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[Phil Levin W2GE]

I thought you guys might get a kick out of this...

True Story: 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 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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