I will never again doubt the internet
A 2-liter of Diet Coke and a roll of Mentos. I only managed to drop in three of the Mentos before I ran out of time.
(Photo credit: William Atwood)
There's aspartame in my hair.
(Photo credit: William Atwood)
There's aspartame in my hair.
11 Comments:
Someday, I will get my kids to do this, and call it a science experiement.
Pretty awesome.
By BrianT, at Wed Jun 28, 03:03:00 PM MST
Bro,
I actually did this at work. We did the whole drill the hole in the cap and suspend 5 mentos from a paperclip thing. The fountain went well over the backboard of our company basketball hoop. I think I've got my 4th of July display lined up!
By Michael van Eekhout, at Wed Jun 28, 03:44:00 PM MST
Sweet! I've gotta try this too.
Surely you've seen this, then?
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5459323
By Michael Jasper, at Thu Jun 29, 02:49:00 AM MST
Urgh -- let's have that link again, eh?
By Michael Jasper, at Thu Jun 29, 02:49:00 AM MST
Funny, but not as funny as the description of the beer brewing gone awry. Why is that? Is it that precedent has already been set, or that a picture is NOT worth a thousand words (although the first shot of the coke spattering over you elicited a genuine "laugh out loud").
Thank you for sharing and making my day.
By AaronJV, at Thu Jun 29, 03:30:00 AM MST
But, Aaron, the beer story is enhanced by the pic of the hole in the ceiling!
Mike J, it was that video that convinced me the whole Coke/Mentos thing was a total hoax!
By Greg van Eekhout, at Thu Jun 29, 08:15:00 AM MST
Dude, who was your cameraman?
I tried this myself a couple months back with no luck. Of course, my 2-liter had been sitting opening in the fridge for about a week, so that may have had something to do with it.
By Jon Hansen, at Thu Jun 29, 08:38:00 AM MST
Camera was just manned by some dude at work who was smart enough to find the billion-frames-per-second setting.
By Greg van Eekhout, at Thu Jun 29, 09:12:00 AM MST
He Couz, I'm going to try this with my first graders on their first day of school. Can't wait!
By Cousin Ellen, at Thu Jun 29, 09:26:00 AM MST
I've been wanting to do this for weeks, but sadly you just can't get mentos over here, and apparently no other brands work as well. :( Perhaps time to move to America...
By Patrick Samphire, at Thu Jun 29, 12:12:00 PM MST
LOL! This made my day! I hope you got the aspertame out.
Deborah Green
By Anonymous, at Thu Jun 29, 12:55:00 PM MST
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