# Bad Astronomer balances eggs **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 21, 2008, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-balances-eggs/464534 "2008-09-21T13:37:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![LH75](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lh75/32/4438_2.png) [@LH75](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LH75)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-balances-eggs/464534/1 "2008-09-21T13:37:02Z")
The Autumn Equinox is upon us: [balanced eggs](http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/) ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-balances-eggs/464534/2 "2008-09-21T13:47:25Z")
Shouldn’t that be Eggquinox? ---
**Author:** ![Morgenstern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-balances-eggs/464534/3 "2008-09-21T13:51:38Z")
But can you stack them? ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-balances-eggs/464534/4 "2008-09-21T21:34:02Z")
> [@Morgenstern](#): > > But can you stack them? Of course! Ummm…do you like yours scrambled or over easy? ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-balances-eggs/464534/5 "2008-09-21T22:34:03Z")
Do it for friends on a different day and say it’s because you have psychic powers. Be a bastard and superglue a couple dozen on a sidewalk for Halloween. Some kid is going to get the idea to throw one and it will break when they pull up on it. Funnier will be the kid that kicks it. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-balances-eggs/464534/6 "2008-09-21T22:46:20Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > Be a bastard and superglue a couple dozen on a sidewalk for Halloween. Some kid is going to get the idea to throw one and it will break when they pull up on it. Funnier will be the kid that kicks it. Silly **Harmonious**. They have to be rotten first! …or so I’ve heard. _cough_ ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-balances-eggs/464534/7 "2008-09-22T03:33:51Z")
Not only that, but the text accompanying the Astronomy Picture of the Day cites our own Cecil Adams’ [Straight Dope Column](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/416/can-you-stand-eggs-on-end-at-the-vernal-equinox-and-at-no-other-time) on the subject. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-balances-eggs/464534/8 "2008-09-22T13:32:19Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > Silly **Harmonious**. They have to be rotten first! > > …or so I’ve heard. _cough_ I had thought to mention that, but then I thought it was a given. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bad-astronomer-balances-eggs/464534/9 "2008-09-22T18:20:45Z")
I like it. Is there a good process to reliably “rottenize” an egg before going out with my superglue? I wish to maximize destructive yield.