Friday, January 14, 2005

Science: Queer Eye for the Enemy Soldier Guy

People will always get paid to think up weird shit. That's the nature of scientific endeavor. But horny bombs??

The Pentagon considered developing a host of non-lethal chemical weapons that would disrupt discipline and morale among enemy troops, newly declassified documents reveal.

Most bizarre among the plans was one for the development of an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other. Provoking widespread homosexual behavior among troops would cause a "distasteful but completely non-lethal" blow to morale, the proposal says...

I mean, wouldn't it just be easier (and cheaper) to airdrop portable DVD players behind enemy lines, programmed with episodes of Will and Grace?

Jeebus.