how do you make a safe drop for an egg?
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hard boil your egg.  :)
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The size of the egg can be measured by two ways.\n\n1. By its breadth and width : Use any measuring scale with milli meter units to measure\n\n2. By its volume: Drop it in a filled water container and measure the displaced water in milliliter.
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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 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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you need a parachute to slow down the egg.  wrap the egg in some kinda of foam, secure it with some tape.  attach the parachute to the rest and drop!
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PLEASE TRY A SAFER METHOD!!
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Wrap in bubble wrap and put in a tube or a box thats how i did it.  it survived a 30 foot fall.
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First off, cardboard works well if you're looking for low-cost but durable casing.  Use duct tape and make a small container that will hold your egg.  Making a prism (three-sided box) and taping more cardboard on the ends works quite well.\n\nNext you need some kind of padding on the inside, something that will take the shock of the hit but not send it through to the egg itself.  If you can find any of that bubble packing wrap (especially the big kind), that works well.\n\nI've done this twice, and the second time we used rubber bands and tape and made a sling for the egg so it was suspended in all directions inside the box.  You need padding as well, but this helps the egg not to hit the sides.\n\nGood luck :)
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Father Christmas brings mine,in august on a hefferlimp { it's got a poorly flipper }..\nIn England we all get easter eggs { Chocolate,all sizes } in Holland they hide hard boiled eggs and you have to find them.. It can get a bit messy,stinky if you live on a farm..
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Build a mini trebuchet!  Build a mini trebuchet!\nGive egg LOTS and LOTS of padding!
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Throw raw eggs out the window?
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Hello Maggie,\n\nDon't worry: the egg drop project is a classic for science teachers, and, therefore, there are a lot of solutions out there on the web. Check out the following site, you'll find all the answers you need, and more: http://users.adelphia.net/~jberger5/eggdrop.html
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That depend upon what do you mean by float.  If you want the top of the egg to just barely stick out of the water solution then you only need to make the water slightly more dense than the egg.\nThe density of both the yolk and white is about 1.035, but this is only 89% of the total.  Most of the remaining 11% is the shell (which is mostly calcium carbonate) with a density of about 2.8 grams per cubic centimeter.  If you do the math and then convert into regular measurements, it comes out about 4 tablespoons per cup of water to get an egg to just float.  Adding more salt will make the egg float higher.  The upper limit of salt addition seems to be about 7 ½ or 8 tablespoons (no more salt will dissolve unless you heat the water).
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You description does not match your question, unless of course the question is a metaphore.  Maybe add some more detail to this question?\n\n\nHard-cooked eggs (eggs cooked in the shell in water) should never be boiled - simmer them in water. If boiled or cooked too long, the protein toughens or becomes rubbery and a greenish or purplish ring forms around the yolk. \n\nTo correctly cook the eggs, place them in a single layer in a pan with enough cold water to cover them completely. Bring the water to a boil, remove from heat, cover tightly with a lid, and allow to remain in the water approximately 15 to 20 minutes. Then place under running, cold water to cool quickly. This way of cooking is also known as "coddling." It does not toughen the whites as boiling does. \n\nSoft-cooked eggs:   3 to 5 minutes \nMedium-cooked eggs:  7 to 8 minutes \nHard-cooked eggs:  approximately 15 to 20 minutes \n\n\nStorage: Hard-cooked eggs in the shell can be refrigerated up to one week. Out of the shell, they should be used immediately.\n\nMicrowave: You cannot hard-cook eggs in a microwave (they'll explode), but if you find after peeling an egg that it is not quite done at the center, pierce it once or twice with a fork, set microwave to medium power and cook the egg for 10 to 20 seconds before checking for doneness.\n\n\nTips: To tell if an egg is hard-cooked or raw, place the egg on its side and spin it evenly on a level surface; if it wobbles, it is raw.\n\n\nHow To Peel Hard-Cooked Eggs Easily: \n\nThis is what I do:\n\nI place the eggs in the pan they were cooked in and add cold water. \n  \n\nI then crack the eggs under water (this seems to help loosen the membrane under the shell). \n  \n\nStart peeling at the larger end, where the air pocket is, and remove the shell under running water to make the shelling easier. You must get a hold of the membrane under the shell when you remove the shell. Very fresh eggs are harder to peel. The fresher the eggs, the more the shell membranes cling tenaciously to the shells.
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Find yourself a box of the correct dimensions.\n\nWrap your egg in bubble wrap--the kind with the bubbles that are about as big as a quarter.  Wrap it in as much as you can use without going over the weight limit.  The egg should be in the center of the bubble wrap.\n\nThe bubblewrap should prevent the egg from breaking.  The key is to get the egg in the center so it has equal bubblewrap around it.\n\nIf you can find a styrafoam box that is 7cm x 7cm x 7cm, that would be the best as it would easily meet your 400cc requirement and no side longer than 20cm!  Plus, styrafoam will absorb shock!
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You don't say how far the egg will drop.\n\nI would make a cradle for the egg out of straws, about half a dozen taped together at the ends, the egg just held in the center by friction.\n\nThen I would construct a "cage" about one straw long on each of its sides (six sides for a cube) Use glue to attach straws together and only leave about an inch between straws. Leave one side open until you put the cradle with the egg inside, attached to the center of two sides of the cage. then finish the last side. Glue diagonal half-straws across each corner (three for each corner). That would be my best off the top of the head solution.  A second cage could be built around the first. You didn't mention any size restrictions. The bigger the structure is, compared to its weight, the more wind resistance it will have, and the slower it will fall.  The idea is to let the cage absorb the force of the impact but insulate the egg from it as much as you can.\n\nGood luck.
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wash your hair in kerosene then lots of shampoo. hand pick out the eggs strand by stand