Idea #6 Drop chicken off bridge and have it lay an egg at the bottom.

So what your telling me is that I can cover myself in straws, and jump out of a plane? Aight dope

the thing i like about mark rober is his ability to explain complex concepts in simple terms. like if i were to explain the whole energy thing he was talking about i wouldve gone into work-energy theorem, equations, and integration, but he just manages to basically explain the jist of it in a simple manner that even a child can understand

See, when we did this in year 9 (10th grade), we had a whole school day dedicated to this experiment, but they made it like a legitimate NASA project. We had limited funding (they gave us coloured counters that indicated money). These were used to buy materials when we were there (so already, your options were limited to what they provided, and how much your group could afford). Then we had to assemble it there and then (with a time limit!) and do the drop in the afternoon. It was great fun, but jeez was it a challenge….

Just surround your egg with a bunch of other eggs. If one of them survive, say that egg was your original egg.

“So my favorite class in high school was physics” *BIG SURPRSE THERE*

I did this in kindergarten, my dad was a welder, he welded a box holding the egg. It never broke. Legend. Love you pops.

I'm a second year computer science student. You are absolutely amazing. The explanations are made so easy even a layman can understand the basics of energy and kinematics. You way of explaining rocks.

physics teacher: takes 3 days to explain potential energy Mark Rober: look block go high and low

All you need is a Purple mattress around the egg

The competition I did as a kid had an "only supplied materials from any one of these bins", and "has to fit in this box" (which was like 4x4x4; insanely small) for a second floor drop onto pavement. Wrapped the egg in thread, then thin cloth, then yarn, then progressively softer materials, before lining the box with low density foam. slowed the moment of impact so it worked like a charm.

You should honestly be a teacher, the way that you explain the things just makes me understand it so well. Great work Mark

What a power move it would be to just show up with a drone and say "It's not against the rules."

Lol in school, i was lazy and forgot the make my egg contraption.. so last minute I ran into the bathroom grabbed a little box, put some paper towel in and stuck the egg in the middle.. it worked.. the teacher was mad because he could clearly see I gave zero fucks about the project.

Can't believe it's been 6 years since this came out. Still gold.

At my school they did allow parachutes, but they had to be less than 30cm across So I used 4 of them and a straw contraption similar to what you made Technically not a violation of the rules, so I won on a technicality

Mark Rober prevents egg from falling *How to basic left the chat*

my competition has a rule that we can't do anything from your video

While the quality of your videos have DRAMATICALLY CHANGED … your AWESOMENESS HAS NOT!! Stay humble and amazing!

bro really took this to the next level after 7 years. respect.

bruh, i just had a whole lesson on energy, and this is literally the whole month of classes in less than ten minutes

just tape the egg on a cat's back cause cats always land on their feet

i actually used one of the softer type of colanders and glued two together. I paired that with a piece of foam i got from home depot It worked well when our music teacher chucked it off of a two story building onto cement

Just used your explanation for the staw pyramid design to explain my newspaper pyramid design. Got perfect. Thank you.

before seeing this video, I have been in two egg drop comps. one for school, one at a fair. at the school one, I used an RC plane... kids thought it was unfair, and I was kinda an unpopular nerd, so got disqualified. at the fair one, used a similar straw method, but somebody won with an rc plane. I kinda got really annoyed.

In my school we had a competition to throw something out the window that would take the longest time to fall. I just went with a piece of A4 paper and won ;D

To think this was my first vid watching Mark rober and look how far he's come, we are so proud of you

I went with the parachute approach. Once I did a heavily cushioned version of my parachute pod, which surprised me when it also worked. Also, I used some of that memory foam like "egg crate" material.

Dude - how many times did you have to climb over that railing? That ledge looked so sketch

Idea 5: *Feeds egg to child and throws child off bridge*

hey Mark! for the past hour ive been so amazed of your methods and ideas! i have an egg drop challenge tomorrow, so just wanted to say i appreciated you for making this video

Props to the cameraman for going back in time to film these cool shots of the egg building itself

If this guy was my physics teacher then i would actually be interested in school

Do what I did 25 years ago....Procrastinate until the night before, then realize you have to get it done, realize there is left over pizza in the fridge, finish the pizza, wrap the smallest egg you have (smaller egg, slightly thicker shell) in paper towels, stick in the box and take it to the the roof and see if it made that drope. It did. Take it the next morning. Every kid will think you brought pizza for them. Mine was the only one that made it from the top of the stadium intact. It floated down. I got a 140 with extra credit since I used aerodynamics rather than cushioning.

At my school I noticed that the teacher never checked if they were normal eggs because he bought them to school so I bought the same brand boiled on and swapped his out with my boiled one still hold the school record 56metres I’ve held the record for 9 years 😂

I had a really crappy physics teacher. Yet these videos kept me interested in science growing up.

1:39 how did Mark just teach me in 20 seconds what my 5th grade teacher taught me in 2 weeks

I love how he casually just took 20 Wendy straws

I show my classes this video every year when we do the egg drop lesson. Thanks Mark!

