Alleged to be true?

[Gregory Matthews]

Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch standard 4 pound 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 hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapp ed 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 Brits sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the U.S. scientists for suggestions.

NASA responded with a one-line memo --

"Defrost the chicken."

[CoAspen]

[rudywoofs (Pam)]

[phkrause]

I have to add my to Pams and CoAspen

[LifeHiscost]

I was just about ready to hang it up and then something like this comes along to make it all worthwhile.

God/Jesus cares!

[Gail]

That's why they get paid the big bucks!!

[Bravus]

Physics also says it's the mass and therefore the momentum that does the damage, not the hardness...

But, ya know, far be it from me to spoil a good yarn.

[Gregory Matthews]

To all: I posted it because Is thought it to be funny, not because I believed it.

Sometimes, we humans fail to notice what should be obvious. I think that story illustrates that idea, even if the point Bravus made tells us that it does not illustrate the neglect of the obvious.