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Posted: Oct 04 2007 08:31 pm

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Pioneering research into a "gay bomb" that makes enemy troops "sexually irresistible" to each other has scooped one of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes.

2007 Ig Nobel Winners

Medicine - Brain Witcombe, of Gloucestershire Royal NHS Foundation Trust, UK, and Dan Meyer for their probing work on the health consequences of swallowing a sword.

Physics - A US-Chile team who ironed out the problem of how sheets become wrinkled.

Biology - Dr Johanna van Bronswijk of the Netherlands for carrying out a creepy crawly census of all of the mites, insects, spiders, ferns and fungi that share our beds.

Chemistry - Mayu Yamamoto, from Japan, for developing a method to extract vanilla fragrance and flavouring from cow dung.

Linguistics - A University of Barcelona team for showing that rats are unable to tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and somebody speaking Dutch backwards.

Literature - Glenda Browne of Blue Mountains, Australia, for her study of the word "the", and how it can flummox those trying to put things into alphabetical order.

Peace - The US Air Force Wright Laboratory for instigating research and development on a chemical weapon that would provoke widespread homosexual behaviour among enemy troops.

Nutrition - Brian Wansink of Cornell University for investigating the limits of human appetite by feeding volunteers a self-refilling, "bottomless" bowl of soup.

Economics - Kuo Cheng Hsieh of Taiwan for patenting a device that can catch bank robbers by dropping a net over them.

Aviation - A National University of Quilmes, Argentina, team for discovering that impotency drugs can help hamsters to recover from jet lag.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7026150.stm
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Posted: Oct 04 2007 08:35 pm

How the fuck would that help us? Then they would just have buttsex before shooting us.

Posted: Oct 04 2007 09:20 pm

I think the idea is to kill them WHILE they're having buttsex.

Moral? No. Effective? Yes.

Posted: Oct 04 2007 09:22 pm

I think they should be able to hold a gun and take it up the ass at the same time. They're trained soldiers.

Posted: Oct 04 2007 10:51 pm

Thats just silly. If your going to make a bomb that can manipulate emotions like that, then why not make one that causes crippling depression? Enemies are not so dangerous when they give up the will to live. How about a bipolar bomb, where their own soldiers might flip out and kill each other for no reason? Paranoia bomb? Weed bomb? Elvis bomb? The possibilities are endless.

Besides, even if you can pack that sort of arousal into a weapon, whats to say that they dont just kill you and do it later? Or perhaps they start shooting us one handed with pistols? How will american morale be when our clearly insecure penis waving soldiers are killed by homosexuals?

Posted: Oct 04 2007 11:17 pm

We're giving this joke way more thought than it deserves.

Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

If the weapon is used on the French, does it have no effect then?

Posted: Oct 05 2007 03:32 am

Cattivo wrote:

If the weapon is used on the French, does it have no effect then?

No, but they'll surrender anyway.

Posted: Oct 05 2007 10:27 am

I know this might be a silly question, but these are fake right? Please, please tell me they are fake.

Posted: Oct 05 2007 12:17 pm

Nope, these are real. Here is the original story on the gay bomb deal:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4174519.stm

Joined: Nov 03 2006 Posts: 763

I'm prertty sure all it's going to do, is have our troops get raped over and over, when and if they ever get captured after a battle.

And I wonder how long they last.. and how much they've been tested (i doubt they coudl test it in America, maybe they could) on people.