Best way to have an egg drop 15 feet and SURVIVE

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: PizzaDude
PEANUT BUTTER


I've tested it myself and it works. We had to do this for a physics project in high school and no one who used this method cracked their egg, and we were dropping them 2 stories.

chunky or smooth? extra chunky?

 

[randay]

Originally posted by: FoBoT

Originally posted by: PizzaDude
PEANUT BUTTER


I've tested it myself and it works. We had to do this for a physics project in high school and no one who used this method cracked their egg, and we were dropping them 2 stories.

chunky or smooth? extra chunky?

You want some peanut butter cups in your eggs?

 

[psydancerqt]

i put cotton stuffing... the stuff people use for fake snow... in a large butter container. i put my egg 1/3 the way down and covered it up. i taped a grocery bag to the top for a parachute.

 

[chambersc]

Originally posted by: OrganizedChaos
put it back in the chicken and drop the chicken.

But the egg came first.

 

[HeroOfPellinor]

Suspend the egg in pantyhose.

 

[mattlear]

I'm trying to remember back to 5th grade when we did this - I think I put the egg in a container filled with salt water. The salt water actually cusioned the landing of the egg and it didn't break.

I can't remember where I got the idea from - maybe 3-2-1 Contact or one of those other educational TV shows I used to watch.

-Matt

 

[swimscubasteve]

packing peanuts.

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[Syrch]

when i did it i put a 45 pound weight on top of it, dropped it 15 feet. Never found the egg so theres no proof it broke!

 

[Skunkwourk]

I used posterboard to make a cube packed tightly with cotton inside or foam.

 

[JImmyK]

I did this 15 years ago but it worked from 22 feet (2 stories).

you need a shoe box, stocking, and 2 bic pens. Place the egg in the stocking which is stretched through the box. Tie the stocking ends to the pens on the outside and just start twisting the BICs until it gets super tight, worked like a charm.

 

[pontifex]

i unfortunately never go to do this

 

[IronWing]

Wrap the egg in lead foil then sink in a block of concrete. Drop the block. Explain that this a demo of Schrodinger's Egg. Get an A.

 

[mordantmonkey]

i had to fit mine in a half pint milk carton. i roughly carved styrofoam and then made a tight fit with clay. The egg didn't break but with this method i'm sure the yolk inside was scrambled.

 

[Eeezee]

Throw the egg as hard as you can

 

[Slew Foot]

Stick it in the middle of a roll of paper towels or toilet paper.

 

[MaxDepth]

Wow, this was long ago. I did mine with balsa sticks.

Basically, I created torsial twistings around the egg so that the wooden structure gave at the point of impact and the other two axis maintained integrity. After the energy of impact dissipated, the twisting went back (sort of) to its original shape.

It was heavy enough to land directly on the target. We didn't have to build a launcher, though. Instead we all had to use a trebuchet that we all built from the previous assignment.

 

[Revolution09]

haha I remember this from back in grade school what i did was get a box, fill it with water balloons, plastic bags partially blown up with air, etc. and put the egg in the middle of all these. it worked great I dropped it more than once from 2 stories up and still survived.

 

[her209]

Suspend the egg in jello.




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[Queasy]

Originally posted by: PAB

Originally posted by: fs5
suspend egg inside box with rubber bands.

Tried that, the vertical movement is too high and it hits the ground.

Really? Worked for my group.

 

[randay]

use a piccoZ or any of those small remote controlled helicopters!

 

[indamixx99]

Stick the egg inside a toilet paper roll, wrap that with bubble wrap, and put that inside the middle of a box lined with the same foam used for seat cushions. Worked great for me. The egg survived a 100ft drop, a round of kickball, and me sitting on the box.

 

[IronWing]

Dress in up in a hampster suit and leave a roll of duct tape on the ledge.

 

[shortylickens]

-SHORTY's Contribution-

When I did it I used a large ziplock bag and a buttload of elmers school glue.
I put the egg in the bag with the glue and sealed it up.
It cant dry out. The heavy liquid makes an excellent safety cushion for the egg,
Then I put the overstuffed bag into a 2 liter bottle (cut it up and taped it back together) and filled the two liter with gelatin.
Not jello. Real gelatin mix, like one big box. Filled a large bowl and put it in the fridge. Next morning I scooped it out and shoved it in the bottle. That stuff is also really tough yet able to absorb impact.

It worked well. The only downside was my teacher had to fish around in a gallon of white glue to find the egg(s). I tried to tell him if the glue wasn't stained yellow the egg didn't break.

 

[DrPizza]

I have some great advice if you need to build a lightweight "catcher" for an egg that won't break the egg... We've successfully dropped eggs 5 stories into an 8 inch tall device made out of a styrofoam cup, a manilla folder, and some paper, string, and rubberband.

But, for what you're doing... 15 feet?! That's it???
A) Put egg in baggy; get rid of all air.
B) Cut top of a 2-liter bottle off (use this as a mold)
C) Get a can of GreatStuff (expanding foam used for insulating cracks)
D) keeping the egg centered, fill the 2 liter bottle with that foam.
E) The egg will possibly survive a drop from *ANY* height, due to terminal velocity. I believe we finally got such a device to fail after drop kicking it, spiking it on the ground, and finally, playing baseball with it.


Another suggestion: have a way to keep it suspended in the center of a dilatent fluid. (Look up what happens to corn starch and how you can mix it *just* right such that it's a viscous liquid, but instantly turns into a solid when placed under shearing forces.) When a capsule filled this way hits the ground, the medium surrounding the egg becomes as hard as concrete. The egg has no way to crack.

 

[DrPizza]

Oh, one other thing: if you're allowed to bring in an egg of your choice, don't get a grocery store egg... Find a farm and ask for an egg from a guinea hen. (Type of chicken) Those things are practically unbreakable without any help! I've tossed them 30 feet across the lawn and they just hit the ground and roll.


edit: I could probably find some guinea eggs laying around, but they stopped laying them about 4 months ago.
Should be quite... unpleasant when they break. You may even want to lose on purpose just for the fun of that... people puking from the smell