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Tomorrow is the autumnal equinox -- should eggs be able to stand on end?

 
 
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Tomorrow is the autumnal equinox -- should eggs be able to stand on end? This long-standing myth loses much of its mystique after a demonstration that eggs can be made to stand on end during any day of the year. Pictured below, Dr. Phil Plait, acting as the Bad Astronomer balanced three raw eggs on end in late October 1998. Later, more modestly, his wife balanced five more. The little-appreciated fact that most eggshells have small bumps on them makes this seemingly impossible task achievable. Although, during an equinox, every place on Earth experiences an equal length day and night (12 hours each), this fact has no practical effect on egg stability.

http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/egg_spin.html#badegg
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Reply Sun 21 Sep, 2008 10:38 am
@BumbleBeeBoogie,
One time Napoleon gave a hard boiled egg to his soldiers and he offered to make a General from anyone who could get the egg to stand on its end. No matter how hard the soldiers tried they could not accomplish the task. Finally, Napoleon took the egg, cracked the bottom, and made it stand on its end.

"You all give up too easily"he told his men.
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