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[andrea]

What I would like to do if I had to face this challenge, would be a mini-copter who is just powerful enough to slow down the fall of the egg.

[zchris13]

Jello.  Lots of jello.

[Itnetlolor]

Modifying my balloon idea, what about a water balloon with the egg inside, and have that inside a flour balloon inside an air balloon? If that's somehow possible.

[LegoLord]

It's possible, but you'll need something other than party balloons.  The main problem with those is that they try to compress themselves to the size of a 2D egg.

[Itnetlolor]

Okay then, what about A/B foam? You know, the kind of foam used to make foam sculptures and seal stuff?

Provided you don't have the egg break from the pressure first. Let's not forget, opening up the foam shell to check inside. Again with the balloons, it should keep the shape more durable for impact when the foam sets.

This stuff

Then again, we could have ourselves a poached egg if we use this stuff... Nevermind.

[Tack]

Yo, dude. hollow out the egg, and put an explosive, a primer, and a timed detonator in it. See if you can get it to explode en-route to the ground.

Who cares if you lose the challenge. You will get so many fucking respect points. Even from the teacher.

[Croquantes]

Every year in elementary school we had an egg drop competition. There were soooo many weird designs that looked like they should fail, but they didn't.

I can't remember any...

I think though, that it's best if egg is held in place, and not floating around in paper/feathers or suspended in jello. When the egg hits the ground, the impact will break eggs even in the most delicate of materials.

Try multiple layers of styrofoam, and inbetween each layer having something soft to insulate and disperse the shock of impact.

 :/ Or put the egg in a basket, and attach it to a paper airplane or something.

[Reasonableman]

Idea: shock absorption. Something that'll crumple on impact and absorb the force of the blow. That sort of thing is difficult to reset, though, so there's that...

[eerr]

Roll up a newspaper into a stiff cone, around egg.
Ensure fat end faces away from cone-tip.
Tape cone thoroughly so paper does not shift.

Cut hole with exacto knife, to insert egg-restricting rubberbands.

For hard surfaces, place protective fluff around the egg's spot in the cone, as well as near the egg. If fluff is not allowed, protect with shock-absorbing shaped thick newspaper cones, and crumpled newspaper.

Make Aerodynamic tail(shaped, parachute, kite) for ensuring conetip-first landing.
If newspaper still proves unstable, cut air-holes around area above egg.

Bam, conical solution, alot more complex than I envisioned.

[Itnetlolor]

I guess a fluffed shell of aluminum foil would work well. You know, wrap it loosely in that stuff, and the crumple zones should work well enough. Just be sure it's got plenty of "Bubbles" inside and is a thick enough wrapping to work well enough.

To add to it, use a sheet of paper to act as a parachute.

[Strife26]

Remember, I've got 10cm to work with.

[Osmosis Jones]

Live bird. Wrap the egg in a little bubblewrap, and tie it to a budgie or similar. The bird will fall, because the egg will be too much to carry, but only just, so it will fall very slowly.

Test first, and be sure to adjust the bird size/package weight ratio to find your desired fall rate.

[Strife26]

Right now, I'm going to be putting my bets on a primarily rubber cement device. I was lucky enough to find a little metal cube made for holding candles that's about 10 cm cubed. I've put a roughly conical insert of foil in there, with several washers in the bottom. There's a cm of cement drying right now, the egg and the rest will go in tomorrow morning.

In other news, I finished off one bottle of cement tonight. I placed an egg that I had broken in experimentation, ran a line of cement on a piece of paper and lit it off. Extremely entertaining fire. Once tomorrow, we'll see how cooked the egg is.

[Duke 2.0]

"Alright class, today we shall add a twist to the challenge. Now not only does the egg have to survive the fall, but it needs to survive while on fire."

[Strife26]

Which I would easily win.