A student at Haifa’s Technion won a contest when he dropped an egg intact to the ground from 100 feet in the air in 3.2 seconds. Yai Solomon packed his raw egg in a jar of apricot jelly, placed it a plastic tube and sealed it with a water balloon. He then shot it to the ground using a homemade rocket engine.
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