Gay bomb - Speculative non-lethal chemical weapon by the USAF that could be dropped on enemy troops to cause "homosexual behaviour"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb

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zepheriths@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Sooo. After reading the wiki page the air force is wrong. It's not a gay bomb, it's a horny bomb. The bomb contains an aphrodisiac, which if strong enough would make soliders fuck anything. Also if I understand right, the study found that Homosexuality, is not something you can make happen. Because heterosexuals are not affected by sex hormones from the same gender.

chaosppe@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

And how do you make this horny bomb? Asking for a friend.

decadentrebel@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y (1 reply)

image

zepheriths@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

Jembora hates videos, but yeah that's about right

randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 2y (3 replies)

" It appears that a 'heavy sweating bomb', 'flatulence bomb' and 'halitosis bomb' were also considered by a committee at the time. The plan was to make an enemy so smelly they could be quite literally sniffed out of hiding by their opponents["

That's pretty metal

reflex@kbin.social · 6 pts · 2y
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DavidGarcia@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 2y

Should have thought about smelly bomb: 'Humans exposed to as little as 0.01 mg/m3 or less in air exude a foul garlic-like odor known as "tellurium breath".'

As far as I'm aware, this can persist for months.

ali@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y

"Ugh which one of you stinky dickheads was it this time?"
"I think it's all of us sarge!"

UtMan1988@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y (1 reply)

"Make Love, Not War!"

Wright Laboratory: What if... now hear us out...

reverendsteveii@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

"Make Love War"

Lolman228@kbin.social · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

They already tested it on the frogs

TheLowestStone@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Should have used pandas.

520@kbin.social · 7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Next they'll be putting chemicals in the water that turn the frigging frogs gay.

snooggums@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I bet that whole conspiracy story is a mashup of the gay bomb thing misconstrued with frogs reacting to pollution. They tend to be based on real things but twisted togetger into some nefarious plan by a shadowy cabal.

520@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y

'Gay bombs' are literally part of the same Alex Jones rant as the turning frogs gay thing. The whole thing is a glorious trainwreck that you must watch to believe

https://web.archive.org/web/20151103181828/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpiUfb7adPE

SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Wonder how the meeting where the idea was pitched went.

RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Probably with a tent ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

snooggums@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y

A whole encampment!

dumdum666@kbin.social · 5 pts · 2y

„Ig Nobel Prize awards
Wright Laboratory won the satiric 2007 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for "instigating research & development on a chemical weapon—the so-called 'gay bomb' / 'poof bomb'—that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other."

Hank@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y

They should just fill cluster bombs with ecstasy pills.

reverendsteveii@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

It's me. Whole battalions get gay AF when I show up.

rockstarpirate@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Not so much creepy as hilarious