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2007 Ig Nobel Awards Announced
prostoalex writes "The annual Ig Noble awards by Annals of Improbable Research were announced tonight. The winners included the scientists who discovered that impotence drugs help with jet lag recovery, "a Dutch researcher who conducted a census of all the creepy-crawlies that share our beds, Spanish scientists who found that rats sometimes could not distinguish between Japanese spoken backwards and Dutch spoken backwards, an Australian woman who documented the indexing problems caused by the word "the", a Japanese researcher who extracted vanilla flavoring from cow dung, and a Taiwanese man who patented a Batman-like device that drops a net over bank robbers," MSNBC says."
The Gay Bomb which induces enemies to engage in homosexual behavior.
I wonder how long before it becomes a political weapon of mass discreditation?
a Taiwanese man who patented a Batman-like device that drops a net over bank robbers
Yes, well, he only developed it because he was interested in the net profit.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.