The mysterious case of the 'gay-bomb' request (WTF?)

[LetsGoMurphys]

Daft military research proposals
By Lucy Sherriff
Published Tuesday 18th January 2005 11:37 GMT

The US military, planned to use stink bombs, chemicals that cause bad breath, and a so-called "gay-bomb" that would make enemy soldiers irresistible to one another as part of a range of non-lethal, but disruptive and morale-damaging weapons.

An Air Force laboratory in Ohio applied for $7.5m funding to develop these, and other similar ideas described as "harassing, annoying and 'bad guy'-identifying chemicals". The 1994 proposal was uncovered by The Sunshine Project, a chemical weapons watchdog group.

Please read on this is on of the more insane things I have ever read.

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/01/18/mil_research_proposal/>

[LeftyMom]

1. That sounds like a really bad premise for a porn movie nt

[noonwitch]

4. Or a really good premise for a mock-porn film

Or just like something the Nixon administration thought of in 1971 to use against war protestors.

[MADem]

6. Either that, or a South Park episode.... n/t

[ThomCat]

2. A Gay-Bomb sounds like a great way

to jump-start a party. Hell, where can I get one of those?

[mr_hat]

3. It would only be a matter of time before gaydar saw it coming.

[ronnykmarshall]

5. They're gonna drop E?

Sounds like a big circuit party to me.

[Monk06]

7. Must have got the idea from.....................

Flesh Gordon (1972)

and

the Nude Bomb (1980)

not to mention the orgasmatron in

Sleeper (1982)

Non of these movies had a $7.5 million budget.

[gatorboy]

8. "gay-bomb"?

Wasn't that in the Get Smart movie?