If you threw an egg into a pillow, would the egg break? And Why?
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It depends how hard you threw the egg into the pillow.
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Increase the drag, or resistance by enlarging the surface area. The parachute is a simple solution. \n\nHave you thought of making a whirly-bird/helicopter-type device to slow down the fall of the egg? Balsa wood angled correctly should be able to produce simple a rotary blade that would slow down the decent of your egg. Keep me informed.
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I like the jello answer. I would use a bunch of cotton, but also find a way to suspend your egg in a number of rubber bands. They need to be tight enough so they don't stretch too far, but loose enough so they move on impact. In combination, the cotton and the rubber bands should protect your egg.
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The reason vinegar is typically put in water is not to make the eggs clean easier. Instead, adding vinegar ensures that should the egg have a small crack in it, the white will stay inside the shell, rather than pour out into the boiling water (resulting in egg-drop soup, not boiled eggs).
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It doesn't say that the egg has to land on the concrete pavement!  Only that it is dropped 5 feet above a concrete pavement!  So I suppose you could have 5 feet of mattresses and lift the egg up about an inch or so and drop it down onto the mattresses, so that it was actually being dropped "5 feet above a concrete pavement without it breaking and without catching it"!\n\nBasically a play on words as this is:\n\nJUMP TABLES: Bet a bunch of friends that you can put three tables together, take your shoes and socks off and jump over them. They'll be anxious to bet that you can't. Take the bet money in hand then proceed to push the three tables together, take off your shoes and socks and jump over the shoes and socks. Then pick up your stuff and run as fast as you can!\n\nOr (with props the below):\n\nI would go with this: "The winning entry used "Rice Krispies" breakfast cereal in sandwich bags to enclose their egg."\n\n"Our technical support dept received the following question about dropping eggs:\n"I have been searching your web pages trying to find out how I can drop a regular raw egg off a roof without it breaking. Years ago I did this in a physics class, but cannot remember what I did. There is nothing in your web pages regarding this. My 7 yr. old grandson and I would like to do it. Could you help ?"\n\nNormally we can only answer questions related to our products, but we felt this question deserved a reply. To get a broad range of replies we asked the readers of our e-mail newsletter for help. \nSome of the answers we received\nGet an egg-eating snake, give it the egg and wait until the egg is about half way down the snake, then fit the snake with tail flights (cf a dart), then drop said snake plus egg from bridge etc.. The front of the snake will act as a crumple zone, thereby protecting the egg (makes a mess of the snake, but that is outside the parameters of the experiment) Then cut open the snake and remove the egg (snake already deceased, so this is no longer an ethical problem)\n\nIts really quite simple- can't imagine how he's forgotten that he dropped it while it was still inside the hen! Just make sure it's not a hen with clipped wings-specially if the roof is high...... \n\nTheory has it that, given sufficient height, aerodynamics will cause the egg to align itself to land on the blunter of the two ends. The egg is remarkably strong in this orientation. As long as it falls onto a reasonably forgiving surface, a lawn maybe, it won't break - sometimes!\nSafer bet is for Grandad to drop a hard boiled one and palm his stunned Grandson a raw one. \n\nI recently dropped an egg from a roof-top and was able to achieve a drop of some 15 metres without the egg breaking. How? The roof was 16 metres from the ground. It was that last metre that always did the damage.\n\nHold the egg carefully in your hands and jump off the roof. \nPut the egg in the middle of a 1 foot square styrene block. \nTake the roof off, sit it on the ground and roll the egg of the edge of the roof next to the ground. \nImmerse the egg in liquid nitrogen first \nFit the egg with a parachute. \n\nIt's really very simple, the clue is to spread all the force during the retardation phase (landing) on the COMPLETE surface of the egg. In this way, the resulting (vector) forces will be zero. In other words: The forces will "become a pressure" instead. And, since the egg may be compared to a pressure vessel (the surface is curved and can thus take really a lot of pressure before breaking) the egg will not break if you put it in strong bottle filled with water before dropping it!\n\nThis is the classical solution to the problem. I have never worked it out myself but it should work as long as the bottle itself is strong enough (do a test by dropping the bottle filled with just water before doing the test in front of an audience).\n\ncenter the egg in a nylon stocking. \nstretch
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Dude, if you're dropped from a roof I'd think the *last* thing you'd worry about is breaking an egg.  Of course, that's just my opinion; I've never been dropped from a roof.
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It's an egg for sure. Wasn't that a riddle in "The Hobbit"?
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i actually did this in highschool, find a small square box, inside the box you need to put foam rubber(like you would find inside a couch cushion") any craft store will have numerous varieties of this.....line the box with it leaving a space twice the size of the egg. wrap the egg tightly with cotton batting (also available at your local craft store)....make sure that the egg CANNOT MOVE! The foam will absorb the force of impact and the egg should not break. finally, decorate your box as you see fit to make it sale worthy............................good luck!
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A hardboiled egg is healthier than a scrambled one because a scrambled egg is generally egg+milk and fried in butter or oil.\n\nAn egg fried by itself in a nonstick pan without butter is exactly as nutritious as a hardboiled one.
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break the egg, yes. break the cement, i doubt it.
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Sure, except I believe that "upside down" would be two words.  To keep eggs fresh without refrigeration you need to turn them every few days, so sometimes they'd be "right side up"  and sometimes they'd be "upside down".   Just a bit of trivia ...
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Mythbusters did this using a paper cone weighted at the tip so it fell 'point down'.  \n\nOn impact the cone tip will crush dissipating the energy.  Foam (particularly shredded) or other padding around the egg will stop the egg breaking when the cone falls over after impact.\n\nRemember the point is to dissipate the energy not just stop the egg hitting something hard - simple but effective.
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egg... cus jut think about it
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Several things can happen.  Soaked in vinegar for several hours, the shell becomes pliable from decalcification, allowing you to insert it in a narrow necked bottle.\n\nWhen boiling eggs, adding vinegar to the water will coagulate (denature) the albumin if the eggshell cracks, preventing it from creating egg drop soup.\n\nAnd as vinegar has a higher density than watr, eggs will float more easily, expeially if the eggs are stale.
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Good question,but remember it's a nursery rhyme...You have to associate humpty with something that is breakable and non-repairable..Just happened to be an egg,,Stay sweet..
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Idiotic Idea: Spin the eggs. The eggs that spin for a long time, they are the boiled eggs.
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dinosaur egg... is this a real question?