BOSTON, MA -- The U.S. Air Force won the Ig Nobel Peace
Prize this year for its proposal to develop a "gay bomb" (see
story) -- a chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers want to
make love to each other rather than fighting their opponent.
The Ig Nobel prize is a spoof of the Nobel Prizes awarded for quirky,
funny and sometimes legitimate scientific achievements.
Other
prices were awarded for a study on how hamsters recover from jet lag more
quickly after being given Viagra and working out the mathematics of
wrinkle patterns on bedsheets.
The annual award is handed out by the Annals of Improbable Research
magazine during a typically rowdy ceremony at Harvard University.
Most winners are more than happy to accept their awards in person but
nobody from the Air Force would agree to show up to claim their prize.
Other
prices were awarded for a study on how hamsters recover from jet lag more
quickly after being given Viagra and working out the mathematics of
wrinkle patterns on bedsheets.
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