Sometimes it DOES take a rocket scientist

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Posted by David Kelso, Coach on team #131, C.H.A.O.S.-, from Central High School and OSRAM SYLVANIA/ Fleet Bank.

Posted on 5/17/99 2:22 PM MST


In Reply to: Sometimes it DOES take a rocket scientist posted by Frank Toussaint on 5/17/99 11:27 AM MST:



This section of the site is Rumor, not Humor....you just made
my afternoon. Thanks


: Can someone at NASA tell me if there is any truth to this story:

:
: 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 was 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
: U.S. scientists for suggestions.

: NASA responded with a one-line memo:
: 'Thaw the chicken.'