Scientists at ISRO built a gun specifically to launch standard 2-kg 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.
NASA 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 NASA.
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 backrest in two, and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin, like an arrow shot from a bow.
The horrified NASA engineers sent ISRO the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the ISRO scientists for suggestions.
ISRO responded with a one-line memo: Defrost the chicken...
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