| It Doesn't Take A Rocket Scientist |
| We've all heard the old saying, It doesn't take a rocket scientist to... |
| Well, maybe it does sometimes! |
| Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets |
| The idea was to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the |
| When the gun was fired, the British engineers stood speechless as the chicken hurtled out of the barrel, |
| The horrified Brits sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the |
| NASA responded with this one-line memo: "Thaw the chickens". |
| and the space shuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. |
| high-speed trains. Arrangements were made, and the gun was sent to the British engineers. |
| windshields. British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windshields of their new |
| shot from a bow. |
| crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, |
| snapped the engineer's backrest in two, and embedded itself into the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow |
| windshield, and begged the U.S. scientists for some suggestions. |
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