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Questioninggeller
21st June 2007, 03:32 PM
Fringe Science Yields 'Gay Bombs' and Psychic Teleportation
Pentagon Spends $78 Billion a Year on Weapons and Space Research, Some of it Whacky

ABCNews.com
By SUSAN DONALDSON JAMES
June 21, 2007

Creating armor that renders a soldier invisible. Stimulating the brain to suppress sleep for days. Arming sharks with chemical implants and cameras to work as spies.
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Just this month, the government confirmed that an Ohio Air Force laboratory had asked for $7.5 million to build a nonlethal "gay bomb," a weapon that would encourage enemies to make love, not war. The weapon would use strong aphrodisiacs to make enemy troops so sexually attracted to each other that they'd lose interest in fighting.
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Just three years ago, the military funded a specious study of psychic teleportation, according to the Federation of American Scientists. An 88-page report prepared by the Air Force Research Lab contended that moving through mind powers is "quite real and can be controlled."
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Source (http://abcnews.go.com/US/Story?id=3299379&page=1)

SmurfDefiled
21st June 2007, 03:42 PM
Wouldn't increasing eroticism make men more aggressive and not less? Aren't the "fight" and "f(rule8)" mechanisms very closely linked in the limbic brain?

Piscivore
21st June 2007, 03:46 PM
Wouldn't increasing eroticism make men more aggressive and not less? Aren't the "fight" and "f(rule8)" mechanisms very closely linked in the limbic brain?

So you're saying "300" was less about history and more about metric tonnes of repressed man-love? :)

-Fran-
21st June 2007, 03:47 PM
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=84811

Questioninggeller
21st June 2007, 03:52 PM
http://forums.randi.org/showthread.php?t=84811

I didn't see anything in there about psychic teleportation so I posted today's ABC News article.

-Fran-
21st June 2007, 04:03 PM
I didn't see anything in there about psychic teleportation so I posted today's ABC News article.

Ah, OK. Sorry, didn't know you had seen it. Just thought I'd show what others have commented on the gay bomb thing, don't mind me :)