Guest guest Posted July 10, 1999 Report Share Posted July 10, 1999 " Ron Hooft " <hooft Another Joke of the day? AP Wire (New York)-- Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist In 1994 scientists at NASA 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 aerospace windshields. British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshield of their new high-speed trains. Arrangements were made to borrow the gun. But when the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurtled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatter proof 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, the British sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, and begged the U.S. scientists for suggestions. NASA e-mailed a response of just one sentence: " Thaw the chicken. " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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