What Happens To An Egg When Dropped From Space? Watch And Find Outnewsbhunt

Remember those egg-dropping science experiments from your childhood? We all know that eggs are fragile and break easily if dropped. But, what happens to an egg when dropped from, say, space? Bewildered? Well, recently, a former NASA engineer, went the extra mile and demonstrated this similar experiment with a twist. He decided to drop an egg from space and let it plunge towards Earth, without breaking it. What he did know was that this attempt would be “physically, financially and mentally draining.” The video of the same has resurfaced online and spread like wildfire on the internet and has already garnered 45 million views on YouTube.

Mark Rober, a former NASA scientist and now a YouTuber is renowned for always keeping his users super curious and glued to his mind-blowing experimental videos on his channel. One of his videos where he drops an egg from space without breaking it has gone viral. The main challenge of the entire experiment was to make a contraption safe enough to hold a raw egg to not let it crack after being dropped from the maximum altitude possible.

The scientist’s initial plan was to drop the egg from one of the world’s tallest buildings, Burj Khalifa in Dubai. It is 2,716.5 feet high and in itself would have been a colossal accomplishment. But, in the video, he can be heard saying, “Humans are always building taller buildings.” So if he has to “future proof” this record, he realised he needs to go “all the way to the top and straight to outer space.”

He explained how he planned to proceed with his experiment. He wanted to clamp an egg to the front of the rocket, attach it to a weather balloon and send it up to space. When the balloon reaches there it will release the rocket and then let gravity do its work. The rocket will accelerate past Mach 1, thus breaking the speed of sound and then steer itself to the targetted location. And then, 300 feet above the ground it would release the egg, which would fall directly on a mattress that he placed on the ground.

During the tests, he failed multiple times which led to the egg breaking. He later brought his friend Adam Stelzner, a PhD from Caltech and NASA engineer. After various inspections and revisions, and building a new design with various technical tweaks he successfully carried out the experiment without breaking it or with any cracks.