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Annual Egg Drop
Aired April 30, 2003 - 05:51 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: How much thought does it take to drop an egg, you ask? Well, lots if you're trying not to break it.
Our Jeanne Moos dropped in on an egg drop at New York City College.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's one thing to crack an egg. But to behead one?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is a guillotine.
MOOS: Actually, the guillotine and half a dozen other contraptions were designed to prevent a Humpty-Dumpty scenario, you know, where he sat on a wall and had a great fall. Every spring, engineering and architecture students here at Cooper Union try to build something to protect their egg from a three story fall. No bubble wrap allowed.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Essentially it's full of water balloons, actually.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It has the rubber bands on the inside that prevent it from hitting the sides.
MOOS (on camera): So the egg is going to go right in here?
(voice-over): Moments later, cushioned by origami, the egg was airborne.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We've got an (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
MOOS (on camera): Congratulations.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you.
MOOS (voice-over): The water balloon filled tube likewise worked. But the cube with the egg suspended by rubber bands bombed.
(on camera): In the end we had three that broke.
Geez.
There's a little problem here.
(voice-over): Our favorite was the guillotine. The egg sat atop a razor blade apparatus.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This thing's going to slide down and slice the strings.
MOOS: To gradually break the egg's fall.
(on camera): But you have to take risks.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Exactly.
MOOS: That was a risky design.
(voice-over): Our slow motion replay shows the blade broke off. As for the winner...
(on camera): So the egg is there then there's a bed of sand and then there are partitions to break its fall?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
MOOS (voice-over): The end opposite of the egg was weighted down with bolts so it would hit first.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Aha!
MOOS (on camera): This one could double as a weapon of mass destruction.
(voice-over): And you thought cholesterol was bad.
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired April 30, 2003 - 05:51 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: How much thought does it take to drop an egg, you ask? Well, lots if you're trying not to break it.
Our Jeanne Moos dropped in on an egg drop at New York City College.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's one thing to crack an egg. But to behead one?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is a guillotine.
MOOS: Actually, the guillotine and half a dozen other contraptions were designed to prevent a Humpty-Dumpty scenario, you know, where he sat on a wall and had a great fall. Every spring, engineering and architecture students here at Cooper Union try to build something to protect their egg from a three story fall. No bubble wrap allowed.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Essentially it's full of water balloons, actually.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It has the rubber bands on the inside that prevent it from hitting the sides.
MOOS (on camera): So the egg is going to go right in here?
(voice-over): Moments later, cushioned by origami, the egg was airborne.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We've got an (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
MOOS (on camera): Congratulations.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you.
MOOS (voice-over): The water balloon filled tube likewise worked. But the cube with the egg suspended by rubber bands bombed.
(on camera): In the end we had three that broke.
Geez.
There's a little problem here.
(voice-over): Our favorite was the guillotine. The egg sat atop a razor blade apparatus.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This thing's going to slide down and slice the strings.
MOOS: To gradually break the egg's fall.
(on camera): But you have to take risks.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Exactly.
MOOS: That was a risky design.
(voice-over): Our slow motion replay shows the blade broke off. As for the winner...
(on camera): So the egg is there then there's a bed of sand and then there are partitions to break its fall?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
MOOS (voice-over): The end opposite of the egg was weighted down with bolts so it would hit first.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Aha!
MOOS (on camera): This one could double as a weapon of mass destruction.
(voice-over): And you thought cholesterol was bad.
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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