2329 - Weapons of weird destruction

Well most of them are weird. The title of the article is The Worlds' Spookiest Weapons. There are 20 of them. The article starts of with the atom bomb. Not spooky or weird. But then it gets into some weapons like the following....

The Puke Flashlight

No, it's not a rave toy gone horribly wrong, it's another spooky tool making its way into the hands of law enforcement and the military. Designed as one of a growing body of non-lethal incapacitating devices, the flashlight uses ultra bright, rapidly pulsating LEDs to first temporarily blind and then induce nausea and sometimes vomiting. The pulses quickly change color and duration, which can cause psychophysical effects in many people (although to what extent varies significantly). The same effect is sometimes inadvertently seen by helicopter pilots when sunlight rapidly flashes through their rotors, disorienting them in mid-flight. The flashlight has obvious downsides—the victim must be in front of the light and must not think quickly enough to look away—but is a promising tool for non-violent enforcement.


Speaking of puke....

A Military-Grade Stink Bomb

The Air Force lab responsible for the gay bomb and the fart bomb have nothing on what the DOD has in the works today. Researchers at the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia are working with the Department of Defense to develop the baddest smell you ever smelled. We're talking a mixture of vomit, excrement, B.O., burnt hair, and rotting flesh and garbage. Just thinking about it is making me queasy. The important thing to note is the need for a combination of many sources of stench—just vomit or just burnt hair won't do it because our brains can too readily adjust to accommodating one stink. But throw a half dozen at us and we're at the mercy of our gag reflex. Ultimately, the potent cocktail could be used in a "bomb" of sorts for crowd dispersal. It's also being considered for helping soldiers become accustomed to unpleasant environments.

So if you want to see all 20 of them, go to the link above.