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The World's Spookiest Weapons
DesScorp writes "Popular Science has a piece on some outrageous ideas for weapons; some came to fruition, and others didn't. And while some of the weapons (atom bombs, chemical weapons, bats with bombs strapped to them that seek out homes and buildings at night) are truly frightening, some of them are also kind of silly, such as the Gay Bomb, and the Frisbee bomb that was labeled the 'Modular Disc-Wing Urban Cruise Munition.'"
They missed a few. Nazi sound and compressed air weapons, the first "shoot around a corner" gun. The "Amerika Bomber" concept that Heinlein liked so much that he based a lot of his future history series around the concept.
The american Gyrojet rocket pistol.
Why, yes, I AM a Pagan Libertarian.
Mentioned here, along with the cat bomb, anti-tank dog and exploding rat (no, really):
http://www.oddee.com/item_91684.aspx
Fourth paragraph from the bottom, $18 billion annually (for everyone on the planet) on cosmetics:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/01/0111_040112_consumerism_2.html
Iraq, $12 billion a month:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23551693/
Hopefully you are just misinformed.
Nerd rage is the funniest rage.
Whenever I used a frisby I tend to think how it would be cool to put knives around the edge and let them flick out from the centrifugal force. I am not an especially violent person (though I do enjoy martial arts movies and occasionally martial arts as well), I just think it would be an interesting weapon :p Frisbees are great fun on their own, and very intuitive to curve and direct once you have your throwing techniques down properly, so they'd probably make pretty good delivery systems for explosive and such in certain situations. You want to be careful about the wind if you're going to launch at a steep angle though, otherwise you may find that your frisbee is acting more like a boomerang :)
which is totally what she said