Michael Lorrey wrote:
>
> True story, about 15 years old or so. Read it first in the pages of
> Aviation Week & Space Technology....
Are you sure? All online sources list it as an urban legend:
http://www.google.com/search?q=frozen+chicken+urban+legend
(And no, this is not a prejudiced set of search terms. I would expect
this to pick up "This is not an urban legend" pages as well as "This is an
urban legend" pages, in case of a dispute. But since I didn't think of
that until after doing the original search, I went on to search, just in
case, on "frozen chicken actually true", and turned up only more
disconfirmations - plus, eerily enough, a link to an online copy of Vernor
Vinge's original "True Names" short story.)
Interesting comments from an original chicken tester:
http://www.urbanlegends.com/science/chicken_cannon.html
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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