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Pentagon Working on "Human Fear" Weapons

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the smells-like-... dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Animals use pheromones to attract each other for sex, and warn each other of danger. Now, Wired reports, military researchers are working to harness the 'human fear' pheromone to create a scent of terror. The pheromone could lead to smell-based terrorist sensors, and new weapons that rely on 'contagious' stress."

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  1. What could happen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I fear it might not work.

    1. Re:What could happen by RDW · · Score: 4, Funny

      'I am not a biologist, so I'll just ask; "Is it reasonable to assume that there even is a fear scent in humans?". Is there any evidence of it's exsitence in closely related species?'

      Well, with that kind of defeatist reality-based reasoning, how can we ever hope to complete the development of the Gay Bomb?:

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

  2. women by EZReady · · Score: 5, Funny

    female pheromones would work for most slashdotters

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    1. Re:women by HTH+NE1 · · Score: 4, Funny

      You can get 2-siders for nearly a dime a dozen.

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  3. Irony by traindirector · · Score: 5, Funny

    You'd almost think that after declaring a war on terror an organization wouldn't use terror against enemies in the most literal way possible...

  4. Amongst our weapons by gardyloo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and pheromones...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise....

  5. Oblig. Simpsons by TheSpoom · · Score: 4, Funny

    Marge: What happened? You didn't do anything!

    Dr. Hibbert: Oh, didn't I? [laughs] Nothing dissolves glue better than human sweat. I knew Bart would panic and start perspiring at the sight of this button applicator!

    Bart: Couldn't you have just turned the heat up a little?

    Dr. Hibbert: [sinister] Oh, heavens no! It had to be terror sweat!

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  6. Re:Bio warfare? by whopub · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does that not count as biological warfare? Who cares! The whole plan stinks.