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- knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -6/+58"Breaking news this hour; two scientists are eaten alive by billions of ants."
- Cosmosis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+49Mirror:
http://dl.us.xferla.net:8090/mirror/eepybird.com/13970.mov - reaver, on 10/12/2007, -0/+40Diet Coke and Mentos should team up and make a commercial like this.
- JeffP, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41i've seen videos of this stuff on the internet before, but these guys recreate the bellagio fountains with it...
- wet_napkin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+34You Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wHx9pSqbjQ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33And with zero calories, no less.
- MikeCampo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+32Someone needs to put the coke in a giant container and just pour in buckets of mentos.
- jhofman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22This one is in a category of it's own. This is art. Diggity-digg-digg-DUGG!
- bolero421, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19The mentos lower the gas solubility in the solution (diet coke), causing the dissolved CO2 to be forced out of the solution and form bubbles. The speed of this reaction is rapid, resulting in a high percentage of the CO2 in the solution trying to escape in a short period of time. Because gaseous CO2 exerts more pressure (it takes up a greater volume per mole) than dissolved CO2, the pressure in the bottle increases dramatically and diet coke / CO2 is forced out of the open top of the bottle.
So in short, yes, it is a chemical reaction that starts the process; the rest is physics. - Hermitwise, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19The Ants in that general area must be building statues in worship of those two guys.
- noliberalbull, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16thats what i was expecting with this... but wow
- zirtbow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14I was hyped up for a giant explosion where they dropped all 500 in the 200 liters all at once. I suppose the fountian effect is nice as well but a giant boom would have been much more intesting.
- shiftt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14that video was one of the best I've seen in a while. very creative. and whoever picked the music deserves credit
- Nighthawke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I toast the men that put that little show together.... But not with Diet Coke! :p
One thing I wonder about.. Is how in the world they managed to get that many cases of Mentos and Cokes past the checkout without the store clerks wondering.. - qwisp, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14nice music too.
- aquax, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Is There A Reason You Capitalize Every Word In Your Comments?
- fatlip, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12you know how people do some really stupid things? i'm going to swallow a few mentos and drink some diet coke.. see if i throw up
i'll let y'all know what happens - nathanmock, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13http://media.revver.com/broadcast/27335/video.mov/13970
Direct link to the video. - Kazanoe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11maybe if your luckey, you'll get to work for one of them someday
it'd be a learning experiance, I'm sure - Zopmaz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I have a question:
What causes that realy big reaction? Is it chemical? How much is in the diet coke and mentos?
Sorry, but I never got it.
Lol, the movie is awesome. I wonder how much all that cost. - wweasel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I was curious too Zopmaz. See this link for full details: http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000109
This is quoted:
Water molecules strongly attract each other, linking together to form a tight mesh around each bubble of carbon dioxide gas in the soda. In order to form a new bubble, or even to expand a bubble that has already formed, water molecules must push away from each other. It takes extra energy to break this "surface tension." In other words, water "resists" the expansion of bubbles in the soda.
When you drop the Mentos into the soda, the gelatin and gum arabic from the dissolving candy break the surface tension. This disrupts the water mesh, so that it takes less work to expand and form new bubbles. Each Mentos candy has thousands of tiny pits all over the surface. These tiny pits are called nucleation sites - perfect places for carbon dioxide bubbles to form. As soon as the Mentos hit the soda, bubbles form all over the surface of the candy. Couple this with the fact that the Mentos candies are heavy and sink to the bottom of the bottle and you've got a double-whammy. When all this gas is released, it literally pushes all of the liquid up and out of the bottle in an incredible soda blast. - combatchuck, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9http://www.wimp.com/myth/
- fatlip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7no sugar, no sticky =D
- rbvmusic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7What's the fun in that it'll just foam like crazy.
Now get a big container and put a lid on top and now your talking. - Area51mafia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7@zillax0rz
A pool and a few hundred dollars. ;) - lonepie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8diet coke != good soda
- cavadela, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7decades later, archaeologists were still puzzled on why that specific spot on earth was so sticky and smelled like caramel...
- sogracefully, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7they just use diet coke because it isn't sticky when it dries, like coke, because there's no sugar. (:
- gildude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Diet coke is not sticky. Soda is only sticky when it has sugar in it. Nutrasweet is not sticky.
- Bleu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Only if you added force. Like if you put a couple in, capped it, and then threw it on the ground.
Link to an example-->http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5695044769427318137 - mutt2jeff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5LOL, who needs fireworks this 4th of July?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5If someone smarter than me can detail for me a good method to do this, I'll do it next weekend and film it for Digg.
- herbstwerk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5it was diet coke... but yeah, anything else would have been a waste
- muaddib420, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5this just goes to show how much free time and money we have in our society
- aeiou, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I think diet coke is sweetened with splenda now, unless they went back to NutraSweet. Probably still the same though, ants probably don't like splenda as much.... although it is "made from sugar, so it tastes like surgar."
- fibber, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Except ants don't really like NutraSweet... or mints for that matter.
- Robinh66, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3See? Science is totally Airwolf!
- catullus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i MUST ask: what song is that, does anyone know?
- ideefix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5219491254252119798
- dhuck, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@fool
i think the trick is in the width of the hole at the top ... a smaller hole will allow the coke to flow out at a higher pressure, going higher into the air.
just a theory though, i might be wrong... - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3They probably invited them to the show.
- spam4jan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I was imagining the same thing, drats, but this was good too.
ps - don't tell the terrorists!! can you image the news headlines when the pentagon is blown up by a suicide bomber driving a tanker full of diet coke filled with a few hundred pounds of mentos. - jayKayEss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You need a small nozzle though to make it really squirt...
- foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Dammit. I never get that huge a reaction.
Did they do anything special to get that huge a reaction? Mine usually only goes some 4 or 5 inches off the top. With brand new Regular Non-Diet Coke with 4 or 5 mentos popped in.
Does the Diet part give it a higher reaction? - kristianlee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The mirror: http://www.duggmirror.com/links/The_Extreme_Diet_Coke_Mentos_Experiment/
That was awesome. +1 Digg. - redsox59, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Here's the music artist's site http://audiobody.com/
- Bleu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree, WTF?
Weird. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2check your can, its still aspartame
- Adem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well try it and find out. Oh, and video yourself while your at it, it would be a worthy watch.
Best yet, im sure you would be dugg to the front page - splatnik, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why's this suddenly a buried story? WTF?
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