This urban legend has been around since about 1997. check out
www.snopes2.com search for nasa chicken...
-----Original Message-----
From: LaJoMor@aol.com [mailto:LaJoMor@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 9:05 PM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net; 6pack@autox.team.net
Subject: New meaning for LBCs....hmmmm
Well, I suppose there could be a different meaning of LBCs....read on....
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
space shuttles, 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 to borrow the gun. But when the gun was
fired,The engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurtled out of the
barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, 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 asked the
U.S. scientists for suggestions.
NASA's response was just one sentence: "Thaw the chicken."
LM
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