<a href="http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010704/80/bxdin.html">Stench warfare and stink bombs-U.S. secret weapon?</a> LONDON (Reuters) - The Pentagon is developing a stink bomb to drive away enemy troops or hostile crowds, the magazine New Scientist has said. Stench warfare could form a key part of the U.S. non-lethal weapons programme and provide police with an extra means of dealing with the kind of rioting that has disrupted recent summits of world leaders. "It would give us an offensive capability against large and unruly groups of people, if they are unwilling to move or are openly hostile," New Scientist quoted a Pentagon spokesman as saying. "And it would minimise the risk to our people and to the antagonists." Researchers said there was a close link between nasty smells and fear, as a bad smell can activate tissue deep within the brain. The "perfect" stink for defence purposes would be one that triggered an emotional response in humans. The problem is that odours can provoke varying reactions in different people because of social and cultural conditioning. Pam Dalton, a cognitive psychologist at the Monell Chemical Senses Centre in Philadelphia who is leading the search for a better stink bomb, has tested smells on volunteers of different ethnic origins to try to find a universal formula. She has found two odours that appear to transcend culture, and a mixture of the two could form the basis of a weapon. ------------------ CC.net's most courteous driver Oh yeah, and I'm looking for a job right now, so hire me please
And I would put money on the fact that at least one of them is flatulence...kind of hard to develop a good emotional response to that. ------------------ I would rather have Mo Taylor and his love of the Rockets than Webber and his love of our money. Rocket's need power forward. Mo near now. Go near Mo.
bahhhhhh... just use all that left over WWI and Gulf War mustard gas... that'll show all those protesters!! Imagine wanting to speak your mind, bah... we'll squash them like a stinky fart!(?) {insert evil laugh}
