Found this today and just had to share!!

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, 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 Brits sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the US scientists for suggestions.

(You're gonna love this . . ..)

NASA responded with a one-line memo –



"Defrost the chicken."

Oh Yonuh,

Thanks for the laugh! I found this so funny I had to learn more.

Apparently this is not TOTALLY a joke -- there really is a "chicken gun"

Here is a good link to separate fact from fun... Chicken gun

This is funny, yet true? Cool! Bird strikes and chicken guns?
Who would've thought? lol...

I often think that the best humor in life comes from real stuff, don't you?

Absolutely!!!

That's what I loved about George Carlin - he always took the mundane everyday happenings and made them funny. I can never forget his skit about petting a cat! It makes me smile every time I think about it.