#common-sense

#common-sense

When the Americans first went to the moon, they discovered that the ballpoint pen didn't work in space. So NASA got to work, spending billions of dollars to invent a biro that would work in zero gravity and on any surface imaginable.

Through hundreds of experiments and a set of static and dynamic simulations, we demonstrate a statistically significant decrease in the likelihood that an egg breaks when oriented horizontally as opposed to vertically, and offer a concrete and intuitive explanation as to why this is the case.