comicfan Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 I remember doing that in science class, it feels like a million years ago. lol. 1
Tomas Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 I had forgotten all about that little trick. Of course, when I did it in science class it was 62 years ago. Must be getting old. 1
Bill W Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 I'm definitely ready for the warmer weather. Seeing the little egg trick, it also makes me hungry for an omelet. . 1
Slytherin Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 Not familiar with any egg tricks I love Spring and I want blue sky and sunshine
Sasha Distan Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 i have no idea how this is done... on the other hand, blue skies and sunshine make for happy cowboys
Kitt Posted March 21, 2014 Posted March 21, 2014 The way I was taught to balance the egg is actually not dependent on the equinox letting them balance. The one showed me put down a little pile of salt - settled the egg into it till it stood, then used a soda straw to gently blow most of the salt away, leaving the little bit unseen keeping the egg upright.
Astro Posted March 22, 2014 Posted March 22, 2014 The way I was taught to balance the egg is actually not dependent on the equinox letting them balance. The one showed me put down a little pile of salt - settled the egg into it till it stood, then used a soda straw to gently blow most of the salt away, leaving the little bit unseen keeping the egg upright. I remember doing this when I was younger. It was hilarious!
MikeL Posted March 22, 2014 Author Posted March 22, 2014 The way I was taught to balance the egg is actually not dependent on the equinox letting them balance. The one showed me put down a little pile of salt - settled the egg into it till it stood, then used a soda straw to gently blow most of the salt away, leaving the little bit unseen keeping the egg upright. I say you just dent the bottoms a little. That is cheating...totally unnecessary on the vernal equinox.
Kitt Posted March 22, 2014 Posted March 22, 2014 LOL I could never get the silly eggs to balance, equinox be damned! I must have had unbalanced eggs or something.
Suvitar Posted March 22, 2014 Posted March 22, 2014 I don´t know the egg trick but I do love spring, I love days getting longer and lighter and warmer, I love green grass and leaves and I love all the flowers. I don´t even mind the flies and mosquitoes. I just want more sunshine and no more snow!
Adam Phillips Posted March 22, 2014 Posted March 22, 2014 (edited) Uhhh...I hate to throw a wet blanket on this... Well, actually, I don't. I do hope everybody here realizes the thing about the equinox and eggs is a myth, right? There's a multitude of sites on the Internet debunking said myth, but here's the one at Snopes, which also includes a nice video of an egg being balanced at some ordinary not-equinox date. Edited March 22, 2014 by Adam Phillips 1
MikeL Posted March 22, 2014 Author Posted March 22, 2014 ...includes a nice video of an egg being balanced at some ordinary not-equinox date. It's not impossible to balance an egg on other dates; it's just easier to do so on the vernal equinox. There's a problem with myth busting. Disproving one minor point doesn't disprove everything.
Daddydavek Posted March 22, 2014 Posted March 22, 2014 Snopes had been really reliable from my long experience on the web.
Adam Phillips Posted March 22, 2014 Posted March 22, 2014 (edited) It's not impossible to balance an egg on other dates; it's just easier to do so on the vernal equinox. There's a problem with myth busting. Disproving one minor point doesn't disprove everything. Yes. But more than one minor point has been disproved. And beyond that, the reasoning that informs this myth has been thoroughly discredited. If you'd like, I can review in digest form the specific "disproofs" and the "discredited reasoning." In the same mode--the need for specificity when a person makes assertions--I'd ask you, what's the "minor point" that you consider to have been disproved in Snopes (or somewhere else)? Is it the contention that only at the equinox can you balance an egg? Or for that matter, what's the "everything" that you believe not to have been disproved? Is it that egg-balancing is more successful at the vernal equinox than at other times? That, too, has been refuted. Would you like the references? This little issue reminds me, in microcosm, of the whole creationist-evolution brouhaha. But you started this thread, so I'll just quietly withdraw now. I don't wanna offend anybody's sensibilities. I just thought... Meh. Never mind. My bad. Edited March 22, 2014 by Adam Phillips
MikeL Posted March 22, 2014 Author Posted March 22, 2014 Gee! You are really serious. All I did was stand some eggs on end, take a picture, and post it here. Enjoy the season. 1
Adam Phillips Posted March 22, 2014 Posted March 22, 2014 Gee! You are really serious. All I did was stand some eggs on end, take a picture, and post it here. Enjoy the season. Yeah, I've never been accused of being over-serious before. Sorry about that, and I'm definitely enjoying the season! Although in North Texas, we don't have much of a spring. We just have mostly annoyingly cold (though not by, say, Buffalo standards) and intolerably hot. 1
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