Dropping Eggs

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http://xkcd.com/510/

Has any one of you done this experiment?

I once did it with a nylon bag as a parachute, paper as the holding bag and aluminum folio for protection.

Our egg was able to survive with only a crack. And our set was the cheapest :pimp:
 
Yea, I have done this, ours had two partly hollowed foam sponges taped around it and an envelope as a parachute.

It failed.
Badly.
 
Everyone did this in Science class in 7th grade. I basically put my egg in a container and stuffed as much tissue as possible in it. After a few drops I decided it'd be good if I put popcorn cernels inside the container. Extremly dumb idea as the stupid cernels broke my egg.
 
Yeah, we did this when I was in year 7 (back in 1999!!!)
I remember that we did quite well, as we were one of the few groups to realise that the best way to stop the egg from breaking was to lower its speed in the air to ensure a slow touchdown!
Likewise, we used lunch bags and plastic bags as a parachute, but unfortunately the first time we tried the bag had a hole in it! all i can say is SPLAT.
 
We did this in 8th grade. I wrapped mine in bubble wrap and stuffed it into a box. It was one of only 2 or 3 that survived.
 
I dropped eggs from the third floor onto peoples' heads.. but that's probably a different kind of experiment X)
Me and a bunch of friends always used to play catch with eggs. Hilarity was always imminent.
 
I did this in fifth grade, fun experiment. My project was the most creative in the class, I made a styrofoam box and filled it with Jello, and it worked! But then again, most of the eggs survived.
 
We did this as an extra credit assignment in our AP Physics class my senior year but our conditions were a bit more strict. We were only allowed to use toothpicks and a hot glue gun for supplies and our final containment structure or whatever had a weight limit that was very light. We got more points if our structure was built aerodynamically to drop "faster" but still kept the egg intact. At first it seemed pretty hard to imagine only toothpicks and glue could prevent an egg from breaking but by the time of the drop most people had found a successful method and structure. A lot of us, myself included, ended up making thin strands with the glue to form sort of a meshy spider web to hold the egg inside a hard outer layer toothpick cage. Kind of hard to explain the glue web but the strands were extremely thin. This kept the egg suspended and had a similar effect of shocks. Most people's toothpick structures were also designed to break away or crunch like modern day cars. It was actually a pretty fun senior year project. Unfortunately, mine wasn't fastest.
 
I did something similar to carl, but I used elastic bands. We took a large box and put the egg in the middle, and had elastics strapping it to each corner. they were taut enough that it couldn't touch any of the sides no matter how hard it was dropped or thrown.
 
I actually had to do this in 3rd grade for a school project.

I made a cone out of posterboard, surrounded the egg with tissue paper and attached a parachute from a small plastic army soldier.

The egg survived the treacherous 30 foot drop with ease.
 
I did this experiment freshman year, I just took the thing the egg came in, cut it in half, got two plastic bags filled them with air so they could be cushions, then put them in container then put the egg in between then rubber banded the whole thing together. It survived the initial drop off the bleachers, but when too many people's eggs survived the teacher took them all to the top of the school highest point, ( apprx. 4 stories) and dropped them on to concrete. I think 5 survived, mine did not because the egg slipped out at the last second, how it happened I do not know.
 
i did this with only popsicle sticks. we made it so that the egg never felt the initial crash, but some popsicle sticks broke and the egg got a much less harder hit when it hit the ground. Also, twinkies work.
 
we did something similar at university, but we had to make a bottle rocket and the competition was to see who could get their egg the highest and bring it back to earth safely. unfortunately, our parachute fell off halfway through the descent.
 
I remember doing this in physics back in HS. I took a bunch of that foam stuff you put under matresses or whatever, then stuffed it into a small box. Survived a fall off the stadium with 3 eggs, which is what was needed for the extra credit.
 
I did this when I volunteered at a museum a while ago, with the requirement that it had to be made out of tissue paper and tape. I don't remember exactly what we did except that our egg ended up falling out of the structure, but then it landed on a pile of tissue paper and only ended up with a crack or two.
 
Done it. Used a foam cup, lined it with more foam, put the egg inside, stuck toothpicks in the cup, covered that with more foam, and chucked it down.

It broke, of course. Parachutes are the way to go.
 
We did this in 7th grade.
What we did was but the egg in a lot of aluminum cover and put 2 helium balloons on it, so it won't plummet to the ground. we wanted to put the egg in a basket, but it was against the rules.
 
I wrapped my egg around two roll of foam plastic, attached two pieces of string near the egg, so it would stay firmly inside. No parachutes, because they are overrated. I did this in 6th grade and my egg was one of the only ones that didn't crack. Simple idea with a simple execution worked the best. The other kids had all these fancy huge boxes with all the possible shit inside them. They looked good allright but all fell like stones. Mine flew smoothly down and barely made a sound when it hit the ground.

Yes, even after almost 6 years I'm still proud of that achievement. Childhood achievements top easily any others.
 
I've done it before at my summer camp, but using duct tape and stuffing. Lets just say nothing survived. Now, years later, I have to do it again for Science Olympiad, with a twist: the egg is on a bottle rocket.
 
yah ive done the whole egg thing a couple of years ago. I seem to remember we pissed around for the entire lesson and then just stuck it in a cardboard box.
Me and a bunch of friends always used to play catch with eggs.
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I remember another class doing this in grade 6 and then, like Carl, I had to do a version of it with more restrictions in Physics 11. Was a pretty fun project but we couldn't explain the reasoning for what we did so our marks weren't too high =(
 
for some reason we never did this, though we did build bridges out of only paper and glue. We also built guitars, but that was more of a creativity project than anything.
 
I did this by filling a nalgene bottle with jelly and suspending the egg in the middle.

It worked, but it was kind of disgusting trying to check if the egg had cracked or not...
 
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