Author Topic: Egg drop  (Read 3011 times)

forget the boxes. Wrap your egg in about 2 inches of bubblewrap, then wrap like 5 blankets around that. Your ball of fluffy softness should at least be a foot in diameter. Secure the blankets so they wont fall apart during the fall, safety pins, tape. But make sure the blankets are wrapped tightly in the outer layers so that it wont give in too much when it lands.

Buy a bag of cotton wool fluff or whatever that stuff is, put the egg inside, you win.

Fluids the way to go, something dense but not dense, like a giant thing of jello, you could eat some of it after.

Lots of duct tape.

Also, I just thought of something.  Suspend it in something with lots of rubber bands.

Or try suspending it in water.

Fluids the way to go, something dense but not dense, like a giant thing of jello, you could eat some of it after.
Yes because if you took basic physics you'd know that 100% of energy will be sent into the egg.

Great idea.

BRAINWAVE

Use egg cartons!  That's what they're for.

I did it. At astro camp. Basically we just wrapped in a bunch of packing stuff, other people cared about how fast it fell, us, we just cushioned it. :3
I did it. At astro camp.
astro camp.
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You wouldn't happen to live in Santa Clarita, would you?

I did one of these once.

My dad and I had this idea that egg yolks+whites have the right viscosity to protect a normal egg in a 30 foot drop.

We cracked about 7-8 eggs and put it all in a plastic container. We then slid the intact egg into the center and sealed the lid.

We went outside on the driveway and tossed the container up as high as we could throw it. Things looked promising until disaster struck.

When the small, plastic jar hit the ground, it exploded into a gooey, yellow mess, spraying eggs all over 2 cars and covering the drive way. This left a horrid mess that smelled like stuff. We spent quite a while hosing it off.


Good times! :D

Did the egg survive?

Did the egg survive?

It came out in only 3 pieces! :D

If the container had been a bit stronger and hadn't have broken, it would have survived perfectly fine. :(

*Actually nearly 100% of the energy would be transferred to the egg.