I think the reason my egg drop was good is because of our parachutes. Keith and I decided to use one big parachute on the 12 foot drop and add a second smaller one on the bigger drop. Ours worked excellently and went down at about like 2 1/2 feet per second so it did pretty well. Also, I think it worked well because we had a back up plan. Using a plastic bag and some paper towels, we had the egg wrapped up safely just in case the parachutes didn't work and didn't slow it down enough.
I was disapointed when the egg didn't make it the second time we dropped it from the tall one. Even though we had to take off the parachutes, I thought that we did a good enough job protecting the egg that it would still live. I thought wrong. I think we could have improved our drop a little better by using something other than paper towels. Cotton might have worked better. But ah well, better luck next time.
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