The title says it all, it is a serious discussion about the shape of eggs. Please keep it on topic!

The Management.

The title says it all, it is a serious discussion about the shape of eggs. Please keep it on topic!

The Management.

Eggs are shaped the way they are so they don't get confused with donuts !

No, seriously. Could you imagine a chicken trying to lay a couple of square eggs everyday.

Or trying to sit on and hatch some triangular shaped eggs ?

It would make them easier to package if they were nice and cube shaped. But if they were, what would the chickens that were hatched from those cube shaped eggs look like ?

Maybe a marketing idea there. After all, if the Japanese can grow square Watermelons, why not square eggs ?

Why are eggs shaped the way they are? Easy.

A sphere is the shape that has the maximum volume to surface area. The eggs need to conserve heat for the chicks to hatch, so, this is the best shape to conserve heat.

The trouble with a sphere, though, is it could roll away. By slightly elongating a sphere (eg. egg shaped), it ensures that if the egg rolls away, it will eventually roll back to it's original position.

Plus the fact, the taper ensures that their ----- don't shut with a bang.

I had an egg-shaped submarine once. A great shape to cut through the water when submerged. Aquadynamics are so much more interesting than aerodymanics!

I swapped it for a kit car. A repro AC Cobra witha v8 Rover engine. Shit myself stupid driving it 'pedal to the metal'!

Raro: "Please keep it on topic!"

Oh ye of little faith!

Think of your arse hole and then think of a pineapple............................Simply really.

Why are eggs shaped the way they are? Easy.

A sphere is the shape that has the maximum volume to surface area. The eggs need to conserve heat for the chicks to hatch, so, this is the best shape to conserve heat.

The trouble with a sphere, though, is it could roll away. By slightly elongating a sphere (eg. egg shaped), it ensures that if the egg rolls away, it will eventually roll back to it's original position.

Exactly.

You will even find that birds which typically nest on Cliff ledges - Guillemots etc. lay eggs which are even more ummm egg shaped, indeed they are almost cone shaped, so that they do not roll off the nest ledge as would a more spherical object.

Patrick

I just realised that that was my 1,000 th Post.

I had hoped to mark that milestone with something profound!

Patrick (with apologies to Raro!)

It's obvious really, eggs are shaped the way they are so that they can fit in to egg cups.

What about people with heads shaped like eggs?

What about people with heads shaped like eggs?

They do not fit in Egg Cups - unless they are very large and made by Ikea.

Those egg cup seats are terrible after a few beers. ou can't get out of the frickin things and usually end up tipping it over on the floor with your beer landing on your chest.

Plus the fact, the taper ensures that their ----- don't shut with a bang.

shucks...I was gonna say that. Follows on from why turds are tapered... (oops, off topic; chickens ain't got no turds...)

Female scientists have just crossed a chicken with an onion.

At last a cock guaranteed to make them cry........................

Plus the fact, the taper ensures that their ----- don't shut with a bang.

shucks...I was gonna say that. Follows on from why turds are tapered... (oops, off topic; chickens ain't got no turds...)

So what's all this chickenshit then?

Splat!

I reckon raro must of had a few before returning home and getting himself all wound up about eggs yesterday evening.

Could have been worse. He could have started a topic about his chest...........nuts !

I just realised that that was my 1,000 th Post.

I had hoped to mark that milestone with something profound!

Patrick (with apologies to Raro!)

Well done patrick, congrats. With a name like patrick you deserve a lick of the Irish. These are just the girls to do it! They can toss my feathers any day - check this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHjS8Oz8Gkg...com/2008/03/17/

Female scientists have just crossed a chicken with an onion.

At last a cock guaranteed to make them cry........................

Why are eggs egg-shaped

So that things won't go pear-shaped.

To fit spoons, for egg and spoon races.

This site tells all ya need to know about eggs

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qi...01070709AAPJ2U4

Just when you thought it had all been said, some old fart comes along and pastes pictures of round eggs !

Is this a joke ?

Raro, when are you going to post the punch line ?

Is this a joke ?

Raro, when are you going to post the punch line ?

I think he's waiting for it to go off-topic...

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?s=...t&p=1935000

The shape of a longitudinal centerline section of an egg can be described as a Cartesian Oval.

René Descartes, a famous French mathematician and philosopher (perhaps best known for the deduction "I think, therefore I am") invented the Cartesian coordinates that bear his name, and also discovered an interesting way to modify the pins-and-string construction for ellipses to produce more egg-shaped curves.

In an ordinary ellipse, there are two fixed points (called the foci) in the midddle of the figure. The sum of the distances from a point on the ellipse to each of the two foci is the same for all points on the ellipse. In a Cartesian oval, there are still two foci. However now the distance from a point to the one focus plus TWICE its distance to the other focus is what remains the same for all points on the curve.

A Cartesian Oval is the figure consisting of all those points for which the sum of the distance to one focus plus twice the distance to a second focus is a constant.

So now you know.

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I once had to build a 6 metre high Cartesian Cross (named after the afore mentioned Rene Descartes) for a stage show. (True)

So if anybody would like to know how to make a Cartesian Cross see below :-

Throw eggs at him - boom-boom...... (Fell for the hoary old one didn't you ? )

Lotsa round eggs.

I eat more round eggs, than egg (<deleted>) shaped ones.

Love me caviar, smoked snapper roe, eggs, to die for, yummy.

It would make them easier to package if they were nice and cube shaped. But if they were, what would the chickens that were hatched from those cube shaped eggs look like ?

Maybe a marketing idea there. After all, if the Japanese can grow square Watermelons, why not square eggs ?

What a coincidence. I just had some pics of Japanese watermelons emailed to me. I'll bet if we suggest it to the right people, they could do the same with eggs:

And it's not just eggs that are oval shaped. What do you think this is ?

IKEA eat your heart out !

It would make them easier to package if they were nice and cube shaped. But if they were, what would the chickens that were hatched from those cube shaped eggs look like ?

Maybe a marketing idea there. After all, if the Japanese can grow square Watermelons, why not square eggs ?

What a coincidence. I just had some pics of Japanese watermelons emailed to me. I'll bet if we suggest it to the right people, they could do the same with eggs:

And it's not just eggs that are oval shaped. What do you think this is ?

IKEA eat your heart out !

No way.

Eggs are hard before laying.

Chooks would go on strike.

Imagine being constipated with hard, square turds?

Yeeeeowwwww.........