[time-nuts] OT NASA Research

[J. Forster]

> Chicken cannon was a British innovation !!!!
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> From Chicken Cannon Wiki.
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> *"The chicken gun was first used in the mid 1950s at de Havilland
> Aircraft<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland>,
> Hatfield <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatfield,_Hertfordshire>, UK."*
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> They refer to the "thaw your chicken" incident as an urban myth :
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> *"There is a longstanding urban
> legend<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_legend>about the gun being
> loaned to some other agency, who fired frozen chickens
> instead of thawed
> chickens."<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun#cite_note-1>


-John

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> Off topic.
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> Some time ago we talked about what would happen if a  legally-flown 4lbs
> weather balloon was being hit by an airplane.. I  think this is a similar,
> albeit somewhat more funny story, but it does show what  would happen due
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> the momentum during such an impact, keeping in  mind that they were "only"
> simulating the speed of a train, not an  airplane:
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> Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!!  (True  Story)
> 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 test the strength of the windshields by simulating the
> frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl  .
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> After hearing about the gun, British engineers were  eager to test it on
> the windshields of their new high speed  trains.  Arrangements were made
> for a
> gun to be 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.
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> The   horrified Brits sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment,
> along with the designs of the windshield and begged the US  scientists
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> suggestions.
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> You're gonna love this  ...
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> NASA responded  with a one-line memo  --
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> "Defrost the  chicken."
> (True Story)
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