Chromosome Saver

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My claim was that memory foam would be the best, and I was right. My partners and I made a helmet designs call Chromosome Saver.I uses 1 piece of medium foam, 7 pieces of memory foam, and on 12 pieces thin foam. It is made for football. It is one of the best helmets on the market. No one has a helmet quite like this.
We ran extensive tests on our helmet designs. Our testing equipment was one testing plate and a soccer ball. What we did was simple. All we did was drop the soccer ball form one meter up and drop it on the force plate. The first thing we did was look for the control. We did this by doing the test with no materials on the force plate. We had a control test of 456 N. With our helmet we deceased this by 72% with meant that the
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So we took the mass and velocity, even the time to find the best helmet design. We thought about what was the best was to spread out the force over time.What we found is if you cotion the blow of the soccer ball the force will be spread out. We used memory foam to do this. Memory feam was the only option because it collapses on itself the gose bag to original form.
This helmet meets the criteria for football because first it need to be durable and be able to take many hits and still be functional , and it does this. Second it need to be able to take big blows and keep the person wearing the helmet safe, again it does this. LAst it needs to be light so that you can run and not have to keep you head balanced because of the materials. One big constraint is that it is a inch thicker than old football helmets.
So now you know why our helmet is the best . WE ran extensive tests on this helmet. There is no agle that it can take a blow from and no bash, or crash it may take. So we ask you for one time, and one tie only will you protect our youth and our greatest american sport. Or will you let them die, by wearing old cracked, plastic peice of garbage. We must rise above the terrors of concussion and help me and my fellow scientist protect our head from uter

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