Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!Scientists at the Canadian Research Facility built a gun specifically tolaunch dead chickens at the windshields of airlines and military jets, alltraveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of thewindshields. NASA engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on thewindshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made, and agun was sent to the NASA engineers. When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurledout of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it tosmithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer'sbackrest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like anarrow shot from a bow. The horrified Americans sent the Canadian Research Facility the disastrousresults of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield andbegged the Canadian scientists for suggestions.(scroll down) The Canadian Research Facility responded with a one-line memo:"Defrost the chicken."
Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!
Scientists at the Canadian Research Facility built a gun specifically to
launch dead chickens at the windshields of airlines and military jets, 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.
NASA 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 NASA 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
backrest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an
arrow shot from a bow.
The horrified Americans sent the Canadian Research Facility the disastrous
results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and
begged the Canadian scientists for suggestions.(scroll down)
The Canadian Research Facility responded with a one-line memo:
"Defrost the chicken."
didn't see that coming . lol .