Bird Brain
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 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 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 U.S. scientists for suggestions.
NASA responded with a one-line memo --
"Defrost the chicken!"
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