Gay Bomb - and I'm still irritable
http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_159222541.html
Yeah, so that's pretty funny, but it was in 1994 that it apparently got started, and that was around when He Who Shall Not Be Named popularized Grunge, so I'm assuming a certain amount of nationwide insanity was involved.
Also note that the "gay" part of it was probably because there are fewer chicks around during war, generally speaking, and so making someone ultra horny is only going to piss them off if there are only guys around - unless ... wait, what if we put something in the bomb so they start trying to hump the other members of their fireteam? Even if it only strongly affected one in ten of the enemy, can you imagine the chaos?!
The reason that I'm posting this is because I feel it is important to point out the statement at the end of the article by the activist fellow.
Note that this goes back to what I was threatening to kill you all for earlier this evening.
Gay community leaders in California said Friday that they found the notion of a "gay bomb" both offensive and almost laughable at the same time.
"Throughout history we have had so many brave men and women who are gay and lesbian serving the military with distinction," said Geoff Kors of Equality California. "So, it's just offensive that they think by turning people gay that the other military would be incapable of doing their job. And its absurd because there's so much medical data that shows that sexual orientation is immutable and cannot be changed."
While I support his position that it is stupid and probably wouldn't work, he's an idiot if he thinks that science shows that sexual orientation is immutable. First of all, NO-thing is immutable. Assuming that the correct pressures can be applied, anything is changeable. On top of that suggesting that ANYTHING is an absolute for all of humanity is pure cognitive dissonance.
Next, and more important, Mr. Scoffing McScoffpants: if homosexuality is chemical/biological, which is the only way it could be immutable in the first place, then this gay bomb is not impossible conceptually. Again, you'd have to come up with a heck of a cocktail, and I suspect it would require nanos or something equally virulent rather than just chemicals ...
And this would be quite humane on top of that. Suppose you bomb an army and turn them all gay. After they surrender their country, you can give them the antidote and everything is back to normal - uh, well, you know, except their country is in your hands and stuff.
Finally, and this is my top issue: you people need to understand that winning a battle - and a war even moreso - consists of taking advantage of the countless incremental screw ups of the enemy more effectively than your opponent can take advantage of your screw ups. Adding stuff like a bomb that makes guys screw each other instead of fighting back, which again would only be an incremental problem for your enemy, may well add up to victory. At the least, the enemy is going to have to spend money figuring out what to do about it - gas masks or antidotes or whatever for that many soldiers cost money that they'd rather spend on Kalishnikovs or dessert or whatever.
Beyond THAT, a really good small group leader, maybe some spec ops dudes, could put this kind of thing to some especially effective use in very specific kinds of circumstances. Say a couple of guards in a key spot, where they think they won't get caught. You could sneak right past them, if you could make them ultra-horny and want to do each other.
And spies? Man, the stuff you could do with something that makes someone ultra-horny. The BLACKMAIL you could do to people who are in the kind of regime where homosexuality is Very Very Bad (Iran, for instance).
So if this was possible, it would be genius, and worth a metric truck-load of money.
I should probably mention that the ability to make people ultra-horny would be worth a lot to pharmaceutical companies.
And Bangbus would do billions. Hmmm. Or maybe they'd go out of business - all you and I would need would be a blowgun and a few moments alone with Heather Carolin (or whoever) to make our own movie.
And it would spawn a prostitute-turned-world-conqueror as the evil overlord for the next James Bond movie. What part of THAT wouldn't be awesome!?
Back to reality, it is of course all completely impossible, just like everything else good science fiction has come up with*, and that is just sad.
So, to reiterate:
I hate you, and I hope that you die slowly, your voice broken from screaming, all hope crushed.
* - For the stupid among you - or those worried that I might be stupid - this is an intentionally false statement, used to make a point.
Yeah, so that's pretty funny, but it was in 1994 that it apparently got started, and that was around when He Who Shall Not Be Named popularized Grunge, so I'm assuming a certain amount of nationwide insanity was involved.
Also note that the "gay" part of it was probably because there are fewer chicks around during war, generally speaking, and so making someone ultra horny is only going to piss them off if there are only guys around - unless ... wait, what if we put something in the bomb so they start trying to hump the other members of their fireteam? Even if it only strongly affected one in ten of the enemy, can you imagine the chaos?!
The reason that I'm posting this is because I feel it is important to point out the statement at the end of the article by the activist fellow.
Note that this goes back to what I was threatening to kill you all for earlier this evening.
Gay community leaders in California said Friday that they found the notion of a "gay bomb" both offensive and almost laughable at the same time.
"Throughout history we have had so many brave men and women who are gay and lesbian serving the military with distinction," said Geoff Kors of Equality California. "So, it's just offensive that they think by turning people gay that the other military would be incapable of doing their job. And its absurd because there's so much medical data that shows that sexual orientation is immutable and cannot be changed."
While I support his position that it is stupid and probably wouldn't work, he's an idiot if he thinks that science shows that sexual orientation is immutable. First of all, NO-thing is immutable. Assuming that the correct pressures can be applied, anything is changeable. On top of that suggesting that ANYTHING is an absolute for all of humanity is pure cognitive dissonance.
Next, and more important, Mr. Scoffing McScoffpants: if homosexuality is chemical/biological, which is the only way it could be immutable in the first place, then this gay bomb is not impossible conceptually. Again, you'd have to come up with a heck of a cocktail, and I suspect it would require nanos or something equally virulent rather than just chemicals ...
And this would be quite humane on top of that. Suppose you bomb an army and turn them all gay. After they surrender their country, you can give them the antidote and everything is back to normal - uh, well, you know, except their country is in your hands and stuff.
Finally, and this is my top issue: you people need to understand that winning a battle - and a war even moreso - consists of taking advantage of the countless incremental screw ups of the enemy more effectively than your opponent can take advantage of your screw ups. Adding stuff like a bomb that makes guys screw each other instead of fighting back, which again would only be an incremental problem for your enemy, may well add up to victory. At the least, the enemy is going to have to spend money figuring out what to do about it - gas masks or antidotes or whatever for that many soldiers cost money that they'd rather spend on Kalishnikovs or dessert or whatever.
Beyond THAT, a really good small group leader, maybe some spec ops dudes, could put this kind of thing to some especially effective use in very specific kinds of circumstances. Say a couple of guards in a key spot, where they think they won't get caught. You could sneak right past them, if you could make them ultra-horny and want to do each other.
And spies? Man, the stuff you could do with something that makes someone ultra-horny. The BLACKMAIL you could do to people who are in the kind of regime where homosexuality is Very Very Bad (Iran, for instance).
So if this was possible, it would be genius, and worth a metric truck-load of money.
I should probably mention that the ability to make people ultra-horny would be worth a lot to pharmaceutical companies.
And Bangbus would do billions. Hmmm. Or maybe they'd go out of business - all you and I would need would be a blowgun and a few moments alone with Heather Carolin (or whoever) to make our own movie.
And it would spawn a prostitute-turned-world-conqueror as the evil overlord for the next James Bond movie. What part of THAT wouldn't be awesome!?
Back to reality, it is of course all completely impossible, just like everything else good science fiction has come up with*, and that is just sad.
So, to reiterate:
I hate you, and I hope that you die slowly, your voice broken from screaming, all hope crushed.
* - For the stupid among you - or those worried that I might be stupid - this is an intentionally false statement, used to make a point.