Saturday, November 10, 2007

One example is the story about the Turkey, the Cannon, and the Airplane

Once upon a time there was a company who developed a special cannon that would shoot (discharge) turkeys. (The cannon was not for shooting at turkeys, but to shoot turkeys at something.)
The purpose of this cannon was to help manufactures of windshields for airplanes ascertain if their windshields were strong enough to withstand the frequent hazard of running into a flock of birds, especially on takeoff and landing.
The cannon was designed and built by engineers. The engineers also wrote a detailed and technical operations manual.
The cannon was purchased by a company manufacturing windshields for airplanes. The manual was read by their engineers… however; there was a problem.
Every time they shot a turkey at their windshield, the windshield shattered. They looked at the manual again. They looked at their windshields again. Finally they called the company that manufactured the cannon…who came to observe.
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(This is an apocryphal story; however, provides a good example)

1 comment:

CR Petersen said...

No one wrote in the manual that the turkeys should be thawed first!