Today, I finished up my physics project. I had to make some thing out of toothpicks and glue that will keep an egg from breaking when dropped 20 feet. It took me 10 hours to make it, but only took my dad 10 seconds to step on it and break it. It's due tomorrow. FML
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On 11/11/2009 at 2:09pm - misc - by Physics fail. - United States
I think what he meant was he was gone for ten seconds when it was broken, not his dad stepped on it for ten seconds.
#48 - On 11/11/2009 at 9:02pm by seanreddog
I remember doing this project as well. I used a paper cup, cotton balls, paperclips, string, and a Wal-Mart bag. I made a parachute and the cotton balls were to resist shock.
It took me 15-30 minutes. Why'd it take you 10 hours?
FAIL people. Re-read the FML.
It's for physics, and must be made of toothpicks and glue.
Toothpicks and glue.
Have that key fact down? Good.
#56 - On 11/11/2009 at 9:45pm by LemonFairy
I did it in second grade and dropped of the top of my school. I took a big foam ball, cut a hole in it and tied it to a helium balloon. The balloon didn't do much, but it looked cool and my egg was fine. Took me ten minutes.
But i guess had to does mean its a requirement, so, my bad.
#60 - On 11/11/2009 at 9:49pm by seanreddog
Because it had to be made out of toothpicks! Glued together individually in a well thought out structure
#62 - On 11/11/2009 at 10:03pm by Sun_Kissed18
The easiest way to do this is make a quick cube - like 1 tooth pick's length in measurement. And then, a minute before it is dropped, pour a litre or two of glue into it. sure it'll overflow, but the egg is gonna be a-ok.
if your dad broke it by stepping on it how did you expect it to survive the fall?
#110 - On 11/12/2009 at 6:32pm by catwest8686
FAIL. Left it in a place where it could be stepped on.
#115 - On 11/13/2009 at 11:12am by MrAdventure
Because people should expect Physics projects to be lying around on the floor...? YDI, OP.
#3 - On 11/11/2009 at 5:38pm by BeeSkwaird
I'm assuming that at least some of those 10 hours were spent on designing, so now that you have the design, you should be able to re-create it pretty quickly. If not, well, the ultimate physics fail doesn't go to your dad.
#4 - On 11/11/2009 at 5:38pm by pope_suburban
You spent ten hours on something and left in on the FLOOR where someone could easily step on it? YDI.
Your dad climbed up on the table and crushed your project?
He probably just wanted you to fail so you would stay home with him forever. He loves you!
what was it doing on the floor?
Smart move genious.
I guess humpty dumpty is not going to make it D:
#10 - On 11/11/2009 at 5:49pm by NoneOfTheAbove
Smart reply misspelling genius, NoneOfTheAbove. Doesn't really work when you're trying to make fun of someone's intelligence. FAIL.
@ mock09 - And what does a typo have to do with intelligence?
#99 - On 11/12/2009 at 8:01am by AcesAndEights
YDI because it took you 10 hours to make the first one. We did the same thing back in my high school science class except we only had one class to make design and create the whole thing, and most of the groups successfully protected the egg. Its not that tough......unless you're retarded.
#11 - On 11/11/2009 at 5:49pm by McBadAss
Its not an FML or a YDI. Fact of the matter is, it wouldn't have worked anyways. Those things never work. I hated doing that when I took physics (6 years ago :-\)
#12 - On 11/11/2009 at 5:49pm by JP101
Just have your dad call up the school and tell them you're sick. It'll buy you an extra day.
#13 - On 11/11/2009 at 5:51pm by cthulhu1138
It took your dad 10 seconds to take a step? o.O
BOOM! BOOM!
"It's Godzilla!"
#15 - On 11/11/2009 at 5:54pm by BlowYaMind
complete YDI fuktard.
"Today, I was too stupid of an ass to keep my fragile project on a desk or table, so I put it on the floor. Someone stepped on it. Predictable. FML
#17 - On 11/11/2009 at 5:58pm by ryanryanryan12
Oh, I bet! And the kid just watched in terror... hah.. terror.... >:]
#18 - On 11/11/2009 at 6:04pm by BlowYaMind
he could have easily left it on the floor. when your building something like that, you want all the materials where you can get them. but why would you leave it on the floor after you were done building it?
good luck rebuilding it, but part of it is your own damn fault
#19 - On 11/11/2009 at 6:11pm by hXcsoccerplaya
I remember doing that project it's hard and does take awhile 10hr? yeah i think NOT come on leaving it on the floor ? your smart clap clap clap good for you!
