Egg Drop Ideas?

[Squiggles]

Get a really big party balloon, put the egg inside (cut off enough of the end that you can squeeze it through and still tie it up.) fill it up with water (like a LOT of water) and then duct tape the outside... the water should act like a shock absorber and the duct tape will prevent an explosion of the surrounding rubber.

well at least its imaginative

 

[Hawgh]

bubble wrap! or suspension in a thick liquid of some sort.

 

[NghtmaresXNoVaKaiNe]

Sounds to me like someone needs a Railgun...perhaps a flamethrower.

 

[arsenicCatnip]

For some reason, the cores of toilet paper rolls work very well as cushion. That was what I used in elementary school, and it worked well. Of course, we were dropping the eggs off a one-story building.

 

[lapan]

That just reminds me for some reason of an advanced class I took in Elementary where one of the kids stood an egg on it's smaller tip explaining it has to do with the position of the moon and a very steady hand. I came in the next day and did it by applying enough pressure to slightly crack it and make a flat surface. They didn't know that part and I got away with looking far more skilled than I actually was.

Is it you, Columbus?

 

[Wintermoot]

styrofoam padded with fluff or bubble plastic

 

[DanDanikov]

I wonder if you could mount the egg between four circular rails-if it were lightly held at a 3 or 9 o'clock position (by something it could break free from without breaking the egg) and guaranteed to land 6 o'clock position first, wouldn't the egg just accelerate and spin around the track?

 

[crimson5pheonix]

That just reminds me for some reason of an advanced class I took in Elementary where one of the kids stood an egg on it's smaller tip explaining it has to do with the position of the moon and a very steady hand. I came in the next day and did it by applying enough pressure to slightly crack it and make a flat surface. They didn't know that part and I got away with looking far more skilled than I actually was.

Is it you, Columbus?

It is where I got the idea. It was also a good laugh for me.