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Gator
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| Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 7:46 am Post subject: WE DON'T READ NO DIR |
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This may be the origin of the Royal Canadian Air Farce's chicken cannon.
Years ago, NASA determined that they could predict that impact of birds flying into aircraft and spacecraft by building a cannon of sorts that would fire a high velocity chicken carcass at a stationary aircraft in a research lab. As the carcass hit the aircraft, a certain amount of damage would be sustained. The scientists could then evaluate the damage and redesign if necessary. The system worked really well - so well in fact that it caught the attention of the people at British Rail who were in the process of trying to design a high speed rail system for England. They made the necesarry arrangements to lease the machine for a year or so.
The first time they fired a chicken at the front of one of their high speed trains, the carcass went through the windshield, the control panel on the dashboard, the engineer's seat and a circuit breaker box on the wall behind the engineer's chair. Of course, the research staff were perplexed that all of that damage could be caused by one scrawny chicken travelling at about 100 Miles Per Hour. They sent off a letter to NASA demanding an explanation. NASA's reply consisted of one simple sentence:
FIRST THAW OUT THE CHICKEN.
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Phillippe
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| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 2:37 am Post subject: |
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We laugh.. but I don't doubt the validity of stories like these! 
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| Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:13 am Post subject: |
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Check out: "http://www.snopes.com/science/cannon.htm"
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PuuurrrMoon
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| Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 12:34 am Post subject: |
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Good, well thought out experiment 
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Phillippe
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Boomer,
That particular story may be a half truth (or less so) but at a school I attented, we had a chemistry teacher try an experiment that failed.. and failed. Finally, he tested it again and blew the windows out of his office. He never looked to see if he was using the right chemicals. People just do silly things.
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Gator
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Gentlemen, this is on the fun page. I neither know nor care whether it is true. I just thought it was somewhat of a chuckle. If it is true, or at least based on a true story, so much the better.
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