Rocket Launchers and LSD dont mix
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Oh boy, this just had a bunch of us at work crying real tears of mirth:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6849815796738861933
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6849815796738861933
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rocket launchers + LSD = good idea
the logic is simple... I mean it's math... come on guys...
No idea just what the point of that specific research project was, but hell man I can just imagine that day.
Ferg: you do realize that was the Brittish government right?
ah god bless our government, that's something only they are capable of doing
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nice international spirit, if miss guided.
Until 1966, LSD and psilocybin were provided by Sandoz Laboratories free of charge to interested scientists. The use of these compounds by psychiatrists to gain a better subjective understanding of the schizophrenic experience was an accepted practice. Many clinical trials were conducted on the potential use of LSD in psychedelic psychotherapy, generally with very positive results.
Cold War era intelligence services were keenly interested in the possibilities of using LSD for interrogation and mind control, and also for large-scale social engineering. The CIA conducted extensive research on LSD, which was mostly destroyed. [2] Project MKULTRA (also known as MK-ULTRA) was the code name for a CIA mind-control research program begun in the 1950s and continued until the late 1960s. There is much published evidence that the project involved not only the use of drugs to manipulate persons, but also the use of electronic signals to alter brain functioning; for details, see the MKULTRA article proper.
The British government also indulged in LSD testing; in 1953 and 1954, scientists working for MI6 dosed servicemen in an effort to find a "truth drug". (In all probability, MI6 was motivated by rumors that the Soviet Union had developed brainwashing drugs.) The test subjects were not informed that they were being given LSD, and had in fact been told that they were participating in a medical project to find a cure for the common cold. One subject, aged 19 at the time, reported seeing "walls melting, cracks appearing in people's faces eyes would run down cheeks, Salvador Dalí-type faces a flower would turn into a slug". After keeping the trials secret for many years, MI6 agreed in 2006 to pay the former test subjects financial compensation. Like the CIA, MI6 decided that LSD was not a practical drug for brainwashing purposes. [3]
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LSD-25#Origins_and_history
There are people who believe that the CIA created the LSD explosion in the 60's as a social engineering project. They funded much of the research, often unbeknownst to the people doing the research, on it during the 50's, including Leary's experiments. From the Wiki article on LSD, "There have also been persistent claims of connections between the CIA and members of the so-called "Brotherhood of Eternal Love", most focussing on the mysterious figure of Ronald Stark, a reputed criminal who was alleged to have links to both the CIA and to paramilitary organisations including the PLO, as well as allegedly overseeing one of the world's largest LSD manufacturing and distribution rings, which operated in Italy, France and Belgium."
The "Brotherhood of Eternal Love" is responsible for originally distributing the "orange sunshine" acid. Supposedly in '69 Ronald Stark showed up at the Brotherhood's ranch with a kilo of pure LSD, enough to make millions of hits.
...and this is just fun. The website suggests staring at it for 10 seconds, but 15 to 20 will intesify the effect. Text seems to produce the most obvious distortions.