[2278] in Humor
HUMOR CLASSIC: Chicken Launcher
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sharalee M. Field)
Wed Apr 22 10:26:37 1998
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:16:23 -0400
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:33:10 -0400
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From: Celia Kent <<celia_kent@harvard.edu>
Subject: Chicken Launcher
apologies if you've seen this before. . .
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 hurtled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, 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 U.S. scientists for suggestions.
NASA's response was just one sentence, "Thaw the chicken."
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