{"id":9303,"date":"2016-01-29T05:02:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T05:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2016\/01\/29\/chicken-gun\/"},"modified":"2016-01-29T05:02:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T05:02:07","slug":"chicken-gun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2016\/01\/29\/chicken-gun\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicken Gun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nThe true story of the Chicken Gun. Too funny not to share!<br \/>\n\tSometimes it does take a rocket scientist!<\/p>\n<p>\tScientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch standard 4 pound<br \/>\n\tDead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets and the space<br \/>\n\tShuttle, all traveling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the<br \/>\n\tFrequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of<br \/>\n\tThe windshields.<\/p>\n<p>\tBritish engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the<br \/>\n\tWindshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were made, and<br \/>\n\tA gun was sent to the British engineers.<\/p>\n<p>\tWHEN THE GUN WAS FIRED, THE ENGINEERS STOOD SHOCKED  AS THE CHICKEN<br \/>\n\tHURLED OUT OF THE BARREL, CRASHED INTO THE SHATTERPROOF SHIELD,<br \/>\n\tSMASHED IT TO SMITHEREENS, BLASTED THROUGH THE CONTROL  CONSOLE,<br \/>\n\tSNAPPED THE ENGINEER&#8217;S BACK-REST IN TWO, AND EMBEDDED ITSELF IN THE<br \/>\n\tBACK WALL OF THE CABIN, LIKE AN ARROW SHOT FROM A BOW.<\/p>\n<p>\tTHE HORRIFIED BRITS SENT NASA THE DISASTROUS RESULTS OF THE<br \/>\n\tEXPERIMENT, ALONG WITH THE DESIGNS OF THE WINDSHIELD AND BEGGED THE<br \/>\n\tU.S. SCIENTISTS FOR SUGGESTIONS.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tNASA RESPONDED WITH A ONE-LINE MEMO   :<\/p>\n<p>\t&quot;DEFROST THE CHICKEN.&quot;<br \/>\n\t(TRUE STORY)<\/p>\n<p>\tConfession &#8211; This is not a true story.  But it was funny anyhow \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The true story of the Chicken Gun. Too funny not to share! Sometimes it does take a rocket scientist! Scientists at NASA built a gun specifically to launch standard 4 pound Dead chickens at the windshields of airliners, military jets&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}