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

Scientists at the Canadian Research Facility built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of Airlines and military jets, 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. NASA 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 NASA 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 backrest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow shot from a bow. The horrified Americans sent the Canadian Research Facility the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the Canadian scientists for suggestions. The Canadian Research Facility responded with a one-line memo: "Defrost the chicken."

<font color="#ff6666">LMAO, sounds so like some test engineers I know :D </font>

<font color="cadetblue">Once again Canadian ingenuity rears its head. ;) </font>

Did no one see the chicken cannon on air force? It's intellectual piracy!! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Very funny :D

<font color="cadetblue">It's Air FARCE [img]tongue.gif[/img] </font>

This reminds me of the time we bought a single M-16 assualy rifle from them and the made the C-7 and sent the M-16 back :D

That's <font color=cyan>[I]<H3>ugly</H3>[I]</font>head.
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That's <font color=cyan>[I]<H3>ugly</H3>[I]</font>head.
http://216.40.249.192/mysmilies/contrib/icw/028.gif</font>[/QUOTE]I think all head is good!

BUMP [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Not that I'm against spam or anything but this would be considered "bad" spam and "bad" spam is the sort that gets you suspended or banned ;)
I know it's a funny story and all but there's no reason to bump a topic while it's still on the front page [img]smile.gif[/img]

*MiniMod Mode Off* :D

Well, for uses against spam, shoot the frozen turkey!

On a side now, the Marines should do that, shoot stone cold frozen chickens down to targets below at maximum velocity, that way, we hit some targets while they get some food.

AHHAAHHAHAHHAHA... that was the only time that i laughed... all day...

<font color="00cc99">LMAO :D [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] </font>

Hee-Hee. When all else fails fire the Chicken! [img]graemlins/1drunk.gif[/img]

Woo, reminds me of another story I heard: Back in the Space Race the Americans spent billions creating a pen that could write upside down, in water, without gravity etc, because they weren't sure what the effects of non-gravity would be on a pen.
The Russians took a pencil.

LOL [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img]

good one [img]smile.gif[/img]

That's <font color=cyan>[I]<H3>ugly</H3>[I]</font>head.
http://216.40.249.192/mysmilies/contrib/icw/028.gif</font>[/QUOTE]I think all head is good!</font>[/QUOTE]*giggle* [img]graemlins/blush.gif[/img] *snicker*

Oh and I'd seen this story someplace a while back...ridiculous enough to be true! LOL

hahahahah!

LMAO animal! Great joke! But launching dead chickens at airplanes? Thank god I´m not a pilot :D

Hmmm... Yea, I think I saw something about this 'chicken testing' on Discovery a while ago on that flight programme... I think. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Well with the chicken and space race stories, I gather a few things
1. We're too literal
2. We don't read instructions
3. We think too hard and thus make a billion dollar pen while russia makes a pencil
4. The US Scientists have taken being "the smartest of the world" to their heads and thus anyone can outsmart them
5. people of the united states like making lists like this.

<font color="cadetblue">Lol too funny. That just shows how much money America has to waste.</font>

Oh come on, I'd just love to announce Please Fasten you seatbelts, ladies and gentlmen, we are running into some dead chickens. We will update you in 5 minutes :D :D :D

I've put an order down for one "Anti Air Craft Ballistic Poultry Launcher".

I spent 50 more quid and got the added "Kentuckey Fried" feature :D

It occurs to me that the Americans might have conciously avoided taking pencils for a very simple reason - pencils have to be sharpened. Flying graphite and wood shavings could get into vital spacecraft components, and perhaps bridge a switch causing critical malfunctions (such as a retro firing at exactly the wrong time!)

And mechanical pencils have their failings, too. Aside from broken graphite fragments potentially being released, they're still dependant on gravity to a certain extent - to feed new leads into the tip after the old one is used up.

edit> and the russians weren't the most safety concious of the bunch when sending people out into space! :D

[ 11-17-2002, 01:13 PM: Message edited by: Sir Krustin ]