A Rocket Scientist
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:45 pm
True Story
>>
>> 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 smither eens, 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 US scientists for suggestions.
>>
>> You're going to love this...
>> NASA responded with a one-line memo -- "Defrost the chicken." (True
>> Story)
>>
>> 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 smither eens, 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 US scientists for suggestions.
>>
>> You're going to love this...
>> NASA responded with a one-line memo -- "Defrost the chicken." (True
>> Story)