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Re: Egg Drop Contest

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Originally Posted by Rickertsen2
I would try bubble wrap in a very rigid shell(metal), wrapped in yet more padding. A freind of mine did this once b4. If i can remember, i will ask him what he did. Can it deploy? If so, a parachute might be a very good way to go. You can cut a rather effective once out of garbage bag material.
Parachute could work, or you could do what my friend did, he wrapped it up in gardening foam. I think it could of gone another 10 feet up.
I heard my physics teacher would give your apparatus a starting velocity if you were a trouble maker. I've also heard he tosses another egg at the same time as tossing your apparatus to make it look like it fell out, lol.
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