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DickyD

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Rocket science.
« on: November 21, 2012, 05:47:53 pm »

Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (true story)...

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

The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowlto test the strength of the windshields.
American engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test iton 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 shot 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 twoand embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin like an arrow shot from a bow..
The horrified Americans 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:                                                                   


"Defrost the chicken."
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Re: Rocket science.
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2012, 06:25:32 pm »

rofl mate , good 1  {-) {-)
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Re: Rocket science.
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2012, 08:56:39 pm »

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Re: Rocket science.
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2012, 05:08:38 pm »

old  but still good !
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Re: Rocket science.
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2012, 12:08:34 am »

Rocket science?  We used to live close to the Johnson Spacecraft Center, in Houston, Texas.  That's where much of the engineering and control of the manned spacecraft missions happened.  So once in a while you would see a man (or woman) wearing a T-shirt that said "YES, I REALLY AM A ROCKET SCIENTIST."   :o
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