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    Rocket Scientist Required

    Supposedly a true story. Funny anyway,even if it's not.

    British scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens
    at the windshields of airliners and military jets all travelling at maximum velocity.

    The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to
    test the strength of the windshields.

    American 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 American 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 back-rest in two and
    embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin like an arrow shot from a bow..

    The horrified Yanks sent Rolls Royce video footage of the disastrous results of the experiment,
    along with the designs of the windshield and begged the British scientists for suggestions.

    You're going to love this......














    Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo:



    "Try again, but this time defrost the chicken first"


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    Didn't Mythbusters tackle that one?
    Can't remember the outcome though.

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    it was true...

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    Yeah.....its not like it's Rocket Salad you know.

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