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Sometimes it DOES take a rocket Scientist
Allegedly True
Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens
at the windshields of airliners and military jets 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 and so prevent
catastrophic accidents.
American engineers heard about the gun and wanted to use it to test the
strength of the windshields on their new high speed trains. Arrangements
were made and a gun was sent to the American engineers. When the gun was
fired, the engineers watched horrified as the chicken hurled out of the
barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens,
blasted through the control console, snapped the engineers back-rest in two
and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow from a
bow.
The shocked Yanks sent Rolls Royce the disastrous results of the
experiment, along with the design of the windshield and begged the British
scientists for suggestions.
Rolls Royce responded with a one line memo: "Defrost the chicken"
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