couldn't this be our alternative energy source?

Wait till they hear about Pop Rocks.

God help us if Diet Coke Lake Dam ever breaks and floods the Mentos Forest

Hobodeluxe: couldn't this be our alternative energy source?

Great Idea! I'm gonna drop some mentos and coke into my car's fuel tank. I will get back to you guys to report.

KayakDude: Hobodeluxe: couldn't this be our alternative energy source?

Great Idea! I'm gonna drop some mentos and coke into my car's fuel tank. I will get back to you guys to report.

new monitor please. this one died in a fountain of coffee.

Mister Awesome: God help us if Diet Coke Lake Dam ever breaks and floods the Mentos Forest

Beautiful.

ironic_followup:

new monitor please. this one died in a fountain of coffee.

Did you drop mentos in the coffee?

So we cured cancer then? Good to know we can move on to other things.

What the fark?

Experiments in a 2006 edition of the Discovery Channel programme Mythbusters suggested the chemicals responsible for the reaction are gum arabic and gelatine in the sweets, and caffeine, potassium benzoate and aspartame in the Coke.

and then later:

"Water molecules like to be next to other water molecules, so basically anything that you drop into the soda that disrupts the network of water molecules can act as a growth site for bubbles," Coffey told New Scientist. "And if you have rough candy with a high ratio of surface area to volume, then there's more places for the bubbles to go."

That's EXACTLY what Mythbusters said back in 2006. Nucleation points on the rough candy surface is what the Mythbusters episode came up with. God damn, at least when Ric Romero does a story he gets the blindingly obvious right instead of wrong.

Oh. That kind of coke. Carry on.

Did anyone noticed this on the second page?

As usual, Adam and Jamie were there first.

"Professer"?

Mythbusters had every part of this explanation except for the part about the water tension.

I missed the part about it being "dangerous".

TFA: Experiments in a 2006 edition of the Discovery Channel programme Mythbusters suggested...

Mythbusters couldn't perform a scientifically objective experiment if they were given a picture-book on how to do it. Any weight your article might have had is now gone.

no posts regarding the amusement of a misspell in a snidely intellectually-snooty headline?

It's Profescor, idiot.

Funny, I was just thinking about that episode yesterday, but I didn't think about this when I saw it. They showed that there isn't enough gas/pressure to burst a stomach. But what if you had mentos and coke in your mouth, and managed to keep your mouth shut?

could there be enough pressure to damage your esophagus, or would it just come out of your nose?

Diet Coke and Mentos are bad mmkay...like really, really bad mmmmkaayy.

wmoonfox: TFA: Experiments in a 2006 edition of the Discovery Channel programme Mythbusters suggested...

Mythbusters couldn't perform a scientifically objective experiment if they were given a picture-book on how to do it. Any weight your article might have had is now gone.

Jeez, dude - bitter much? Let it go.

Mythbusters claimed the gum arabic was important, and they say it's because it's a surfactant, which makes sense. This article was informative, I wouldn't call it a Romero because they are not telling us what mentos does, just explaining it better.

Still waiting for scientifically rigorous explanations of "Will it take off?" image macros. There's the tried and true airplane on a treadmill. But equally interesting is the helicopter on a turntable.

I eat my candy with the pork and beans.

Too bored of TFA to read further, but does it caution one to not chug a bottle of Diet Coke, then snarf a whole package of Mentos?

/Try dry ice in an empty plastic pop bottle, fill with water, cap, and run far away...BOOM!!!

Animatronik: just explaining it better.

Better than the Mythbusters explained it?

I think not!

This article claimed to have a scientific explanation, which is something the Mythbusters didn't give. They gave some great theories, and I'm a hardcore MB fan... but I was expecting this article, from the headline, to give better information.

It did not.

It misrepresented the situation - anyone who doesn't follow MB will think they didn't say EXACTLY THAT THIS ARTICLE SAID.

So if this article is "scientific", so are the MythBusters... it revealed nothing new. Or, at least, so little new that the headline makes it ridiculous, or they shouldn't have tried to imply that this wasn't pretty much exactly what the MythBusters came up with....... In other words, they screwed up at least someplace, no matter what your stance on the various details.

N. S. Sherlock..

I see what you did there

note: not attacking Animatronik, just irritated by the article...

Ow My Balls:
/Try dry ice in an empty plastic pop bottle, fill with water, cap, and run far away...BOOM!!!

I remember when the Mythbusters did that with some other stuff in the mentos episode. Anyone recall the Marge Simpson-type stack of methane bubbles they did as well?

/Mmmm flammable.

No pictures of Kari Byron?

You people suck!





/ just like Duke

The X-1 cruise Mentos tablet, dropped into the sea:

studebaker hoch: The X-1 cruise Mentos tablet, dropped into the sea:

My God...the power. What is that, like a 5 or 6 megaton Mentos yield?

What would be interesting to see is if you could develop a candy and a pop that would make the reaction even more violent.

Obviously don't watch these guys.



/Kari Byron is totally hot.

DRTFA, but I assume it mentions the fact that the diet part works much better than general soft drinks?

wmoonfox: TFA: Experiments in a 2006 edition of the Discovery Channel programme Mythbusters suggested...

Mythbusters couldn't perform a scientifically objective experiment if they were given a picture-book on how to do it. Any weight your article might have had is now gone.

You're an idiot and obviously never watched the show.

mentos and coke will no longer be sold at airports...

wmoonfox: Mythbusters couldn't perform a scientifically objective experiment if they were given a picture-book on how to do it. Any weight your article might have had is now gone.

Someone's still pissy about getting owned in the plane-treadmill takeoff.

We were doing this with sugar years ago. We'd wait until my friend's mom's 2-liter was halfway down and dump a little sugar in it and then re-close it and put it back in the fridge. Then, about 10-15 minutes later, it would explode inside the fridge. She stopped buying diet coke after a while.

AFAIK, sugar doesn't have any gum arabic in it...so maybe that's not so important.

True MB does not get into the full scientific way of why things work, but what they do is show what could/did/could not happen and give a general idea if why/why not.

The show is for ENTERTAINMENT, and it is not on the science channel it is on Discovery,besides that they are NOT scientists nor do they claim to be, they are FX people.


If you want more go to your local library

ssrat: If you want more go to your local library

Or post a snarky quip on Fark complaining about how NOTHING lives up to your immaculate scientific standards.

Ikronix: wmoonfox: Mythbusters couldn't perform a scientifically objective experiment if they were given a picture-book on how to do it. Any weight your article might have had is now gone.

Someone's still pissy about getting owned in the plane-treadmill takeoff.

I still have flashbacks to online forum posts by douche-bags talking about treadmills with an infinite speed and instant acceleration capability. Good times.

Water molecules like to be next to other water molecules

I'm not sure why, but scientists describing molecules and atoms as 'liking' and 'wanting' along with a dozen other words that you shouldn't attribute to inanimate objects has pissed me off since I was a kid. My entire Junior High physics and chemistry experiences were ruined by textbooks and teachers trying to describe science in 'easy to understand terms' that only served to make it 100x more confusing than it already is at that age.

I'm still waiting for the vids of kids drinking coke and then popping menthos.