[ale] [OT]: Better packing material than whipped cream?

[Jim Kinney]

My son used a sliding tube within a tube with rubber bands and a rubber
balloon sheet as a cradle. Tube had fins to make it stable for the drop.
They did 3 drops. The last drop another team member insisted to drop it and
did a bad release and it fell sideways. :-(
On Jan 27, 2014 11:26 PM, "Robert L. Harris" <robert.l.harris at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Ok, my son is doing the egg drop in high school physics.  He has a good
> plan but is limited by a 100gram weight limit.  He's thought of using
> whipped cream (frozen with dry-ice before drop) to act as a shock absorber.
>  I'm concerned with it breaking down and just becoming slush while he
> waits.  Anyone have any good suggestions?
>
> Robert
>
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