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Our boys at NASA.

Cancer still not cured.





It just demonstrates how you have to know the requirements up

front.... communication is everything! 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."

hehe

did ya hear that one about how in the 1960's NASA spent many millions of dollars developing a pen that wrote upside down, and all the while the Russians just used a pencil? hehe

Hey, I have a space pen, and it rocks!



Helmut