Republicans! Do not be jealous! The Air Force won a major peace prize last week!

[struggle4progress]

Really!

The Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton won the 2007 Ig Nobel Peace Prize "for instigating research & development on a chemical weapon -- the so-called 'gay bomb' -- that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other"

http://www.improb.com/ig/ig-pastwinners.html#ig2007

[niyad]

1. this is really from the Onion, right? PLEAAASE tell me this is from the Onion!

[struggle4progress]

2. 'Gay bomb' scoops Ig Nobel award (BBC)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3017134
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7026150.stm

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. Nope

http://www.sunshine-project.org/incapacitants/jnlwdpdf/wpafbchem.pdf

[struggle4progress]

5. Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb' (June 2007)

Jun 8, 2007 9:03 pm US/Pacific
Hank Plante
Reporting

(CBS 5) BERKELEY

A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.

Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and then subsequently rejected, building the so-called "Gay Bomb." ...

stories/local_story_159222541.html

[WillyT]

3. Here's The Actual Paper (.pdf file)

Link: http://www.sunshine-project.org/incapacitants/jnlwdpdf/wpafbchem.pdf

:wtf:

[struggle4progress]

8. Thanx!

[Cameron27]

6. Here's the award

:+

[struggle4progress]

7. Now that is a REALLY tasteful trophy!