Sorry for this post fellows, but it's just too good.
> True story.
> 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 hurled 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, Britons sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment,
> along with the designs of the windshield, and begged the US scientists
> for suggestions.
> NASA's response was just one sentence: "Thaw the chicken."
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