[BITList] Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!!

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    Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead
    chickens at the windshields of airliners and military jets, all
    travelling at maximum velocity. The idea was to simulate the
    frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the
    strength of the windshields.
    American 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 American engineers.
    When the gun was fired, the engineers watched in shock 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.
    The horrified engineers sent Rolls Royce the film of the disastrous
    results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield
    and begged the British scientists for suggestions.

    You're going to love this......
    Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo...
    'Defrost the chicken'.

 

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