Throw down an egg from the 4th storey and feel great

Apparently it has been done before and regarding the fact that it really is a strange idea in the first place I don't hesitate to believe it. Leave a group of completely mixed young people with an egg, several sheets of newspaper and thicker paper, cellotape and string, tell them they have half an hour to ensure the egg stays unharmed if you throw it down from the 4th storey. They never tell you why anyone would do such a thing, but then, there are a lot of things which are left unexplained in the world, so we simply accepted the unconventional challenge. "We", by the way, were 5 students who happened to end up together after having drawn the same coloured sweets out of the hat.. Don't worry if you don't get that, it's an inside joke which occurred repeatedly during the intro week.
The result is well worth mentioning, it's such a crying shame you couldn't see it. We built a proper basket out of paper, arranged the newspaper inside it so it would cushion the bounce. Usually we ignore the fact that air is all around us but this time we used it by building a double-parachute to slow down the fall. It was attached to the basket with strings in each corner. While other groups had wrapped endless layers of paper around their egg (which each landed on the ground with a huge BANG..) we finally put our precious egg into the basket, fixed it with cellotape but left it freely visible on top.
So what can I say? It was like angels had learned how to fly by watching our brilliant construction floating down! It was truly perfect and I'm sure the egg felt great feeling the wind rushing past its sides. We certainly did.