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"Scientists were soon hurling fortified tumblers off their nine-story facility and bombarding the glass, known internally as 0317, with frozen chickens."

What's the deal with frozen chicken tests? Don't some other objects, like tennis balls, work just the same but are a smaller hassle logistically?



Chickens are used to test airplane windshields for bird impact resistance[1]; perhaps that's why.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun


"Why do our windscreens keep breaking?"

"Thaw the chicken"

(Yeah I know: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/blthaw.htm)


Well, I'm going home. That's pretty easily the coolest thing I've heard of today.




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