by sharpshooter » Thu May 25, 2006 11:26 pm
I did mine in eighth grade. It was very simple, yet worked amazingly well. There was a tube of straws around the egg. Then I made a box around that, connected by eight straws (one to each corner of the box). These eight straws were meant to beand on impact, and did so very well. The idea worked so well, that even after the initial 20 and 30 ft drops it was still intact. Wanting to see how far i could push it, I took it outside and and chucked it up in the air as high as I possibly could. Nothing. I then slammed it on the ground. Again, nothing. I would have shot it out of some large barreled spudgun, but i did not know about those marvolous creations then. To this day, the egg/straw thingy is sitting on top of my science teachers cabinats.