Sharing technology?

[Edbear]

NASA scientists once built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at maximum velocity at the windshields of airliners, military jets, and the space shuttle, to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.

Eager to test it on the windshields of their new high-speed trains, British engineers fired the gun and were shocked as the chicken hurtled out of the barrel, shattered the shatterproof windshield, blasted through the control console, broke the engineer's backrest and embedded itself in rear cabin wall.

The horrified engineers sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment along with the designs of the windshield, and begged the US scientists for help. NASA responded with a one-line memo: "First thaw the chicken."

[hayd3n]

lol awesome

[BuzzardNZ]

I first heard that joke around 20 years ago.

[Edbear]

I first heard that joke around 20 years ago.

What goes around, comes around...

[caspernz]

That's from the same era as when the Yanks spent a small fortune to design a ball point pen that would work in outer space...the Russians just used a pencil

[onearmedbandit]

That's from the same era as when the Yanks spent a small fortune to design a ball point pen that would work in outer space...the Russians just used a pencil

Ahhh yes the myth era.

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

[Edbear]

Ahhh yes the myth era.

http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/spacepen.asp

Snopes is your friend!

[Smifffy]

Snopes is your friend!

...and while you're there: http://www.snopes.com/science/cannon.asp

[awa355]

Have snopes investigated whether Honda riders are gay?? Personaly, I dont believe this myth has any truth

Certainly an interesting site.

[Edbear]

...and while you're there: http://www.snopes.com/science/cannon.asp

Ha ha! From one who always checks stories out, I plead brain fade in a moment of mirth.