Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist

Engineers at NASA have developed a gun built specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space shuttle orbiter, 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. British engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on thewindshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made and one of the guns was sent to England and set up for test. But when it was fired at the train, engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurtled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield smashing it to smithereens, crashed through the control console, snapped the engineer's backrest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin. Horrified Britons sent NASA the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, and begged the U.S. scientists for suggestions. NASA's response was just one sentence: "Thaw the chicken."