Re: NASA Builds New Secret Weapon, Australian Tests Fail

["WhaleOilBeefHooked" <daproc@sd5.mailbank.com>]

This is SO old, it is not funny!

DaveP

carrington wrote in message <37be0932.64623402@news.bigpond.com>...
>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
>