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Re:How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material o... by prostoalex on Monday September 24, 2012 @08:47PM (#4567915)
"Scientists were soon hurling fortified tumblers off their nine-story facility and bombarding the glass, known internally as 0317, with frozen chickens."

What's the deal with frozen chicken tests? Don't some other objects, like tennis balls, work just the same but are a smaller hassle logistically?

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Re:How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material o... by prototrout on Monday September 24, 2012 @08:53PM (#4567928)
Chickens are used to test airplane windshields for bird impact resistance[1]; perhaps that's why.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun

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Re:How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material o... by bigiain on Monday September 24, 2012 @11:16PM (#4568374)
"Why do our windscreens keep breaking?"

"Thaw the chicken"

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

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Re:How Corning Created the Ultrathin, Ultrastrong Material o... by modernshoggoth on Monday September 24, 2012 @10:29PM (#4568216)
Well, I'm going home. That's pretty easily the coolest thing I've heard of today.
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