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The US military have a WAY too big budget...
Jan 16 2005 09:44pm

Jacen Aratan
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4174519.stm

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Jan 19 2005 05:32pm

Raziel Anjelis
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ok the flatulence? Thatd make them laugh!
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Jan 18 2005 01:02am

Mic Den Octela
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 Mic Den Octela

Creepy, yet... no.... just creepy o.O
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Jan 17 2005 07:46pm

JavaGuy
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 JavaGuy

C3P0: The great Jabba asks why he must pay 50,000.
Bounty Hunter: [Jabbers in his own language and pulls out small round object.]
C3P0: Because he's holding the gay sex bomb!
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Jan 17 2005 06:56pm

Ashyr
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 Ashyr

Yeah, I honestly doubt they spent 7.5mil just coming up with these ideas. Sounds like a load of BS to me.
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Jan 17 2005 01:29pm

JavaGuy
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I'm pretty sure pheremoned perfumes are a scam. Years ago they became very popular, but double-blind tests (similar smelling perfumes with and without pheremones, the subject not knowing which he was wearing) show no difference. They work great on rats and squirrels, but human sexuality turns out to be a lot more complex.

Now maybe they've improved since then. You can certainly read lots of testimonials about how great they are. But testimonials mean squat. Show me a double-blind experiment.


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Jan 17 2005 12:37pm

Kueller
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 Kueller

Javaguy, we're closer to making men very attractive to women then you think. Think of pheromones, the only problem now is finding a universal one. Although some scents do work on a big majority of the males/females in the population. Hence the sometimes great effect of Axe for example :)
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Jan 17 2005 05:30am

JavaGuy
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 JavaGuy

Quote:
It would give the enemy severe bad breath so that if they try to slip away into the civilian population they could still be identified.


Where I live they'd blend right in. :D

Actually the "gay bomb" is not such a bad idea in terms of psychological warfare. Anything that radically changes the dynamic of how a group of soldiers interact with one another is going to disrupt the unit's fighting effectiveness. It's not that a gay soldier is any less effective, just that it introduces a sudden, radical change in the soldiers' lifestyle when they've got enough on their plates already trying to fight a war. The problem with the idea is that it is scientifically implausible. People have been trying for thousands of years to discover any kind of an aphrodesiac--the existence of the pickup-lines thread on this very forum demonstrates our utter failure to find one. If we found a way to make men irresistible to men, we'd be at least close to finding a way to make men irresistible to women, and the truth is we're nowhere near close to that.


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Jan 17 2005 05:16am

Buzz
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 Buzz

Funny how they gave that idea an entire article but left out the other reports. One of them I actually thought was a good idea. The Bad Breath Bomb. It would give the enemy severe bad breath so that if they try to slip away into the civilian population they could still be identified. Seems kind of silly but it also seems like a reasonable idea.
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Jan 17 2005 04:41am

JavaGuy
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 JavaGuy

It looks like they actually did conduct some research in this area... :eek:


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Jan 17 2005 03:45am

JavaGuy
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 JavaGuy

Uh, Dice, nobody disputes that. The point is that somebody in the taxpayer's dime spent some time giving this serious consideration. LOL.


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Jan 17 2005 01:00am

Dicemaster
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you ppl need to read better. It says, and i quote "Captain Dan McSweeney of the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate at the Pentagon said the defence department receives "literally hundreds" of project ideas, but that "none of the systems described in that [1994] proposal have been developed".

He told the BBC: "It's important to point out that only those proposals which are deemed appropriate, based on stringent human effects, legal, and international treaty reviews are considered for development or acquisition." "
meaning that this was someones stupid idea that never got followed up on
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Jan 17 2005 12:31am

JavaGuy
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 JavaGuy

This brings to an end the false dichotomy of "Make love, not war." It doesn't have to be one or the other.

This would make great fodder for an Enemy Territory mod. On the Seawall Battery map, in particular, it would give new meaning to infiltrating the rear entrance.


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Jan 17 2005 12:12am

Cheta T. Must
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 Cheta T. Must

...
there's pretty much not alot to say about a "gay bomb".
except..

WTF!!!!!!1111
make the enemy love eachother that plan sux!!!.

and i jsut read more 7.5mil for THAT!!!
dude i could of used that money better.




This comment was edited by Cheta T. Must on Jan 17 2005 12:16am.

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