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22 Comments
1. Ian | February 4th, 2008 at 12:46 am
Maybe they were going to trick the enemy into taking? Either way, looks great fun, especially the tree climbing/bird feeding bit. Shame they never gave us LSD in the cadets.
2. Brandon | February 4th, 2008 at 6:56 am
Oh dear, I hope the rocket launcher one of the guys was carrying wasnt loaded.
3. Hayden Selvadurai | February 4th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Bloody funny stuff. Gotta love the ending, with the guy in charge “relapsing into laughter” after he lost control of his troops.
Where do you find this gold?
4. Science Etcetera Moonday,&hellip | February 4th, 2008 at 10:07 am
[...] Check out this old film of LSD being Tested on British Troops, I really hope those guns aren’t loaded (HT Science Punk): [...]
5. Santa | February 15th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Beware the man on acid with the rocket launcher.
6. Red | March 2nd, 2008 at 7:05 am
thats right, lets drug these guys up so their as high as the clouds….then give them guns….and explosives…. i dont see the fatal flaw, do you?
7. Brad | March 2nd, 2008 at 8:13 am
Note they make the point of saying it was administered through drinking water. Obviously to show the merits of contaminating the enemies water supply
8. ברצינות. מה הם&hellip | March 5th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
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9. Greg | March 5th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
These look like the troops I worked with everyday!
10. Anonymous | March 5th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
How do you know it was actually LSD? Is that just what the YouTube video said? LSD has highly unpredictable effects beyond simple euphoria. These guys are acting more like E-tards, and I know MDMA was being researched by the US Army in the 1950s. But then the one guy who got hauled off didn’t look like he was on E, not having a good time at all. Meh, who knows.
11. Taylor | March 6th, 2008 at 5:54 am
They look like they are enjoying being generally disassociated, I think euphoria in this case was a more secondary latent effect of the primary feeling and being “somewhere else”.
12. Taylor | March 6th, 2008 at 5:55 am
as well it is usually naturally more enjoyable when your are not alone, as then as a group u share the experience
13. gurnus | March 6th, 2008 at 7:16 am
“as well it is usually naturally more enjoyable when your are not alone, as then as a group u share the experience”
also, keep in mind, that they were not only a
group, but a group with a more than likely
higher than average sense of camraderie
(sp?)
being with people that you know very well and
trust makes acid a lot easier to take, so to
speak
14. Dave | March 6th, 2008 at 9:33 am
Sounds like a good ass time to me. “let me shoot the color cannon into the rainbow sun!, hey anyone wanna trade me my shirt for a grilled cheese?”
15. chris | March 6th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
They were testing it because back in the day when chemical warfare was just being introduced, they needed to know the effect on troops for non-fatal chemicals, including LSD, cannibis (marijuana) and other drugs like that. it’s simple enough to make those drugs into a vapor. if you don’t want to kill the enemy troops, just disable them, than LSD would be the way to go, huh?
16. Dave | March 7th, 2008 at 12:58 am
Chris’ comments notwithstanding, testing on troops makes a great deal of sense, from a strictly experimental point of view.
You have a broad subject pool with a pretty reliable physiological baseline, generally fit and healthy; well-trained subjects performing familiar tasks at which they are presumably competent; predisposed to adapting to unusual situations; and with well-defined baseline behavior. There is the aforementioned camaraderie, and a familiar operating environment. These factors can reduce a lot of the unpredictability of human behavior, compared to say, the same number of college students. They would presumably have been pre-screened medically, eliminating or reducing physical, mental or emotional conditions that might have a bearing on the effects of the drug in question. Just make sure the weapons aren’t loaded!
17. jaxsun | March 7th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
yeah it must be to see if giving it to the enemy would effect them, i guess it would.
18. Kaye Mara | March 8th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
UK Troops on LSD 1950′s style.
2008, just go to any nightclub in Portsmouth, Plymouth, Aldershot or any other military town on a Friday or Saturday night – and see squaddies, sailors and airmen high on Cocaine and Ecstasy – everywhere….
I speak from previous experience ;-)
ps How to beat Al-Quaeda / Taliban / Bad Guys around the world? Just get jets to spray them from above with Acid soaked water…. wait 60 mins….. send in Prince Harry and Army pals dressed as the Teletubbies!
Instant Surrender! No Deaths, “collateral damage” etc and all infrastructure etc intact!
19. MC | March 15th, 2008 at 6:36 am
I give out a weekly award for the strangest thing I’ve seen on a blog, and this week, SciencePunk has won the Homer Simpson Transmundanity Award for this particular post.
Congratulations Frank. You can read the writeup here.
20. ryansomma.com » Blo&hellip | March 30th, 2008 at 4:27 am
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21. LOGAN | March 11th, 2009 at 10:43 am
YO immense vid guys, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <3
cheers JACK LOGAN
22. Palash Davé | March 23rd, 2009 at 1:30 pm
Is this real or a rather good fake, though? A [very] cursory interweb search reveals nothing conclusive.
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