Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!


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old, but still funny as hell...

Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (true story):

Scientists at Roll Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead

chickens at the windshields of airliners and military jets , 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. American 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 American engineers. When the gun was fired, the engineers

watched in shock 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. The

horrified engineers sent Rolls Royce the film of the

disastrous

results of the experiment, along with the designs of the

windshield and begged the British scientists for

suggestions.

You're going to love this......

Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo:defrost them

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i really have nothing to add, except for the fact that i remember watching jeopardy about 8 years ago, and one of the players was the guy who shot the gun with birds in it at airplane windshields. :)

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