A guy on my team sent this to me last week (only just caught up to it!). According to some perfunctory Googling, it's an urban hoax, probably put forth by the snobby Brits againt the uncouth Yank, but still ... Enjai maadi ...
Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket
Scientist!! (This IS a true story)
Scientists at Roll Royce built a gun specifically to
launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, and military jets, all
traveling at maximum velocity. The idea was to simulate the frequent incidents
of collisions with airborne fowl and 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 in
2003 for testing.
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 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 (see below)
"Defrost the
chicken."
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