[javman]

I wonder if someone made a mistake with unit conversions... The next paragraph says:

> The results: over half of the eggs broke when dropped vertically from an 8-millimeter (31-inch) height

31 inches is 0.8m, not 8mm. Maybe they meant to say 0.8, 0.9, 1.0 meters? Strange.

[SamBam]

Yet the image ("Experimental snapshots for vertical (top) and horizontal (bottom) egg drops.") definitely appears to show something closer to 8mm, assuming the black area is the table.

Edit: Reading the paper [1] it's definitely 8mm. The ArsTechnica writer screwed up the conversion to inches. Should be 0.31".

1. https://www.nature.com/articles/s42005-025-02087-0