Gives a whole new meaning to playing chicken.
That would be a massive COCK up
A chicken starts WW3?
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That would be a massive COCK up
Well, taking this seriously...
Since nuclear weapons have survived airplane crashes, partial detonations etc, I don't really think a chicken nibbling at the wiring is going to do it.
Oh, btw, minor nitpick: "The mines would have been detonated by wire or an eight-day timer. If they were disturbed they were set to explode within ten seconds."
I dunno though... it's ambiguous what would have counted as "tampering".
A chicken could easily peck at some of the wires inside the bomb, possibly detonating it. I assume that if they were dumb enough to come up with nuclear chicken land mines, they were too dumb to think about that possibility.
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Yeh, because the weapons designers at Aldermaston would not think of putting the chicken in a separate section. Moreover pecking at wires is unlikely to set off a bomb.
It sounds outlandish, but it does have some logic to it. Other proposals involved insulating blankets, but those are not remembered because we can't make fowl puns about them.
Hopefully, a badger going after the chicken in the buried mine would not be tampering.
Chickens are not exactly the best heat source but I see no problem with the idea itself. And if its the mid fifites it wouldnt really be that bad if WW 3 started for western europe. The russians were rather weak when it came to nukes and delivery methods so at most a few cities would have been hit in europe while the warsaw bloc would have been wiped from the map entirely.
I am of the opinion that it is always bad when a nuclear starts. Call me a wussie, but a nuclear World War III just seems to be bad all the time.
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Same here.
Also, I doubt that a) the chicken and the bomb are kept in the same area and b) the bomb has wires laying around that a chicken could peck at could possible set off a nuclear bomb. You have to give them some credit for not being completely stupid.
The chickens were framed! It was the badgers!
I am loving how a semi-serious thread about a mad project now has two animals to villify!
According to the article linked in the OP, the bomb was designed to give the chickens enough air, food, and water to last until the timer set the thing off, had it come to actually using the things, so the bomb wouldn't chicken out due because it got too cold, or anything like that.
However, putting all puns aside, I'd say that this is something that can definitely be filed in the category of OTL events/possibilities that belong in ASB.
I could not stop laughing when reading all the replies to this. You couldn't get something that funny on a comedy show.
BTW. I agree. The Human Race is a Sit-Com for ET.
Shouldn't that read Gets yolk?
BTW. I agree. The Human Race is a Sit-Com for ET.
Shouldn't that read Gets yolk?
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