#20 - On 11/11/2009 at 6:16pm by Tamara2011
WAIT a minute here. Is the egg placed inside project and then whole thing dropped or is it dropped from 20 feet onto the assignment? Because if it's the first one, how can it protect an egg if you dad can step on it and easily break it? Assuming he's not morbidly obese that is.
#23 - On 11/11/2009 at 6:19pm by indianabummer
somebody stepping on something by accident would give more pressure than something falling from 20ft, i stepped on a controller when i was a little kid and broke the joy stick, try dropping one from 20ft and see if it breaks. simple fact is that your dad is godzilla and he wanted to reenact an episode on your project. now if your project was missing...and you see a bit of ash in its place, then your totally screwed. and 10hrs? how slow could you go? it would only take a few to glue the sticks together. well if you cant succeed with toothpicks make the whole damn thing outa glue with one toothpick in the middle. the glue itself would protect the egg, but remember to superglue the egg to your project when the teacher isnt looking.
If your dad stepping on it crushed it, it's sure as shit not going to survive a 20 foot fall.
Redesign!
#24 - On 11/11/2009 at 6:20pm by kazkazkazkaz
If you are stupid enough to leave it right where you dad could step on it, you are too stupid to design a working egg protector.
Just take your egg in class and smash it on the wall. It will be more fun than suffering the humiliation of having your device fail and the end result would be the same.
You can re-do it really quickly, just construct the whole thing out of foam this time. Every egg-drop I've had to do has taken the weight of the delivery system into account and foam is perfect because it's lightweight, will elastically deform to stresses when it hits the ground, and it will help absorb some of the shock from impact.
If it really has to be done from toothpicks and glue, try using a hot glue gun instead of say, elmers, (it should provide a better hold and go more quickly since it will set in a matter of seconds rather than minutes) and quickly reassemble your earlier design. Just keep it up on a shelf and don't let your dad near it this time!
Easiest way is just to tape a bunch of balloons together and stick the egg in the middle, works perfectly just secure it carefully
#30 - On 11/11/2009 at 6:46pm by intheflesh
Don't leave important shit lying around the house! If you want a quick project fix, just get two thick chunks of foam rubber, hollow out a half-egg shape on wach side, put the egg in, tape or glue it together and you're gold. its how i passed mine. I guess you'd have to stick a couple toothpicks in it tho.
#33 - On 11/11/2009 at 7:14pm by prizefight
1) why is it on the floor?
2) why does your dad take one step every 10 seconds?
You fail on multiple levels.
gf.
#34 - On 11/11/2009 at 7:28pm by epicwinmaster
dude I did this in 4th grade, from even higher up. how the FUCK did it take you 10 hours!?! It took me like 5 minutes. I Ijust made a box out of Styrofoam with a space in the middle, and my friend just used a plastic bag full of packing peanuts seems pretty fucking simple to me, what were you trying to do?
#40 - On 11/11/2009 at 8:04pm by conartist66
why doesnt anybody understand it has to be made using ONLY and ONLY toothpicks and glue, it is so clearly implied that a retard who cant type would understand it, but clearly your more retarded than that, FYL for being retarded. And if your working on a project you would want to lie down if its gonna take that long, so i guess the OP is a normal person and not some geek or loser like most of you people who cant read are.
lol if it didnt survive being stepped on then it wouldnt have survived the drop anyways
whatever grade your in.. why wud it take u 10 hrs..
Just don't volunteer to go first! When everyone has to present a project the teacher usually can't get to everyone in one class period.
#42 - On 11/11/2009 at 8:23pm by caroline081287
For all the ppl saying it's easy just add a parachute etc. the op wrote that he can only use toothpicks......retards
#43 - On 11/11/2009 at 8:39pm by Too_lazy_2_think
There's usually a size, weight, and material limit on these projects.... But TEN HOURS!? Seriously? 20 minutes would be excessive.
#44 - On 11/11/2009 at 8:43pm by seanreddog
id say its 100% your fault #45 because any normal person would work on the floor and after working for that long take a drink or go to the bathroom while leaving it where they worked, FYL for being a creeper.
HAHA, I love when people say "ydi for..." and then follow that up with some ridiculous false statement. That wasn't sarcasm either. I found that hysterical. WIN, bishop.
Ummm, he stepped on it for 10 seconds? That's a really long time for stepping on something.
#47 - On 11/11/2009 at 8:58pm by ericlikesfml
You deserve it for leaving something that important on the floor, and not just on the floor, but in a spot where other people are going to be walking.
#49 - On 11/11/2009 at 9:03pm by capthavoc123
not exactly #51, the OP clearly states that he has to use toothpicks and glue, if he could use anything else he would have said so, so FYL for the millionth time for being a retard. HOW MANY RETARDS ARE THERE?
