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[–] zepheriths@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] decadentrebel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] zepheriths@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Jembora hates videos, but yeah that's about right

[–] randomaside@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

" 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 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

'halitosis bomb'

Imagine a bomb that covers an area with tonsil stones.

[–] DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

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 points 1 year ago

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

[–] UtMan1988@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Make Love, Not War!"

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

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

"Make Love War"

[–] Lolman228@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They already tested it on the frogs

[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Should have used pandas.

[–] 520@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 points 1 year ago

'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 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wonder how the meeting where the idea was pitched went.

[–] RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Probably with a tent ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

A whole encampment!

[–] dumdum666@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

„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 points 1 year ago

They should just fill cluster bombs with ecstasy pills.

[–] rockstarpirate@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not so much creepy as hilarious

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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