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The Holy Empire of PowerDude, which specializes in genetically modifying/physically altering natures wonderful plants/animals for use in war has recently developed BatBombs, genetically altered bats with an adrenaline gland modified to produce nitroglycerin. When released over an area in which there are many caves, the BatBombs will seek out dark places, and if humans interfere, the bats will produce nitroglycerin in astonishing amounts and explode.
Note: There is a 90% failure rate, and explosions may cause chain reactions. Buy only males for a single generation of explosions, or males and females for generations to come (assuming some of the bats remain undisturbed).
$30.00 Male BatBomb
$50.00 Female BatBomb

Your a crule sick nation bats explodeing what kind of nonsence is that !?
that will only be good fo killing turist exploring caves. you sicken me!

I assume the breeding rate of those bats is *unusually very low*.

Wow, you just took a project that failed horrible during World War II and are trying to revive it? You know that I actually work with a guy that once helped work on the original bat bomb project? Do you want me to get him to lecture you?

I think its diuscusting to use explodeng bat and besides if it has a 90 % faluier rate its not a varry good bomb is it ?

Bat bombs don't work for many reasons.




1) You cannot control where the bats will go, in World War II the bats escaped and nearly burned down the Army base where the research was being developed in.

2) Nitrogycerin is too unstable, it is quite literally physically impossible for you to genetically create a gland to do that, especially in a bat (which by the way is the closest non-primate relative to the human).

3) Even if the bat does go where you want it to go, there is no guarantee it will explode or, if it does, that it will damage anything.

4) You can't air drop the bats, they will freeze or die of shock.

Dumb as the Soviet scheme to train dogs (strapped with a bomb) to sit under German tanks. Of course, the dogs also sat under Soviet tanks as well which cause a *few* problems.

Who comes up with these idiotic ideas ? Bat bomb ohh please :roll:

The United States Army, 1942. That's who.

Well It must have look good on paper then but in reallty it dint work varry well did it . ?

Burned down the research facility. Do a Google image search for "bat bomb" and you will see the first image that comes up :)

Lol well at least the army leard from thare mistakes ...