510: Egg Drop Failure

Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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Egg Drop Failure
"I hear my brother Ricky won his school's egg drop by leaving the egg inside the hen."
Title text: "I hear my brother Ricky won his school's egg drop by leaving the egg inside the hen."

Explanation

We all remember the egg drop from school, make some way of getting an egg to drop to the ground without breaking using the weirdest things possible. The poor student here had an egg that was ready to hatch, and it did during the fall. Problem is you loose if your egg has any cracks in it. Unforchently birds aren't ready to fly that quickly...though if I was a bird falling to earth with a toilet paper parachute, I would take my chances and fly off too. As for the image text, dropping a hen would guarantee a win. As it is falling the chicken will try to fly and are very good about landing softly. And most chickens lay an egg every 24 hours, so if you pick the right chicken it will lay just after hitting the ground.


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Discussion

Newborn birds can't fly. I call shenanigans on this comic. Davidy22(talk) 11:08, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

The contraption was so well built that it took several months for it to land; hence the hatching and ability to fly. flewk (talk) 00:42, 4 January 2016 (UTC)

Oh, so that's where the soup comes from! 108.162.221.64 09:29, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

I was adding a citation, but after a bit of research, an average ethiopian chicken apparently checks all the boxes in at least one egg drop competition, as long as you can fit a large grade A egg in there.--162.158.193.247 06:01, 16 July 2022 (UTC)