I dare them to make an omelette wit that.
Can't make science without breaking an egg!
1,700 year old egg never broke
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What's your definition of a scientist?
I wonder if many of history's greatest scientists might fail to meet it.
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#13duke dennis must’ve saved the egg for breakfast but forgot about it loll
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#14I guess they are scientists and know better than me, but my bet is that is will just contain sludge. Egg shells are more organic than you expect. This is why you use stuff like waterglass https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_silicate to seal them.
> Egg shells are more organic than you expect.
I expect them to be completely organic. What else would they be?
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#15I guess they are scientists and know better than me, but my bet is that is will just contain sludge. Egg shells are more organic than you expect. This is why you use stuff like waterglass https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_silicate to seal them.
> Egg shells are more organic than you expect. I expect them to be completely organic. What else would they be?
Mostly calcium carbonate.
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#16I wonder why they don't put it in a CT scanner first before breaking it.
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"Scientist" is cool, but personally I would call myself a "forensic archeologist" if I had this gig.
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#18I wonder why they don't put it in a CT scanner first before breaking it.
> A Micro CT scan showed that this ancient egg is still full of liquid.
> “Researchers are planning to carefully extract the liquid to better study it,” stated Edward Biddulph, Senior Project Manager, who oversaw the site excavation. “It’s a controlled process similar to egg blowing, where a tiny hole is made in its shell after creating a 3D model.”
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#19I dare them to make an omelette wit that.
Fry it up with bog butter!
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#20I think they should not pierce it, but instead leave it for future humans to study.
Science funding requires doing something. Nobody funds you to not do something.
Regardless of getting funding, I don't see why our level of technology is not adequate to study an egg.