Rocket Scientists and the Chicken
As heard on The Phil Valentine Show / Unconfirmed but very funny - source unknown

Sometimes it DOES take a rocket scientist... 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 was to simulate the frequent
incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the
windshields. European 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 windshield and 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.

Horrified, the Europeans sent NASA the disastrous results of the
experiment, along with the designs of the windshield, begging the US
scientists for suggestions.

NASA's response was just one sentence: "Thaw the chicken."