Take more than this to roust this brit today, went to a Tapas Bar last
night with a perpetual free beer ticket - awesome - not usually
partial to Spanish beer but after the 3rd 30oz bottle I started to
get a taste - today has been a long day.

There's a version of thie story where the reason the chicken didn't
thaw is 'cos a cat crawled into the chicken cannon whilst the
scientists took lunch waiting for the chicken to thaw!!

See:-

<http://www.snopes2.com/science/cannon.htm>

Cheers

Deri

On Thursday 13 Jun 2002 11:41 am, Barber, Kenneth L. wrote:
> i have to post this to try to roust out my favorite brit, Deri.
>
>
>
> Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist:
>
> TRUE STORY:
>
> Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch 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
> hurtled 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 Brits sent NASA the disastrous results of the
> experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, and begged
> the US scientists for suggestions.
>
> NASA responded with a one-line memo:
>
> Thaw the chicken.