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Biotech / Medical : VD's Model Portfolio & Discussion Thread

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To: Cytokine1 who wrote (4302)3/10/1998 10:28:00 AM
From: Rocketman  Read Replies (1) of 9719
 
Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist

Scientists at NASA have developed a gun built specifically to launch dead
chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space
shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity.

The idea is 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. But when the gun was fired, the engineers stood
shocked as the chicken hurtled out of the barrel, crashed into the
shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, crashed through the control
console, snapped the engineer's backrest in two and embedded itself in the
back wall of the cabin.

Horrified Britons sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along
with the designs of the windshield, and begged the U.S. scientists for
suggestions.

NASA's response was just one sentence, "Thaw the chicken."

Rman
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