NASA
Engineers at NASA have developed a gun to launch dead chickens. It shoots the chickens at windshields of airline jets, military jets and the space shuttle at their maximum traveling velocity.
The purpose is to simulate collisions with airborne fowl and, therefore determine if the windshields are strong enough.
Upon hearing of the gun, British engineers were eager to test it out on the windshield of their new high-speed trains. However, upon firing the gun, the engineers watched in shock as the chicken shattered the windshield, smashed through the control console, snapped the engineer's backrest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin.
Horrified, the British engineers sent NASA the results of the experiment along with the designs of the windshield and asked for any suggestions.
The NASA engineers sent back a one-sentence response:
"Thaw the chicken."
The purpose is to simulate collisions with airborne fowl and, therefore determine if the windshields are strong enough.
Upon hearing of the gun, British engineers were eager to test it out on the windshield of their new high-speed trains. However, upon firing the gun, the engineers watched in shock as the chicken shattered the windshield, smashed through the control console, snapped the engineer's backrest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin.
Horrified, the British engineers sent NASA the results of the experiment along with the designs of the windshield and asked for any suggestions.
The NASA engineers sent back a one-sentence response:
"Thaw the chicken."
posted by khimsiu @ 2:36 AM
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