NASA Builds New Secret Weapon, Australian Tests Fail

[consultancy@spamblock.bigpond.com (carrington)]

NASA Builds New Secret Weapon, Australian Tests Fail

Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at
the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle, all
travelling at maximum velocity.  The idea was to simulate the frequent
incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the
windshields.

ACT politicians heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the
windshields of one of the proposed new high-speed trains.
Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to Canberra.

When the gun was fired, politicians stood shocked as the chicken
hurtled out  of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield,
smashed it to pieces, blasted through the control console, snapped the
drivers backrest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the
cabin, like an arrow shot from a bow.

The horrified politicians 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