/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.2308854]

local pub is doing an egg drop contest, winners receive a 50 buck 'gift card' they thrown in an extra 10 if the design is alcohol related the roof is 10-sh feet, maybe more.

I don't give two shits about the extra 10, but I want to win.

any ideas? would putting an egg inside a can padded with pillow stuffing work fine?

[Anonymous No.2308865]

Do the stuffed can, but see if you can add a parachute of some kind or anything to increase air resistance.

[Anonymous No.2308869]

my other idea was letting a snake devour the egg and halfway through the process killing the snake using a sewing needle, then dropping the snake head-first into the ground, his head acting as a crumple to reduce the amount of force from the impact, then cutting him open and taking out the unbroken egg.

[Anonymous No.2308878]

>>2308865
I don't think we can do anything like that, and it's gotta be able to fit in an 8-by-8-by-8 inch box too, now that i have the sheet right in front of me

if you think the can idea is fine though, that's good

[Michio Kaku No.2308874]

>>2308854
Create an anti-gravity device using graviton technology and the 11th dimension to suspend the egg!

[Anonymous No.2308880]

>>2308874
you know i would do that but im just a drunk so

[Anonymous No.2308890]

>>2308869
Snake spines aren't rigid enough to significantly cushion the rest of the body before impact. Also, that's really morbid and creepy.

[Anonymous No.2308895]

Put the egg in concrete.

[Anonymous No.2308899]

you could use the stuffed can idea from
>>2308865
along with some cans or just strips of aluminium (from the cans) cut so they will crumple upon impact if the can is surrounded by crumple zones it should provide enough protection but you could do some experiments

[Anonymous No.2308903]

>>2308895
you've got to be able to touch at least half the egg.

[Anonymous No.2308909]

>>2308899
makes sense, would i put these scraps at the bottom of the can, followed by a layer of cushion, followed by the egg?

[Anonymous No.2308914]

>>2308903
So use some toilet paper tubes to expose 50% of the surface area through the concrete box you'll make. Trust me. I did this from 30 ft on to grass and the egg was fine.

[Anonymous No.2308931]

>>2308914
so, you want me to make a concrete cube, and then have a circular tube the size of the egg going into the center where the egg will go?

like this?

[Anonymous No.2308942]

>>2308931
wouldn't the force of the egg hitting the bottom of the cement tube be strong enough to break the egg? or is your idea that the tube itself is the perfect size and thus, the egg won't have the room to break/shatter because it fits snuggly?

would it be worth putting some cushioning in the tube anyway?

this is all assuming i understand what your idea is

[Anonymous No.2308945]

>>2308931
Basically. You'll actually cast the egg in the concrete. Put the large end up and you'll meet the 50% area requirement.

[Anonymous No.2308999]

>>2308945
Alright, Ill try that. Thanks.

[Anonymous No.2309006]

>>2308854

yeah stuffed beer can with rigid helicopter wings.

I used a very similar design, sans beer cans, and not only did the egg survive it landed softly (something no other student could claim).

sorry for the crude design... I just skecthed it up super quick

[Anonymous No.2309020]

So operation keggdrop?

Sounds cool, bro. Get the blueprints ready!

[Anonymous No.2309039]

>>2309006

oh forgot to mention the material for the wing can be any type of sturdy paper or cardboard or more popsicle sticks... it doesn't matter that much

[pascal !n5Z3VuZapw No.2309064]

put egg inside bottle of alcohol. let sit for 3 weeks until egg is soft/rubbery.

drop entire bottle. bottle will crack, egg will be fine. or put alcohol/egg in plastic jar. both will be fine.

[Anonymous No.2309091]

>>2309006
>>2309039
Really cool design, but I don't believe we can use things like wings/parachutes/helicopter blades.

They can't be blatant air-resistance items.

>>2309064

they supply the eggs at the pub the day of.

[Anonymous No.2309129]

Playdough is a great cushion.

[Anonymous No.2309134]

>>2309129
thank you for the idea!

[Anonymous No.2309141]

>>2308854
>egg drop contest

I remember being a freshman in highschool, enjoy it OP

[Anonymous No.2309147]

>>2309141
Pretty sure Egg Drop is a college thing.

[Anonymous No.2309163]

>>2309147
I did it in the first grade, would love to try again though.

[Anonymous No.2309168]

>>2308854
>> alcohol related want use pillows
Pillows? Passive impact modulation? Pfffff. Don't be a pussy!

Make an alcohol/LOX(nitrous oxide is fine too) rocket to decelerate the egg.

For bonus points, you could use vodka for the alcohol.

pussy mode: use store bought estes rocket engines
semi-lunatic mode: make your own solid rocket engine(propellant grains will self propel should they ignite)

[Anonymous No.2309171]

>>2309141
umad?

he mad

[Anonymous No.2309172]

>>2308854
OP is this a science pub?

[pascal !n5Z3VuZapw No.2309183]

tie a 9'10" string around the egg. drop the egg, then drop the string, the egg will only need to fall 2"

[Anonymous No.2309190]

lol.. a 10 foot egg drop? I remember back in middle school my grade had a 100ft egg drop and most of the teams won. This shit is easy, just use a bunch of padding

[Anonymous No.2309194]

>>2309172
That would be pretty awesome.

[Anonymous No.2309201]

>>2309190
lol that's nothing, I remember in kindergarten we had a 5,000 foot egg-drop from an airplane

[Anonymous No.2309204]

>>2309171
u sad?

he sad

[Anonymous No.2309215]

>>2309201

lol that's nothing, I remember in pre-k we had a 500,000 foot egg-drop from a rocket ship.

