This is reminding me of a story i heard about NASAthe_leander wrote:Think you engineering types might like this one...
Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (true story)
Scientists at Roll Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, and military jets, 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.
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 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 Yanks sent Rolls Royce the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the British scientists for suggestions.
Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo:
"Defrost the chicken."
When the first Astronauts were sent into spade NASA spent Several million dollars developing a pen that would be able to write in zero gravity a huge amount of time was spent getting the right ink which would flow in a no gravity situation and the little ball to let the ink out was made out of some super alloy that could withstand the big changes in temperature that you find in space, after all that work the pens were said to be 50% effective
The russains used a pencil
it worked 100% of the time
