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The Physics of Superman
eieken writes "The physics of Superman mostly belong in the realm of comic books, but some scientists decided to give their input on the matter. The article tells of 'a scientific experiment in which a researcher put several chickens in a centrifuge and raised them in twice-normal gravity for months at a time. When they emerged, the chickens were stronger and had larger bones and muscles, and greater endurance. In other words, they were superchickens.' Do they have human sized centrifuges?"
My buddy had some chickens, just wild yard hens... we were boozin one day and kept bugging him to let us kill one. He finally agreed. We made spears out of knives duct taped to broken hockey sticks, a cheap ass bow with cheap ass arrows, basically any weapons we could create out of the contents of his garage. We spent hours chasing those fuckers around. I finally caught one by just climbing up a tree and grabbing the bastard. We chopped his head off and watched the body flop around for a while. If you could rewrite lord of the flies to be with drunken idiots in redneck town, it would have been that... only piggy was a chicken. I want a shot at these super chickens.