I remember doing this project as well. I constructed mine in 20 minutes. I failed epically; the key, as I recall, is to spread the toothpicks out to allow the outside toothpicks to break and absorb the collision impact. You should be able to salvage the damage; don't put as much glue the second time around to allow for proper drying time.
First, it's clear that almost everybody who commented did NOT fully read the FML: the project HAD to be made of toothpicks and glue.
As somebody who had to make a whole tower that was to support ten times its weight out of uncooked spaghetti and Elmer's white glue ONLY last year I feel your pain OP. I can understand why it would be on the floor, too, if it was a project or mechanism that was larger. (Not sure if you're putting the egg in the project and then dropping the project like most people seem to think, but the wording suggested, at least to me, that you were dropping the egg /into/ it.)
FYL. Hope you did okay on the project regardless.
#59 - On 11/11/2009 at 9:49pm by LemonFairy
i did that in 3rd grade and wrapped the egg in bubble wrap! it's super easy and my egg was fine!
#61 - On 11/11/2009 at 9:50pm by ooohlife
#61 did you not look at #59's comment? I had to do that project too. And it HAS to be done out of toothpicks and Glue. Mine was quite large(not sure is OP is the same) and had I put it on a table then it would be in the way. I put mine in a corner of the room.
#63 - On 11/11/2009 at 10:03pm by JaggedJacii
I couldn't imagine the OP's could be that big and his dad still end up stepping on it! Unless he meant to....I mean he did step on it for 10 seconds. HAHA YOUR DAD HATES YOU!!!!!
#73 - On 11/11/2009 at 11:07pm by grrrarrrg2
It took him 10 seconds to step on something? Was he walking in slow motion, or what?
#64 - On 11/11/2009 at 10:06pm by EpicNguyen
Oooo that sux, u mean like the egg drop i did in like 4th grade that took me like 10 mins to make, quit ur whining
it's supposed to support an egg after being dropped 20 ft and it couldn't even survive your dads weight fail
#67 - On 11/11/2009 at 10:24pm by coldplaylive2003
I guess nobody here can read! IT HAD TO BE MADE OUT OF TOOTHPICKS AND GLUE ONLY!!! NO parachutes, NO styrofoam, NO cotton, NOTHING ELSE! >_
#69 - On 11/11/2009 at 10:36pm by xxXChiiXxx
Damn, kid, we just had to make bridges that'd hold a couple textbooks or something...
#71 - On 11/11/2009 at 11:04pm by DameGreyWulf
OP, here you go.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006051521961
http://madsci.org/posts/archives/jan99/916761837.Ph.r.html
Not sure if either of those links will be helpful to you, but maybe they'll give you some good ideas...so it won't take you 10 hours to remake your project. Good luck! :)
hey everyone saying 'ydi for leaving it on the floor:' maybe it was on the floor because he/she was testing it. it was designed to be dropped on the floor
Hey cut OP some slack. Has anyone ever thought that maybe just maybe OP was doing the project on the floor and didnt want to move it till the glue was dry?. OP FYL for having your project destroyed, lesson for father watch where your walking.
#80 - On 11/12/2009 at 12:36am by Lightz_Camera_Me
Yeah. I put mine in a nerf football. It was supposed to be dropped but my teacher ended up having a ridiculous throwing arm and launched my football... egg broke.
This was years ago, can't believe they're still doing this.
Try packaging peanuts next time.
#82 - On 11/12/2009 at 12:47am by happyvalleygirl
It was probably on the floor because he was testing it, and when he went to go pick it up his dad stepped on it.
#83 - On 11/12/2009 at 12:48am by besad
That's a slooooooow step. YDI for not jumping on him and knocking him out of the way during second #1. XD
#85 - On 11/12/2009 at 12:58am by marshmallowmouse
Almost an FML,but unless your dad's Bigfoot, 200 feet tall,walks on tables or all of the above,YDI for leaving it on the floor.
#86 - On 11/12/2009 at 1:01am by alpha_beta
Now why the hell did you leave it somewhere your pops could walk on it? @_@
#87 - On 11/12/2009 at 1:11am by blastvortex
Why was your dad walking on the table? Or rather, why were you the numb nuts that had it on the floor?
#89 - On 11/12/2009 at 1:51am by SarcasticAvenger
His dad probably wanted to ''test'' if the egg would withstand his foot, right after he has seen it falling from 20 feet.
