Talk:Egg of Columbus/@comment-5782071-20161228021720/@comment-1674153-20161228082449

It's an apocraphal story about Christopher Columbus where he challenged his detractors (who said that the discovery of the Americas was inevitable) to balance an egg on it's tip. No one could figure it out until Columbus flattened the tip of the egg against the table and was thus able to balance it. Utlimately, it refers to the idea that brilliant solutions are seen as easy or simple only after the fact.

With that in mind, the egg actually doesn't need an origin. It could have been something named after Columbus similar to the shoes being named after Nike. And mind you, it could be Columbus' Egg...I don't find that likely, personally. It's probably a rock shaped like an egg with abnormally strong energy fields.