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You just can not make sense of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundations projects.
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 21 2012 @ 02:57 PM EDT
And they have been for a long time. About 25 years ago, I heard a joke about
one. The company making the locomotive for the first high-speed train borrowed
a chicken cannon from an aircraft manufacturer to test their windshields. A
while later they go back to the engineers at the aircraft company in a quandary
- every time they tested a windshield, it shattered even though it should have
been string enough to sustain the collision. After a bit of checking of their
test methods, the aircraft engineers sorted out their problem - they should stop
using frozen chickens.

John Macdonald

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Call... for Super Chicken! (cluck, awk!)
Authored by: betajet on Thursday, June 21 2012 @ 03:10 PM EDT
Sounds like a job for Super Chicken!

Seriously, a manager of mine once had a summer job operating a chicken cannon
for a UK aerospace firm.

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You just can not make sense of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundations projects.
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 21 2012 @ 04:01 PM EDT
...I apologize for doubting the merits of the chicken
cannon.

...but will observe that the NIH is or has conducted roughly
30 clinical trials of the effectiveness of homeopathy.
Please remember that 1M USD is on the low end for a clinical
trial.

(Essentially the notion that if you dilute a toxin to the
point where approximately 0 molecules remain in the
solution, that solution will be a potent cure for any
disease with similar symptoms.)

By comparison, Gates is doing fairly well.

--Erwin

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