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Monday, December 05, 2005
All the king's horses
You are standing on a hard concrete floor and you have no cushioning to use. How can you drop a raw egg 4 feet without breaking it?
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You are standing on a hard concrete floor and you have no cushioning to use. How can you drop a raw egg 4 feet without breaking it?
A gravity supression ray.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid I don't have one of those... ;-)
ReplyDeletePerhaps you could drop it on top of your soft leather uppers.
ReplyDeleteHold it more than four feet up? It will drop four feet before it smashes on the floor.
ReplyDeleteTrue dat... It's not really the fall that breaks it... it's the sudden stop.
ReplyDeleteKeep it in the hen, then drop the hen.
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid I don't have any soft leather uppers or hens available, either.
ReplyDeleteIf you hold it up more than four feet, you can drop it as bentley92 points out, it will only smash when it reaches the floor.
Its difficult to break cconcrete floor by dropping an egg :)
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