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NCR ~ Friday Humor, May 29th... 
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Huck Finn, a truly perceptive gentleman from the Upper Midwest,
sent this one...
The Chicken Gun. Too funny not to share!
Sometimes it does take a rocket scientist! Scientists at NASA built a gun
specifically to launch standard 4 pound 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,
and a gun was sent to the British engineers.
When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken
hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed
it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the
engineer's back-rest 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:
DEFROST THE CHICKEN!
(TRUE STORY)
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