TopBand: Re: FW: True Story

[K4SB]

Sorry for this post fellows, but it's just too good.

> True story.
> Sometimes it DOES take a rocket scientist.....
> Scientists at NASA have 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 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. But when the gun was fired, the engineers stood
> shocked as       the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the
> shatterproof  windshield and 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, Britons sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment,
> along with the designs of the windshield, and  begged  the US scientists
> for suggestions.

> NASA's response was just one sentence:  "Thaw the chicken."




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