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 was to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields. European 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 windshield and 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, the Europeans sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, begging the US scientists for suggestions.
NASA's response was just one sentence: “Thaw the chicken.”
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