AH! Always a good source of amusements for insominacs-the Ig Nobel Prizes handed out at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre by the Annals of Improbable Research. Ig Nobel Prize honours stupid-sounding or seemingly unimportant scientific research. Some of 2007 winning research(in no particular order):
-discovering that hamsters recover from jet lag more quickly when given Viagra
-devising a way to extract vanilla flavour from cow manure
-gay bomb devised by Air Force's Wright Laboratories in Dayton, Ohio that would release a strong aphrodisac that would cause an irresistible urge to engage in homosexual behavior regardless of the dirty fox hole, battles, or smelly soldiers around them.
A complete list can be found at:

http://www.ignobel.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners

Quoted from Chiquita

gay bomb devised by Air Force's Wright Laboratories in Dayton, Ohio that would release a strong aphrodisac that would cause an irresistible urge to engage in homosexual behavior regardless of the dirty fox hole....

That line alone made me laugh hysterically at work!  It brought a new meaning to fox hole...

I don't know why the gay bomb is such a bad idea.  Hmmm...  here we have an attacking army, or maybe even a riot in the streets.  We can kill them all, or force them to be preoccupied until we can restrain them.  I think it's rather clever.  At least, it'd make for good pr0n (depending on the crowd... and the target audience)

The problem is that this is blatant chemical warfare, something slightly frowned upon by the UN and most nations.

The article even stated that they don't know what kind of chemical would do this.. nice to know that the american military funds science fiction writers who never got laid in their life and submit their wildest dreams as national defence concerns.

Quoted from Diddly

I don't know why the gay bomb is such a bad idea.  Hmmm...  here we have an attacking army, or maybe even a riot in the streets.  We can kill them all, or force them to be preoccupied until we can restrain them.  I think it's rather clever.  At least, it'd make for good pr0n (depending on the crowd... and the target audience)

So you think that using a chemical weapon to force individuals into an action they would not normally take is a good idea? A form of abuse? Long term mental damage?

what is a "good pron"?

I'm surprise no one discussing why someone would think to give Viagra for jet lag?

Well, if you want to boil it down to it's simplest form, it's a question of would you rather be insanely horny for the person next to you, or dead?

who's to say the insanely horny person doesn't snuff you?

They're insanely horny too?

I think people are missing the obvoius here... What happens when you drop a gay-bomb on jetlagged troops who have taken viagra to recover?  It could be another Hundred Years' war!

Or could be the world's longest orgy.