I had this come though an email this morning. A good start to the day I think
Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (true story)..
Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windscreens of airliners and military jets all travelling at maximum velocity.
The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windscreens.
American engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the windscreens 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 hurled out of the barrel crashed into the shatterproof screen, 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 Americans sent Rolls Royce the disastrous results of their experiment, along with the designs of the new train's windscreen, and begged the British scientists for suggestions.
Rolls Royce scientists responded with a one-line memo:
"Defrost the chicken."
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