I'm trying to figure out how half of you managed to use a computer. First of all this person is most likely in high school, not elementary school, I'm pretty sure the grading standard is higher so quit trying to compare it to the project you did in second grade especial since nearly everyone of you said something about using foam when it has been stated multiple times that they could only use toothpicks and glue. Second the whole 10 seconds thing was just to make a point about the small amount of time it took their dad to ruin the project compared to how long it took to make it you really didn't need to take that part so litterally.
Exactly what I wanted to say. Apparently, most of the people replying failed the reading comprehension part of their SATs.
#98 - On 11/12/2009 at 7:42am by KarelessKitten
THANK YOU SO MUCH. You took the words right out of my mouth. In agreement with this x100!
#114 - On 11/13/2009 at 3:11am by mouseclicks
To everyone saying "YDI for leaving it on the floor": some constructions like that can't be kept anywhere BUT on the floor. People tend to use tables for EATING on and the family probably couldn't really have dinner at the table with a physics project sitting on it.
Get your dad to write a note saying he broke it.
fyl. idt op deserved it. they probably took a quick break leaving the project where they worked on it and unfortunately it got stepped on.
besides if the op's dad posted an fml saying he broke op's project everyone would be telling him he deserved it for not watching where he was going.
do youguys think before insulting him about leaving it on the floor that he couldve been testing it out?
#95 - On 11/12/2009 at 4:03am by wrigglezeus
Hey peoples, I don't think it takes his daddy 10 full seconds to take a step, what if his dad was walking and got his foot stuck in the project, and it took him 10 seconds to get the project off his foot, thus destroying it in 10 seconds?
#100 - On 11/12/2009 at 8:19am by NarowMindedIdiot
I never do my projects but thats sucks for you next time make your dad do it!
#101 - On 11/12/2009 at 10:58am by SilverStrs5
Why is Gods name did you spend 10 hours on this project. I did mine in, at the most, an hour and a half, and mine worked.
#105 - On 11/12/2009 at 2:22pm by BioMajor12
Today, my roommate ate my mold-studying science project that had been sitting in the fridge for a month. FML
It took him 10 seconds to break it? What, did you just watch in horror as his foot advanced down onto the contraption?
'Cause really, when I think of this situation, I imagine him with his foot above the project in a tableau for ten seconds. You could have taken those 9 seconds in between step and crunch. Seriously, YDI.
If it takes you 10 hours to do this kind of 'elaborate' project, you could have at least taken better care of it once you were finished :(
#108 - On 11/12/2009 at 5:29pm by lovexinstead
thank you comment #1 YDI for putting your project where someone could step on it
#111 - On 11/12/2009 at 8:34pm by indygirl24
Jesus you have a dumb ass physics class. Fail the project and use that time to learn real physics like special relativity. Trust me. It is never worth it.
#112 - On 11/12/2009 at 10:15pm by unbreakablehoes
Holy shit, I just went through almost the exact same thing as you a week ago. Physics - same project, and everything. Toothpicks, and glue only. What are the chances? :)
But, I was desperate enough to win in my period, so I became over-confident and pre-tested my container. The egg survived, the container...not so much. :( And I didn't have enough time to rebuild the crushed parts on the bottom-left for the next morning.
But, dear god. What is with all of the retards on FML. He said the only materials allowed were toothpicks and glue. Honestly, we don't care or give a fuck how special you feel, or how much you want to brag about that super duper project you made in 5th grade.
In the U.S. (or at least Cali, where I'm taking my physics course), Physics is typically an 11th grade class! Obviously, it's going to be plenty more complicated that your stupid elementary school project. It's already been repeated 20 times in the comments, and in the OP itself that the ONLY MATERIALS ALLOWED WERE TOOTHPICKS AND GLUE. This challenged the student to be able to calculate impact force, incorporate the velocity formula with the displacement from when its dropped, mass, and determine/ estimate how their container will protect the egg. My project also took several hours like the OP.
All of you kiddies who think it's so easy, just because you attached a fucking parachute or stuck in some styrofoam around your egg in 3rd grade, GET OVER IT. 11 grade physics in comparison to you stupid elementary school project which was 10x easier. TOOTHPICKS AND GLUE ONLY, YOU FUCKING RETARDS. God. I'm still in disbelief how stupid so many of you are (not to mention, so many of you trying to call the OP a dumbass can't even spell, rofl. Read carefully next time.)
#113 - On 11/13/2009 at 1:55am by mouseclicks
He is a dumbass, you dumbass. He left his shit on the floor to get stepped on by his father, so he deserves it.
Also TL;DR, no one cares about your rants and butt-hurt.
#116 - On 11/14/2009 at 12:04am by Shuinoshina
You should see this as an opportunity; now you actually have a reason to kill that father of yours.
#117 - On 11/14/2009 at 5:25am by CheeseHater
