have your eggs standing on end

Tue Sep 23, 2003 11:18 am by kimk

Explanation: Today is the autumnal equinox -- should eggs be able to stand on end? This long-standing myth loses much of its mystique after a demonstration that eggs can be made to stand on end during any day of the year. Pictured above, Dr. Phil Plait (Sonoma St. U.) acting as the Bad Astronomer balanced three raw eggs on end in late October 1998. Later, more modestly, his wife balanced five more. The little-appreciated fact that most eggshells have small bumps on them makes this seemingly impossible task achievable. Although, during an equinox, every place on Earth experiences an equal length day and night (12 hours each), this fact has no practical effect on egg stability.

Credit: Phil Plait (Bad Astronomy)

p.s. i don't quite get the dent in the eggs. king arthur or someone balanced the egg by using his sword hilt to smash a bit of it flat didn' he?
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Mustie Edit: Fixed it for ya kimk.

Edited by - Mustang on 23-09-2003 14:10:31

Tue Sep 23, 2003 11:27 am by Nickless V2

Typo in the link Kimk.

anyway, I always thought it was Columbus who put the egg up.

The dent part is about the fact that an eggshell isn't completely smooth but has small dents in it. Like a golfball, but smaller. imho

(and here I thought it was another cool looking nebula, major bummer

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Edited by - Nickless on 23-09-2003 12:31:23

Wed Sep 24, 2003 3:44 am by Jim Groovester

Do you mean that even an untalented and uncoordinated person like me can balance eggs on end??????

SWEEET!!!!

I read this same thing in some science magazine. It said also that asteroids aren't all clustered together like in games and movies.

Wed Sep 24, 2003 11:42 am by Nickless V2

An astroid would most likely not be static. Due to gavity, colisions with other astroids and maybe some other stuff, the astroids move, and because they don't slowdown, they just keep on movin'.

The only place astroids are kinda clustered, is in astroidbelts, but those astroids aren't static as well.

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Edit: I'm responding ahead, The pic works for me

Edited by - Nickless on 24-09-2003 13:30:35

Wed Sep 24, 2003 12:18 pm by kimk

strangely it doesn't work no more. mustie must have mustified the link.

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