Pentagon Working on "Human Fear" Weapons 310
An anonymous reader writes "Animals use pheromones to attract each other for sex, and warn each other of danger. Now, Wired reports, military researchers are working to harness the 'human fear' pheromone to create a scent of terror. The pheromone could lead to smell-based terrorist sensors, and new weapons that rely on 'contagious' stress."
What could happen (Score:5, Funny)
Big fans eh? (Score:3, Funny)
women (Score:5, Funny)
Irony (Score:5, Funny)
You'd almost think that after declaring a war on terror an organization wouldn't use terror against enemies in the most literal way possible...
Amongst our weapons (Score:5, Funny)
The tinfoil hat was comfortable (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The tinfoil hat was comfortable (Score:4, Funny)
Oblig. Simpsons (Score:5, Funny)
Dr. Hibbert: Oh, didn't I? [laughs] Nothing dissolves glue better than human sweat. I knew Bart would panic and start perspiring at the sight of this button applicator!
Bart: Couldn't you have just turned the heat up a little?
Dr. Hibbert: [sinister] Oh, heavens no! It had to be terror sweat!
Re:Bio warfare? (Score:4, Funny)
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Well, with that kind of defeatist reality-based reasoning, how can we ever hope to complete the development of the Gay Bomb?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb [wikipedia.org]
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Admit it! Even the thought of this incites fear and disgust!
Re:That quote about fear (Score:4, Funny)
and spiders
how about a Gay Bomb? (Score:3, Funny)
They already thought of that. [wikipedia.org]
What a shiny brave new world we live in!
-S
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So yeah, I realized I had made a mistake just as I was clicking Submit. Why does that happen? You can realize you screwed up the instant that you do it...
Re:women (Score:5, Funny)
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Terrorist sensors? (Score:3, Funny)
I wonder if that measurement of the flow rate of ketchup we paid for ever yielded any results...