Few people have ever seriously considered the true military potential of the common or garden carrot. It takes an unusually vivid imagination to look upon what most people would consider to be merely a harmless vegetable, and see it as a weapon of war. Admittedly, if it was a particularly pointy specimen, you might observe that you could have someone's eye out, but other than that its offensive capabilities are not readily apparent. Nevertheless, as Garth Poke explains in this 2005 article, military leaders did fritter away extraordinary quantities of your cash in a fruitless attempt to develop a vegetable weapon...
Teaching Carrots to Fly
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