Re: Thaw the Chicken
While I don't in any way question the competence or dedication of the engineers who are doing the analysis, sometimes the seemingly obvious gets overlooked in the heat of the moment. That's why Richard Feynman's demonstration on the effects of cold on rubber was so effective during the Challenger explosion. All I want to know is that someone factored in the correct properties of the foam in the analysis. Odds are they did but I just want to be sure it wasn't overlooked.
A hard piece of supercold foam might not compress and give on impact as much as normal temperature foam almost to the degree that a cup of water has different impact characteristics than a lump of ice.