that sort of thing (oxytocin?) could never get through the blood-brain barrier by inhalation. As I recall, though, they didn't actually have a real design--they were just tossing ideas around.

Also, wouldn't this violate chemical weapons treaties?

No, that's the Puritans' fault. Damn blue laws...

And that would stop the US military from using it because...???

I have never heard of something so diabolical since the Nude Bomb.

I'm putting 2 + 2 together here....

Now I think I know the REAL reason we were so paranoid about the Canadian's "poppy coin." The whole "radio frequency transmitter" thing was just a cover. Those coins were specially formulated to counteract the effects of our Love Potion Bombs!!! :eek:

I don't find this surprising at all. In fact, I recall hearing something along these lines a few years ago.

set us up teh ghey bomb k plz thx bye!

Yeh, I just looked it up: it's the same thing I read about a few years ago. And, having just read the actual document, it seems to have been completely blown out of proportion.

The short, three-page R&D proposal actually describes three categories of potentially useful, non-lethal chemical weapons. Some of the ideas actually sound pretty good (e.g.: marking criminals/combatants with a persistent odor perceptable only to trained dogs). There is only one paragraph mentioning homosexuality, and only in the context of a larger category of chemicals that could afffect behavior. In doing so they only mention it as a hypothetical "example" and note that the idea is "distasteful." Here is whole paragraph, in context:


That's it. The $7.5 million figure quoted in the article was an estimate for R&D for entire project, including all three categories of chemicals.

Once again, facts get in the way of a good story.

Man, that's funny!!! :p

Ah, good, election year politics heating up (else why bring this up again?).

Noting, of course, that an "election year" is really 2.5 calendar years, or about 1,000,000,000 stress years.

Who wants to tell him?

http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/...2&postcount=23

The threads have been merged. I had forgotten about it until whomever dug up the old one and merged it with the new one.

Do I win?

Yeah, I know. I was just kidding around -- I had to quote this very thread to do it.

Yeah, I guess so. I don't know who wins, but I lose.

Can I get one of these bombs?

I can just see going home one night, "Hey hon, man do I have a bomb to drop tonight!"