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Scientists at NASA built a gun
specifically to launch standard 4 pound dead chickens at the windshields of
airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum
velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with
airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.
British
engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of
their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the British engineers.
When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled out of
the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens,
blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's back-rest in two,
and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow shot from a
bow.
The
horrified Brits sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with
the designs of the windshield and begged the U.S. scientists for
suggestions.
NASA
responded with a one-line memo, "Defrost the chicken."
(True story)
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