Not sure if this is true or not... but I found it amusing and it reminded me of some of the amusing brithish/american banter ;)
Don't take it personally, it's just a joke
Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!
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 going to love this...
NASA responded with a one-line memo: "Defrost the
chicken."