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General Category => The Coffee Shop => Topic started by: GrayBeard on February 22, 2012, 07:26:27 pm
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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 U.S. scientists for suggestions.
NASA responded with a one-line memo, "Defrost the chicken."
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LOL. That's funny!
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Sounds like an episode of Myth Busters!
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Maybe they should re do the test - with our PM in the engineers seat !!!!!
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Hi Keefie that sounds like a great idea. All of them, one at a time, frozen or not!!.
Rob Roy.
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Take NO CHANCES Rob, all frozen.
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Now that's too darn funny. LMBO :D :D :D
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Now that was a "fowl" story Russ!
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Heard this one a few years ago
Nasa was bragging about developing a ink pen that would work in outer space
the total developing cost was 25,000 dollars.
Russia's reply was: we use pencils
Tink
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LOL that was funny.
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LOL!!