[guide.chat] The rocket science
- From: "Harold Kitching" <harold.kitching01@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Forum chats guade forum" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Sarah Mellor" <sarah_mellor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Si Watson" <mrsvilla@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:25:28 -0000
British scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead
Chickens at the windshields of airliners and military jets all travelling at
maximum velocity.
The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne
fowl to test the strength of the windshields.
American 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 American 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 Yanks sent Rolls Royce the disastrous results of the
experiment, along with the designs 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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