# Now I Know: The Gay Bomb **URL:** \ **Category:** Lounge\ **Created:** [April 15, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/now-i-know-the-gay-bomb/49891 "2011-04-15T12:17:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![evolver](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/evolver/32/1896_2.png) [@evolver](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/evolver)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 12:17pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/now-i-know-the-gay-bomb/49891/1 "2011-04-15T12:17:22Z")
I subscribe to an interesting mailing list called “Now I Know” ([http://dlewis.net/nik/](http://dlewis.net/nik/)), which sends you a new fact every day. The one this morning was funny and related to [pheromones](https://a314.com/shop/), so I thought you might be interested in it. **The Gay Bomb** The United States military leaves no stone unturned when looking for technological solutions to winning in the theater of war. The Manhattan Project in World War II is one of the more well-known examples, but American military history is rife with others. One esoteric one: during the American Revolution, inventor David Bushell came up with an idea to fight against the British blockade of American ports – a device we now call the submarine. But some of these ideas were more lunacy than science. A top example? The gay bomb. In 1994, the Wright Laboratory – part of the U.S. Air Force – investigated the possibility of using pheromones as a weapon against enemy troops. Specifically, the proposal requested a six year, $7.5 million grant to see if enemy combatants, doused en masse with female pheromones, would cause a biological reaction among the troops. Ideally, the three-page proposal suggested, the affected soldiers would find their brothers-in-arms “sexually irresistible” (per the BBC) and, per Fox News, noted that “[o]ne distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior.” The weapon colloquially took on the “gay bomb” moniker shortly after being discovered by a military spending watchdog group via a Freedom of Information Act request. Wright Laboratory (now defunct, but not for the above) never received the funding for further study. ---
**Author:** ![TwistedOstrich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/twistedostrich/32/627_2.png) [@TwistedOstrich](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/TwistedOstrich)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2011, 5:28pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/now-i-know-the-gay-bomb/49891/2 "2011-04-15T17:28:46Z")
Future wars will be fought by robots… so this idea wouldn’t work ---
**Author:** ![Taggle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/taggle/32/1793_2.png) [@Taggle](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Taggle)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2011, 12:24pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/now-i-know-the-gay-bomb/49891/3 "2011-04-16T12:24:27Z")
Even though “The robo-gay bomb” sounds SO much cooler! ---
**Author:** ![TwistedOstrich](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/twistedostrich/32/627_2.png) [@TwistedOstrich](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/TwistedOstrich)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 8:10pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/now-i-know-the-gay-bomb/49891/4 "2011-04-18T20:10:57Z")
> [@Taggle](#): > > Even though “The robo-gay bomb” sounds SO much cooler! \*\*Two years later wars are being fought by robots with “robo-gay bomb” unleashing gay code making the robots have robo on robo sex… when the ultimate countermeasure is released, the fem bot… ---
**Author:** ![SteveO](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@SteveO](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/SteveO)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2011, 9:34pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/now-i-know-the-gay-bomb/49891/5 "2011-04-18T21:34:09Z")
I just watched about an hour of Terminator 4 or whatever its called while on the treadmill today. Wouldn’t that be gay robo sex? I thought I posted a link to a DARPA project on this in the studies and abstracts section. I’ll have to see if I can’t locate it for shits and giggles 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Taggle](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/pheromonetalk.com/taggle/32/1793_2.png) [@Taggle](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/Taggle)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 5:27am UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/now-i-know-the-gay-bomb/49891/6 "2011-04-19T05:27:01Z")
> [@TwistedOstrich](#): > > \*\*Two years later wars are being fought by robots with “robo-gay bomb” unleashing gay code making the robots have robo on robo sex… when the ultimate countermeasure is released, the fem bot… I’ve seen movies with way worse plots…