I’m doing an egg drop project in my science class this week. And this is everything we’re learning. Thank you for a quick explanation of this. If you could respond that would be great. Thank you!

Ok, so here’s an idea, enchant the egg with fall resistance 20 or higher

Great. Now my teacher says "none of mark rober's ideas"

I greatly enjoy and appreciate your explanations as to why these methods work.

I once took part in a egg drop challenge. We didn't have a lot to work with, so I wrapped the egg in a piece of soft foam, and placed two plastic cups around this to hold the egg in place. I wanted it to keep it vertically oriented, so I had a small piece of aluminum foil in the bottom of one cup and some pipe cleaners through the bottom of the other cup. My goal was to distribute the force of impact around the egg and give the egg some room to move to more slowly brake the fall it's fall (change in velocity over change in time). The cups shattered, but the egg survived a three-storey drop.

Teacher: Everyone will fail my egg drop test! Student: haha, drone go brrrrrrrr

You should do a vid on how to have the upper hand in tug of war without having shear muscle

After 6 years of watching this and waiting for physics class so I can do this I’m finally here. I promise you I won’t fail you

Car crumple zones are very similar, engineered weak points to keep the human (egg) from breaking. Great show 👍🏼

Mark Rober: quits NASA* Also Mark Rober: makes a full video about how to prevent an egg from cracking*

When I did this in middle school, I cut a hole in a sponge and put the egg in. Put a big sponge on either side of the hole and taped it together. Easy peasy.

Concise and precise instructions. Great role model for my son. Thank you.

I had to do this with a team as part of the orientation at a new job once. Half way through the design time, they shuffled the teams. After the competition, the people running orientation were like, "Was it hard when we mixed things up? Did you have to lEaRn To AdApT? *HMMM???* " We were like, "Oml yes, can we just do something worthwhile now?" It made as much sense and was as impactful as the "Prison Mike" episode of The Office

*5 years later:* still using same music

So the ideal design is an egg in a popcorn ball, surrounded by balloons with straws around it, all carried by a parachute or a few balloons

I watch this guy each now and then and the fact that my teacher also recommends his videos now, is insane.

For my egg drop my teacher tried to closely resemble real life so we had a budget and we have limited supplies. However this was helpful for ideas!

Hey Mark, I just had an egg drop challenge today and I used the "straw man" method and I won! I immediately thought of your video when I heard egg drop challenge, thank you so much Mark!

Mars Rover Mark Rober Coincidence I think not!

I remember using a pringles can and suspending the egg using rubber bands inside the can and then used a slab of concrete in a bathtub kiddie cup to weigh it on one end so it’d always land straight up and the egg survived. My dad and I came up with the design and we were very happy to win the “most technical” award for that drop :P

I made one in middle school that had the egg suspended by rubber bands inside a ball or something. It worked really well!

Lol I tried the straw one and I got 1st place on the egg drop, thank u so much😂

Took our teacher 10 1 hour classes just to explain energies and my mans over here just taught me clearly in like 9 minutes 😭

Mine was pretty simple. I put plastic wrap on egg (so I don't have to worry about cleaning up if it cracks) before putting it into a ziploc bag filled with nothing but popcorns. My physic teacher took my and classmates' projects to third floor before dropping them one by one. Mine survives, no crack. Out of all, my project weighed heaviest but held number one shortest time from third floor to concrete ground. Thanks to grading formula with timing being heavily favored compared to weight, I got A+. Yay, fun project.

Cant you just be a science teacher, your probraly one of the best info guy I know.

24 million people just got educated on how to drop an egg correctly

Teacher: today we are going to do the egg drop test Kid who watches Mark Rober: I am 4 parallel universes ahead of you

Can we just appreciate how Genius Mark Rober is.

You've helped me remember how I made my high school project for a college essay. Thanks a lot!

Just realised his son is in this video after watching his most recent video. If you haven't seen it yet, make sure you do as it's important!

Sad part is that I found this video AFTER i did this at school

I really did not understand what you were saying at first but then you went over it with words and examples we all understand making me instantly understand, Amazing work! keep up the wonderful content

Last year in 4th grade we had an egg drop and my friends and I did a lot of planing and prototypes and our egg didn’t crack. Now I switched schools and I do a lot mar science and hands on related thing. For example me and my friend have to come up with a problem and build something to solve the problem. We watch your videos all the time at school and the whole class loves them.

This reminded me if a challenge my school had last year, where we had fo mail a pringle to our superintendent, without it getting damaged, while using the least weight and mass, and so that theoretically, it would be edible upon delivery. Me and my friend ended up modifying a ziplock to the shape of the pringle, cut a dozen egg carton down to a third of the size, (4 eggs) and then creating a platform within the carton for the pringle to rest. We decided against a lot of packing peanuts and what not due to concern that rather than compressing like with an egg, it would just break the chip. We forgot about it until the last day of school when our gifted coordinator handed us the certificate saying that we won. I just found it interesting that 60% if our time in class for work was planning, and that taught me that engineering required a lot of work, but is seriously fun. Personally I hope I get to do more challenges like that and the egg drop in the future.

