Record-breaking Mentos and coke explosions

[bicentennial_baby]

It was to be one of the biggest science experiments ever seen yet there was not a bunson burner or test tube in sight.

Around 1,500 students kitted out in waterproof ponchos discovered exactly what happens when you drop a mint sweet into a bottle of Coca Cola, in an attempt to break a world record





:D


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/23/ncoke123.xml

[Sequoia]

1. I had no idea !!

Cool.

[Critters2]

14. Yep.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hKoB0MHVBvM&feature=related

(not a rickroll, promise!)

[many a good man]

2. OMIGOD that is SOOOO beautiful!!!

My life has been enriched beyond description....

[Bucky]

3. Fucking cults

Not just brain washed, but actually brain-fizzled. And then sticky afterwards.

[hvn_nbr_2]

11. Exactly what I thought. The blue-hooded raincoat cult.

Kansas Board of Education, take note: we demand equal treatment.

[DS1]

4. meh

Records for "most people to do one thing at once" are a joke.

[bicentennial_baby]

5. Shaddap you...I just like the pictures

x(

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. I love it, but all I see is a worthless waste of resources.

Or, I suppose, resourses.

All the plastic from the bottles, the wasted food (not that soda or mentos are much of a food, but they do count), all those rainjackets that will be used that once and then likely landfilled, the Mentos wrappers...)

[DS1]

7. but nooooo! Everyone's got to stop their normal coke and mentos consumption

so some economics nerd near Boston can get a cheap internet thrill :eyes:

[bicentennial_baby]

9. You're mean

x(

[bicentennial_baby]

8. Agreed, but...c'mon, this is the Lounge!

x(

I'm sorry, I'm in a crappy mood this evening. Blah.

:hi: Hope you are well.

[AlCzervik]

10. the ants must have swarmed after that.

fun and super sticky.

[madeline_con]

12. It has to be Diet Coke, not regular. n/t

[MilesColtrane]

13. I didn't realize that students were allowed to start Peter North fan clubs.

[Duer 157099]

15. Is that like the biggest circle jerk you ever saw?

OK, it's not a circle, but still.

Or is it just my dirty mind that sees these things? :evilgrin: