Win 5 dollars.

[midnghtraver]

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I was thinking of soaking my egg in vinegar for a couple days before the experiment so it gets all soft and doesn't break but I'm not sure if my teacher would be cool with that.

[darkshark]

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Build any design you want and offset the additional weight with helium.

[iironiic]

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You essentially want to use material that maximizes the impact time between the egg and the surface. I forgot what the technical name is, but at least I remembered some physics since I took the class about 3-4 years ago! (:

[justin_ator]

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rushy, it doesn't matter what side it lands on because the whole thing is padded inside for one, and second it has a parachute as well.

padded on the inside, one side opened and stayed shut with velcro (tape works fine), with string and a lightweight parachute attached at the top to slow the fall.

EDIT: I actually used this same design when we did bottle rocket launches with eggs in physics, I got to do three launches with one egg. First one worked like a charm, parachute and all, second one the parachute got stuck and didn't deploy but the egg lived somehow, and the third...lmao it failed to deploy and it came down and hit the edge of the bleachers, crushed the egg and got it everywhere rofl.

[leonid]

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memory foam would be heavier than 75g

[leonid]

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put the egg inside a tenga and drop
wait that's probably too heavy too

[darkshark]

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Build cube cage out of popsicle sticks and gorilla glue.
Suspend egg with rubber bands.

As long as the rubber bands are stretched tightly enough, that egg won't hit anything at all. Obviously create slings from the rubber bands (could be out of any material) so that it cradles the egg evenly.

A popsicle stick weighs 1.49 grams, gives you quite a bit of room to work with. I would even go as far as cutting notches in the popsicle sticks where they can link together at the corners, that way the tensile forces of the rubber bands also help keep the structure together at impact.

[Hateandhatred]

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attach it to a helium filled balloon. watch it slowly hover down and land like a butterfly.

Then for dramatic effect, ask the evaluator if he's mad.

[Gravity Kitten]

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shayne wit dat cinema 4d swag

but ye everything he said would work
i only want him to win because he's already richer than all of you.

[leonid]

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attach a micro homing missile so the egg tracks and smashes into the teacher's face

[Hateandhatred]

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attach a micro homing missile so the egg tracks and smashes into the teacher's face

We have a winner

[Izzy]

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Use a hammer to break everyone elses eggs. There's no way the teacher would fail everyone.

[midnghtraver]

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The helium thing is ****ing genius. I Am doing that.

[UserNameGoesHere]

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Except grams are a unit of mass, NOT weight. Adding helium would decrease the weight, NOT the mass. Didn't they teach this? Although if your teacher is lazy you may slip by with it but a good teacher would penalize (and disqualify) for that.

Go with darkshark's design or justin_ator's design or some hybrid of the two.

[who_cares973]

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Build cube cage out of popsicle sticks and gorilla glue.
Suspend egg with rubber bands.

As long as the rubber bands are stretched tightly enough, that egg won't hit anything at all. Obviously create slings from the rubber bands (could be out of any material) so that it cradles the egg evenly.

A popsicle stick weighs 1.49 grams, gives you quite a bit of room to work with. I would even go as far as cutting notches in the popsicle sticks where they can link together at the corners, that way the tensile forces of the rubber bands also help keep the structure together at impact.

depending on the height of the drop the popsicles will break.