It takes a rocket scientist

[WillowIX]

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

[Spelca]

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]

[The Lilarcor]

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.

[Lord Lothar]

Originally posted by Kaltia: 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 too funny. That just shows how much money America has to waste.

[Sir Goulum]

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

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

[Horatio]

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

[Sir Krustin]

Originally posted by Kaltia: 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.

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!

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