Big_Boy_4005 posted:Well guys, breaking an egg is way better than breaking a leg. Take it from someone who has done both.
I see an omelet in my future.
Back in my college days at the University of Colorado, every year the engineering school held an event, with a number of contests that the students could participate in. There was a mousetrap powered vehicle contest, which used the power from the spring to propel a small lightweight car max distance. If I remember correctly, there was a concrete canoe race. But the one that I liked watching was the egg drop. Students would design containers to hold an egg. They were then dropped from the eighth story of the engineering tower. There were actually a number of winners.
Forty years later, they're still doing it.
In the early days of model rocketry they had a similar competition, where you had to launch an egg on a model rocket, and when the rocket eventually landed (via parachute, it is against rules to allow a nose cone to come down without some sort of parachute or other device), it had to be intact. People got pretty good at it, though the fun kind of came off when commercial firms produced cargo containers for rockets that could do this (some smart alecks of course set the challenge of launching a rocket like 2000 feet, have the cargo container come down on its own without any kind of parachute or other kind of thing to slow it down, and have it land with the egg intact. Never heard if they were successful, would have taken clever design to allow it to drift down like that and work.
