NASA have invented a new gun

[Andy the Coastie]

<font color='#0000FF'>Scientists at NASA have developed a gun, whose purpose it is to launch dead chickens. It is used to shoot a dead chicken at the windshields of airline jets, military jets, and the space shuttle, at that vehicle's maximum travelling velocity.

The idea is....to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl, and therefore determine if the windshields are strong enough. British engineers, upon hearing of the gun, were eager to test the gun out on the windshield of their new high speed trains.

However, upon the firing of the gun, the engineers watched in shock as the chicken shattered the windshield, smashed through the control console, snapped the engineer's backrest in two, and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin. Horrified, the engineers sent NASA the results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, and asked the NASA scientists for any suggestions.

The NASA scientists sent back a one sentence response:


&quot;Thaw the chicken.&quot;

[Helen F H]

Its like the old legend (probably happened but the navy involved has been lost to time) about the ferking big ship asking the blip on the radar screen ahead to alter course as they are much bigger than it, get a negative reply back several times, them getting a bit pissed off and demanding the other guys to alter course and the reply being &quot;we are a lighthouse, your call&quot;

Personal fave is:

Two warships passing in the English channel, one American, one British. &nbsp;The Americans radio ours and say &quot;and how is the worlds second biggest navy this morning?&quot; &nbsp;and got the reply &quot;we are fine thanks, how is the worlds second best?&quot; &nbsp;

ohhhh bitchy.