The Incredible Power of Beta Gel

I almost wonder if I’ll be okay if I were to be dropped on that BETA Gel. It probably might have to be thicker…but then again even the egg was nicely intact. AHHgh this curiosity will kill me someday.

haha cool

In elementary school in IOWA we had a yearly contest called the great egg drop. We would have a few days to build a contraption out of random materials that would would carry an egg from a fall off the top of the school without breaking it.

In our case, the contraption had to enclose the egg… But hey, put this stuff in a shoebox with the egg in it and you’ve got a winner!

Quick. Mail the stuff to Iowa. And we’ll start placing bets on the school kids!

Very impressive technology. In earlier days that might have been called witchcraft.. haha.

No magic. Iremember me being a kid throwing an egg from my appartment, seventh flor all the way to the bys station down in a ten centimeter thick snow. Beleve me, to my disapointment the egg didn’t break. I went down to check it. It was as new. I suppose birds in Alaska never realy need stop flying to lay eggs

My guess is that this is more a demonstration of the robustness of an eggshell than of a wonder material. The mat looks about 1cm thick, so the egg will undergo a huge deceleration over that distance, regardless of what material the mat is made out of. The mat, presumably, deforms to apply a braking force evenly across the lower part of the eggshell, rather than concentrated in one small region.
A human dropped form a similar height onto the mat would experience a similarly large deceleration, and would cease to be a living entity.

Nice slight of hand by the magician, errrrr, reporter. He hid the real egg very well