SC - NASA Testing (fwd)

[Kay Loidolt]

DogtorMary at aol.com wrote:
 
 Subject: Fwd: Fw: NASA Testing (fwd)

     Sometimes it DOES take a rocket scientist ... scientists at NASA
 built a gun specifically to launch 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 hurtled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof 
windshield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control 
console, snapped the pilots backrest 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 US scientists for suggestions.
         NASA responded with a one-line memo:
                                        "THAW THE CHICKEN"
 Fran Hoffman * BCnEwe at mindspring.com
 Glenn Haven Farm, Durham, NC
 "Violence is only for those who have run out of good ideas"