wow, um....

[excantare]

I'm not sure if this is believably (even for the yanks) but apparently the Pentagon tried to build a gay bomb i.e. a bomb to turn the enemy soldiers "gay, and therefore unable to defend themselves".

o__0?!? Surely this is a hoax, right? Like the vegemite thing?

Meanwhile, Life of Mars last night: Gene dancing + Sam dancing = *guh* + *thud* (also

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[ozfille]

I was wrong it was back in 2005 when the magazine New Scientist printed an article on this and other whacko ideas. This is a section I must of re-posted in my journal -

Gay bombs: US secret weapon plan
January 14, 2005 - 3:05PM

A US plan to develop a bad breath bomb and a chemical weapon to make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other has been revealed in newly declassified documents.

New Scientist's web site reports that the documents show the Pentagon considered a range of non-lethal chemical weapons aimed at disrupting enemy discipline and morale.

The "sex bomb" idea would cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale, it states.

Also considered were concoctions that would be irresistible to wasps or angry rats to render enemy bases uninhabitable.

And there was the bad breath bomb idea - a weapon that caused "severe and lasting halitosis" to make it easier to sniff out spies.

Other ideas dating back to 1994 from the US Air Force Wright Laboratory in Ohio included making soldiers' skin react painfully to sunlight.

The lab sought Pentagon funding for research into what it called "harassing, annoying and 'bad guy'-identifying chemicals". The plans have been posted online by the Sunshine Project, an organisation that exposes research into chemical and biological weapons.

Spokesman Edward Hammond told New Scientists it was not known if the $7.5 million research proposal was ever pursued.