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Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist

  • 18-04-2000 12:06pm
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    kayos
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    Scientists at NASA have developed a gun built specifically to
    launch 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.
    But when the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the
    chicken hurtled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof
    shield, smashed it to smithereens, crashed through the control
    console, snapped the engineer's backrest in two and embedded itself
    in the back wall of the cabin. Horrified Britons sent NASA the
    disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of
    the windshield, and begged the US scientists for suggestions.
    NASA's response was just one sentence, "Thaw the chicken."

    Kayos


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