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Rube Goldberg? Surely if this was a British project, it would be Heath Robinson!--193.128.72.68 15:53, 6 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure when that crept in... I've taken it out. Heath Robinson doesn't quite seem right, either - it's a surreal mechanical idea, but his were usually much more complex than simply "take a chicken..." - so I've not mentioned him. (Incidentally, when David Langford wrote about a fictional version of Aldermaston, he set it at "Robinson Heath"...) Shimgray | talk | 17:39, 7 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'd like to see more on the strategic purpose of the project. Kent Wang 00:55, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Exploding nuclear chickens... what more strategic purpose do you need? Seriously, I wonder too, because the Rhine is so far to the west that I wouldn't see what purpose they could have served except for some sort of suicide last-ditch effort in case the Ruskis would have made it all the way through Germany and were now about to take France.

The Davy Crockett insanity is rather similar to this, btw. --Bringa 23:07, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Yep, that was the idea, more or less. It was worried that the Soviets would advance west. Davy Crockett was supposed to be used in the same role. Rsynnott 15:18, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"The Rhine" is probably a mistake - someone reading British Army of the Rhine literally. I've changed it to the North German Plain, which is mentioned in one of the sources and looks a little bit more plausible. Shimgray | talk | 21:02, 14 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"...tested outdoors in a flooded gravel pit near Sevenoaks in Kent." Is this the gravel pit that became Sevenoaks Wildlife Reserve? Are there any other gravel pits near Sevenoaks? (I know there is a quarry in the Bat & Ball area of Sevenoaks). —Preceding unsigned comment added by JamesCopeland (talk • contribs) 16:45, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I edited the line "The chickens would be sealed inside the casing, with a supply of food and water; they would remain alive for a week or so, which was the expected maximum lifetime of the bomb in any case.", removing everything after the last comma. 1 week seems a strange lifetime for a bomb, and none of the references say that. 99.23.147.10 (talk) 04:24, 4 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Nonsense[edit]

As anyone with a root cellar knows, buried objects do not get that cold. Below the frost line - several inches at most - and above bedrock, the temperature is a pretty constant 14 degrees Celsius (58 degrees Fahrenheit) year-round. So the premise is itself an indication that this is an urban myth at best. 96.35.160.223 (talk) 14:29, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nobody said the folk designing this had a root cellar. There're excellent reliable sources that support this claim, so I'm pretty confident it's true (or at least meets the requirements for being in the article). —me_and 10:15, 29 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The plan was actually have chicken farms over the nuclear devices. This, it was hoped, would mask the heat difference created by the radioactive material. Acorn897 (talk) 02:15, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Err.... No. Andy Dingley (talk) 08:33, 31 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]