We had to build own propulsion systems to have our eggs enter into the earth's gravitation pull.

[Anonymous No.2309229]

>>2309215

lol that's nothing, I remember in daycare we had a 78,341,212km egg-"drop" from Mars

we had to build a fucking rocket and most kids just sat there and ate glue

[Anonymous No.2309258]

>>2309229 lol

thanks for reminding me why I still visit this board

[Anonymous No.2309270]

In high school we couldn't build anything around the egg, but had to design a landing pad. Roll 12 sheets of paper into cylinders and tape them into a 4 by 3 rectangular prism. The egg will bounce slightly when landed but won't break.

<--- Crude pic of design

[Anonymous No.2309300]

>>2309229

lol that's nothing, I remember in daycare we had a interdimensional egg drop.

we had to validate string theory just to master worm hole manipulation.

[Alpharius No.2309309]

OP, beer can, remove the rim, put the egg inside the bottom half of a larger plastic egg (that is itself slightly smaller than the beer can. The booze will act as a much better cushion.
Then, get your 8 inch cubed box and a shit ton of rubber bands.
Suspend the beer can inside that box using the rubber bands.

Your egg will be perfectly fine.

[Anonymous No.2309334]

>>2309309
> liquid
> not compressable
> a better cushion
maybe better than concrete.

[Anonymous No.2309349]

>>2308874
Fuck off, Kaku

[Alpharius No.2309372]

>>2309334
It's not compressable, but it has a place to go. Out. The beer can would be without a lid, therefore the inertia of the egg and it's boat would transfer into the liquid, which would force the liquid out of the top, absorbing the energy. It has the advantage of not become harder as it compresses (as it does not compress). Unlike, say, cotton, which may be nice and fluffy before you transfer some energy to it, but once it compresses a little bit, it's done, and the egg will break.

[Alpharius No.2309385]

Alternatively OP, you could create an egg-shaped holder out of magnets, with the negative side facing outward, and then have a box with the negative side facing inward. The egg would be completely suspended in mid-air and thus wouldn't ever crack because it would never touch the ground!

[Anonymous No.2309389]

>>2309091

here's my new design. the only thing I didn't note in the drawing is that you need to weight the cans at the bottom so it falls rightside up

[Anonymous No.2309396]

>>2309385

But that's not alcohol related.

[Anonymous No.2309400]

get a water bottle ( one of those unbreakable plastic ones) fill half with honey, add egg, fill other half with honey. Nothing will fucking touch that egg, i guarantee it. Mine survived a thirty foot drop.

[Anonymous No.2309403]

>>2309385

I actually tried this once, in a different type of egg thing.

If you know about CO2 cars, well we had to design a CO2 car that could carry an egg to the finish without cracking.

If I had implemented my design correctly it would have actually worked.

[Anonymous No.2309418]

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[Anonymous No.2309421]

Easiest way is to fill a small container with sand and bury the egg half way. The sand will absorb the shock upon impact.

[Anonymous No.2309432]

seriously get the bubble wrap. everyone will scoff at your silly ass but youll win, provided no one with any knowledge of physics shows up. all the complicated shit in this thread is not worth the time or effort or money. bubble wrap is cheap and can be acquired at a UPS store or a fedexexpress or all sorts of other places

[Anonymous No.2309437]

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[Anonymous No.2309454]

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[Anonymous No.2309464]

>>2309454
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[Anonymous No.2309471]

>>2309464
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[Anonymous No.2309488]

[Anonymous No.2309496]

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[Anonymous No.2309501]

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[Anonymous No.2309511]

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[Anonymous No.2309524]

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[Anonymous No.2309528]

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[Anonymous No.2309533]

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[Anonymous No.2309541]

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[Anonymous No.2309540]

Thanks for effectively ruining this thread you fucking aspie.

[Anonymous No.2309551]

>>2309540
youre just jealous because you couldnt think of something so simple to solve such complex problems such as how to drop an egg from a high spot safely. and its not ruined you fucking moron its the solution to the problem. THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION! also fuck off you cunt

[Anonymous No.2309553]

Sup /sci/, I was thinking today about my thinking voice inside my head. The ancient Egyptians believed that your heart did your thinking. Did the Egyptians have voices in their head, or voices in their chest? Basically, is the thinking voice in your head there because that's how humans are built, or can you teach someone to think from a different part of their body? I've been trying to do a math problem from my thigh forever now, but I just can't get it to think.

[Anonymous No.2309557]

>>2309553
I can imagine a voice anywhere, I think its a cultural thing.

[Anonymous No.2309558]

Put a bunch of rubber bands around the egg. Acquire drinking straws. Put through rubber bands so a starburst pattern comes up. drop spiky thing with egg inside. No breakage.

[Anonymous No.2309595]

You don't even know

I got the best grade on mine by baking two small raisin bunt cakes, carving out a hole in the sides of each slightly larger than half an egg, smearing icing over all the insides and putting the egg inside then putting the two pieces together.

Got extra credit because it tasted good, too.

[Anonymous No.2309602]

>>2309595
damn, you must be a happy fat bastard.

[Anonymous No.2309617]

bubble wrap. You could wrap an egg in bubble wrap and punt it 70 meterss and it would be fine.

[Anonymous No.2309646]

I remember doing this in the 5th grade.

All you have to do is fill the can with potting soil, and put the egg in the middle. Make sure you tightly compact it though, so it cannot move. I did this in the 5th grade off of a 30 foot roof and it didn't have a scratch. Although, I used a cardboard box.

Good luck!