The mother of all stink bombs
Edwinasia
04-10-2007, 12:35
The US Army created, some time ago, an enormous stink bomb.
Why aren't they using this in Iraq?
http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/2001/C/200113657.html
Rambhutan
04-10-2007, 12:40
I believe they are also investigating giant whoopie cushion based weapons technology.
Why aren't they using this in Iraq?
http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/2001/C/200113657.html
It was felt that the whole Iraq thing had smelled dodgy since day one anyway....
Creepy Lurker
04-10-2007, 13:33
Hah!
Make sure LG doesn't get his hands on it. Can you imagine the carnage?
Ruby City
04-10-2007, 15:11
US Government Standard Bathroom Malodor
:eek:
That owns. I thought taxpayer money was wasted on some pretty shitty things over here but I doubt we have anything that can compete with developing and producing "US Government Standard Bathroom Malodor". Those smug Americans always have to be best at everything. Wish we had something on that level of weirdness over here.
That's absolutely brilliant!
I wonder if we could use stench to interrogate prisoners of war. Just waft some USGSBM (United States Government Standard Bathroom Malador) through the interrogation cell, and don't let them out until they talk. Or faint.
Ooh - since this is a nonlethal, non-destructive weapon, we could use it to pressure countries into doing what we want! Have spies plant stink bombs in major cities.
Lunatic Goofballs
04-10-2007, 19:28
Hah!
Make sure LG doesn't get his hands on it. Can you imagine the carnage?
Yes. :)
Troglobites
04-10-2007, 19:31
stink bombs? Really? can the troops not shower?
I can just imagine this technology world wide.
a crisis at the UN!
"ok, who dropped the bomb?"
"Not me!"
"oh man that stinks"
"it wasn't me"
"maybe a passing plane let one go?"
"what? a bomb was dropped? I didn't hear anything"
"oh it must've been a stealth bomb... silent and deadly."
"It was you, wasn't it..."
"oh hell no, don't pin it on us."
Sumamba Buwhan
04-10-2007, 21:44
Did they get their idea from a Simpson's episode?
Entropic Creation
04-10-2007, 23:02
Very old yet useful tactic.
For best results you actually use a mix of malodorants - that way you make sure everyone is affected in the worst way. Completely non-lethal as scents are incapable of doing damage (except possible problems from dry-heaving and from indirect damage like people stampeding) but very effective. Of course using one with molecules small enough to get through a charcoal filter (getting through a gas mask) is difficult, but can be done.
We've managed to encapsulate the mix to have a stable release from the second day (initial strength is a little more intense and falls off for a few hours until it gets to the target strength) for 2 full years before starting to fall off and dissipating completely in a week or two. Very effective at keeping people away from certain areas or materials (like munitions dumps). A non-toxic, environmentally friendly, and cheap deterrent perfect for deserts. If in an area with a lot of rainfall, you have to mix it into something else - a light concrete slurry actually works well, but rainfall tends to clean the air.
In fact, just such a system would have been in use in Iraq for years... if we would have handed all our notebooks over to Haliburton for free as our patriotic duty (who would then get a contract for ten times what we were asking).
What? me bitter? nah...