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This is for all you british car nuts

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Subject: This is for all you british car nuts
From: DSRGR@aol.com
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 07:02:44 EST
   Scientists at NASA had developed a gun whose purpose is to launch
 dead chickens at extreme velocities.  No, this isn't the result of
 over-competitive engineers at the annual Goddard Chicken Toss
 (though that would be a perfectly understandable consequence.)  The
 gun is used to shoot dead chickens at the windshields of airline
 jets, military jets, and the space shuttle, (while they are parked,
 that is) at that vehicle's maximum velocity it could be traveling
 while in "bird space."  As such, it simulates the frequent incidents
 of collisions with airborne fowl, and therefore determine if the
 windshields were designed strong enough.

    British engineers, upon hearing of the gun, were eager to test the
 gun out on the windshield of their new high speed trains.  However,
 upon firing the gun, the engineers watched in shock as the chicken
 shattered the windshield, smashed through the control console,
 snapped the engineer's chair backrest in two, and embedded itself
 into the back of the cabin.  (Luckily, the train was unmanned at the
 time :o)

    Horrified, the engineers sent NASA the results of the experiment,
 along with the design of the windshield, and asked the NASA
 scientists for any suggestions.

    NASA sent back a one-sentence response:  "Thaw the chicken first."

Hope you laughed as hard as I did..... Gene,,, 65 Ocelot DSR

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