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Gentlemen, Thaw Your Chickens

In order to ensure that their planes are protected against potential bird strikes, aerospace companies regularly test their creations against chicken carcasses.

In order to ensure that their planes are protected against potential bird strikes, aerospace companies regularly test their creations against chicken carcasses, which they launch at incredibly high velocities, in order to replicate a real-world scenario. These "chicken guns" have been known to fire both frozen and thawed chickens, but is there a difference between the two? Do frozen chickens do more damage, and foil the results?

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