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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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