I remember doing this back in elementary school! If I recall correctly, I put my egg in a box with packing peanuts and then put a water balloon on the bottom of the box. The fact that the balloon was filled with water would weight it down so it wouldn't turn around, and it would help cushion it like an airbag, I figured. Also, I was an elementary schooler, and for our competition we got to go up on the roof of the school and drop our eggs off, and I basically just thought it would be awesome to drop a water balloon off the roof of the school and the egg thing was a great excuse to do just that. :D I did indeed drop my water balloon creation off the school, and the balloon burst gloriously, and it was wonderful! Haha, I was such a mischievous little child. Second cool story about that contest: my mom told me before the competition that if I got my egg to survive, we could use it to make a cake together, and I was so excited about baking a cake with it that I was extra-determined to get my egg to make it. I made the mechanism described above, and it actually worked. Once I was back down off the roof, I ran and opened up my box, and there sat my egg, unscathed. I was so excited and happy, I held the egg up over my head and began to run around with it, like, "my egg survived! My egg survived!" But, though I did not yet know the word 'hubris', it was a relevant one. During my victorious promenade, I tripped on a crack in the sidewalk and fell, skinning my knees and smashing my now-unprotected egg to pieces. My egg could survive the fall from the school, but it could not survive my pride. My mom and I made a cake together anyways, though, but it would've been cooler to use an egg that had fallen from my school's roof atop a water balloon. Well, I should've known what they say about pride and falls.

As a parents of a couple children that your creative and inquisitive nature strongly remind me of. I can only imagine that your parents were the most engaged and patient parent around or they lived on the edge of a nervous break downs. Or both. 😉 Climbing over the guardrail 😳.

Some time (very long time ago) in middle school, My teacher said we were doing an egg drop and this was the video i ran to after school, long story short, I won!

Just throw a pregnant chicken 1) The flapping slows the fall down 2) There is cushioning to help it

I know a good egg protector, just cut up a purple mattress

Now I do know that if you can’t use paper and sticky things, then use popcorn in a plastic bag or something is the best option. Tho all depends on the impact hopefully the egg won’t hit the ground first- other then that thanks Mark Rober you just got me and my partner a 100% on our project! 😎

One time when i was like 10, I remember doing an egg drop, and i just wrapped my egg in clear tape. The air pockets between each layer acted as a shock barrier. To my surprise it worked perfectly.

Physics teacher: noo you can't just explain potential energy in a minute you have to take 3 days to explain it Mark: haha blocks go brrr

*random guy looks over bridge* “WERE JUST TESTING EGGS CARRY ON”

Mark, you make learning physics fun which is awesome because then i can gain more knowledge for life.

Mine surprisingly works back in 8th grade we put the egg in a small thin clear plastic closable bowl with soft items like package peanuts and cotton balls i think and with a parachute that didn't deploy until the egg was like half way down and the egg survived I might take physics class to do that again btw there was some casualties so I'm proud of our creation

I remember we did this at a summer camp and we had to throw it over a wall, I put mine in a box and taped it up so much you'd have to stab the box just to start the cutting process, so when mine landed everyone was like "I heard it crack" but I just said "the egg is neither dead, nor alive. And it is both alive and dead at the same time" #SchrödingersEgg Then when they cut it open I blamed the person cutting the box and said "He stabbed my egg, I want a redo".

What others are doing during quarantine: productive stuff Me: learning how to drop an egg correctly

I wish u were my teacher. U kept me excited to learn in hard times. Thank you so much Mark!

So surreal to finally see the full William Osman intro.

Are you telling me that you had the chance to say “let’s get cracking” and you didn’t say that??

Mark Rober was HowTo Basic all along

I finally understand the physics in an egg breaking! Thanks mark

I used this for a class project and it worked amazingly!!!! thanks mark!

Assignment 5 years in the future Teacher: “we are going to be doing egg drop contest” Mark Rober’s son: “my time has come”

Step 1: Just boil it Step 2: wrap foam around it Step 3: yeet it of the bridge

6 years later, and you have not changed at all!

I know this is 6 years ago but this is why mark is my fav yt I needed this bc i had one of those competitions coming up

My school has a point system. The less points you have the better. Straws: 0 points Tape: 0 points String: 0 points A cotton ball: 1 points Balloon: 1 points Cups: 2 points Parachute: 5 points Anything from home: 10 points each stack. I did the straw man method and got 0 points, people thought I hacked the egg and modified it.

Who else’s is watching this because they needed it for a project *Because I’m not...*

What a cool vid. My son has this project for homework, you've given me so many ideas - thank you.

I made a pyramid with fm radio antenna tubes. Rubber bands from broccoli to the central area holding a felt egg cradle that had a velcro flap securing the egg. Worked flawlessly. Got my a for the day