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		prototrout on Sept 25, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Mat... Chickens are used to test airplane windshields for bird impact resistance[1]; perhaps that's why. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun

bigiain on Sept 25, 2012 | [–]

"Why do our windscreens keep breaking?"

"Thaw the chicken"

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

modernshoggoth on Sept 25, 2012 | [–]

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

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