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[harleyteam]

Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!!  
Scientiest 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 US scientists  for suggestions.

You're gonna love  this . . .

NASA responded  with a one-line memo --

"Defrost the  chicken."

[GregKhougaz]

Reminds me of the story about NASA spending two years and $1/2 million to develop a pen for the Mercury program that would write in the weightless, pressure less conditions of space.   When they finnlly perfected the instrument, they were very proud of the accomplishment. 

The Soviets, faced with the same issue pondered what to do on their limited budget.....

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So, they used a PENCIL ! !

(Don't know if it's true). 

[CBW]

 

[Gone Fishin']

How can you put up this crap and write "True Story"? It is for years all over the web, and of course it is NOT TRUE.

Here is a different version:

Scientists at Air New Zealand built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners travelling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.
Australian engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new Qantas A380 aircraft. Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the Australian 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 Aussies sent Air New Zealand the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the Kiwi scientists for suggestions.......
Air New Zealand responded with a one-line memo: "Defrost the chicken......"

Ride safely,
Louis

[harleyteam]

it was put in the humor section for a reason.

if you believe everything you read in this section,  you've got bigger problems then I could ever imagine.

[Gone Fishin']

Obviously there are different kinds of humor. I prefer it with a grain of intelligence.

[harleyteam]

so,  the shark one shows a grain of intelligence   now that comment deserved to be in the humor section