Rocket Science

Scientists at NASA have developed a gun built specifically
to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners,
military jets and the space shuttle, 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 the windshields of their new high-speed
trains. Arrangements were made. But when the gun was
fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurtled
out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield,
smashed 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. 

The 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."