Letter: Letters: Eggs in the air

From DAVID TONG

Now that the bath vortex business has been fully recycled (Letters,
2 October, etc.), maybe you should also refloat the one about chucking hens’
eggs onto grass?

My friends and I had great fun in the early 1960s repeating the experiment
first described in New Scientist of throwing eggs as high as we could into
the air. And yes! If they landed on grass they did indeed usually survive
the impact.

I admit I still try it now and again to impress people and to keep
my hand in, and it still amazes me.

Let’s not deny the new generation of readers the same fun. It might
even be a handy way to separate free-range from battery, although this needs
further research.

David Tong Leeds