I WIN!

Posted by Firebird on June 6, 2006, 2:19 a.m.

YEAH! It's nearly the end of the school term. Oh, and it's the 6th of the 6th 06 here in Australia. I don't believe in any of that crap though.

And the recent activity bar is sexist. I checked it! I tested it (don't ask, and no)! It should say 'on their' instead of 'on his'.

For science, I have to make a parachute that goes down really slow and can drop from a height and stop a hard-boiled egg from smashing. I was thinking something like a plastic bag (big one) for the chute and a foam shell for protecting the egg. Any ideas on making this better? It has to be really slow on going down.

Comments

Tyranic-Moron 18 years, 5 months ago

How about little fans trying to blow it upwards? That would slow it down :D. Other than that, your current idea seems ok, I'd just go with that.

Adventus 18 years, 5 months ago

Make sure you have a hole in the top of the bag to let some air out, so it falls straight instead of side to side

Malaika 18 years, 5 months ago

ooh! I did that assignment too. Its one of those NSW thingies. The best way we found to do it was to give the egg a "rollcage" as it were - except we could only use like 5 sheets of newspaper and sticky tape to make it. We made an outer shell, then lined it with rolled newspaper so that when it hit the ground, the egg had a soft cushion. Obviously we added a parachute too, but it didn't work all that well… It didn't esplode though [^^] and yes, the bar should say "their page", or it could be based on the gender in the preferences, with "their" being for no comment.

Firebird 18 years, 5 months ago

I tried the gender preferences to, but Melee *told* me (when Melee tells you something, it usually isn't… that dependable) that it based it off the gender prefs. I tested it with the gender prefs changed, hence "don't ask, and no"

NSW? But I live in Victoria… not New South Wales.

DesertFox 18 years, 5 months ago

I had to do that egg thing too. Only, we dropped it from 20 feet and could only use matches to protect it. Som actually survived. One caught fire.