Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist:
Scientists at NASA built
a gun 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, and a gun was sent to the British
engineers.
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, blasted through the control console, snapped the
engineer's backrest 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.
NASA responded with a
one-line memo:
"Thaw the chicken."
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