Most Likely Not True But Is A Funny Read

[caelkhnter]

Don't try this at home!


Subject: Rocket Science


Scientists 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. NASA responded with a one-line memo

"Defrost the chicken."

 

[kilbuc]

Think it was sent to French engineers.

from the "Heartland of Wyoming"

 

[kilowatt]

ACTUALLY IT IS TRUE. I saw this on some program on TV about a month or so ago, pretty funny and stupid stunts that people were doing.

Brian

 

[WyoAces]

there is a show on the discovery channel(i think). myth busters is the name. they told that same story. They ended up building a gun to shoot chickens. the end results said that it didn't matter whether the chicken was frozen or not. Do to them having the same mass the damage results were the same.