Chicken Gun

S2, E2: The story goes that the British used a NASA designed Chicken Gun to test the windscreens of their high speed trains. The gun is used to build better protection for trains and aircraft against bird strikes. Bird carcasses are fired to see if the windscreens can endure explosive impact. Apparently the British asked NASA why the chickens were smashing the train windscreens easily, NASA replied, “Thaw the chickens.” The MythBusters set out to explore the truth. First they built a powerful air compression gun and fire chickens, frozen and thawed at aircraft windshields. The results were devastating. In Octopus Pregnancy, the tale is told of a young woman who inadvertently swallowed octopus eggs. Nine months later after complaining of cramps she gave birth to a baby octopus. Replicating conditions in the human stomach the MythBusters set out to prove or disprove the story. Their experiment takes them from the Monterey Bay Aquarium to a meeting with a top expert who specializes in parasites that live happily inside humans. Could a man be fatally assaulted and killed by his dirty laundry and washing machine? One urban legend said it happened in America. The man in question overloaded the machine, jumped on the clothing to pack it in, knocked the on-switch, spun around furiously then spilled a bottle of bleach which blinded him. Then to cap it all off, his dog peed on some baking soda, which caused an explosion and the man died. Totally fanciful or wholly true the MythBusters set out to form their own opinion with a revved-up washing machine and more than enough dirty laundry.