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Egg race!

  • 17-10-2009 02:09PM
    #1
    darth darragh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭


    Hey physicists

    Just a quick question, how were the last egg races won...the ones from the last couple of years. Im just interested, i heard they were smart!


Comments

  • #2
    ArthurDent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 915 ✭✭✭ArthurDent


    omg you've just brought me back 20 years :D to when Des Hickey used to run these in Gleeson Hall

    really enjoyed them - now I feel so old :eek::eek:


  • #3
    Frankiestylee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,325 ✭✭✭Frankiestylee


    What do these involve?


  • #4
    darth darragh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭darth darragh


    Getting an egg from one spot to another, usually on a balcony and make the egg reach the bottom the slowest. without using gas compression or motors or fuels! its all physics..example parachutes!


  • #5
    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    More homemade missiles near the smoking area please.


  • #6
    Dufresne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 201 ✭✭Dufresne


    There was one many years ago when the object of the exercise was to cross the swimming pool in the fastest time - with points going for straight lines etc. There were a good few entries and competition was fine until a group of apprentices decided to enter. They stretched a condom across the pool with the egg inside and let go to complete the crossing in about 1 second - which was about 30 seconds ahead of everyone else.

    They were disqualified on a technicality but it was a howl. Bear in mind at this time you had to go up North to buy condoms - for many it was their first time to see one. Some of the staff didn't know where to look - scandalous - but hilarious


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