Comments on: The Fizzmaker

The Fizzmaker

empath — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:09:17 -0800

101 Two Liters of Diet Coke. 523 Mentos.

By: Justinian

Justinian — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:11:11 -0800

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at eepybird.com! Excellent.

By: graventy

graventy — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:11:57 -0800

Aww. Server dead. :( And here I was all curious.

By: Nedroid

Nedroid — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:11:59 -0800

404 Error.

By: empath

empath — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:12:33 -0800

YouTube version if anyone can't get to that.

By: empath

empath — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:13:14 -0800

Sorry, I should have assumed digg would kill the original link.

By: Onanist

Onanist — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:17:45 -0800

Wow, that was really cool!

By: smackfu

smackfu — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:24:29 -0800

That's brilliant. It's like the Bellagio of diet coke.

By: I Foody

I Foody — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:24:48 -0800

Is it a recent breakthrough that diet coke and mentos cause a vinegar and baking soda reaction? A couple weeks ago maybe 10 videos in google video's top 100 were diet coke and mentos.

By: stavrogin

stavrogin — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:27:23 -0800

An NPR story about it.

By: maryh

maryh — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:33:52 -0800

Charming & nicely done. Although that patch of parkland probably won't be able to support any life at all for several generations.... Okay, maybe giant mutant ants...

By: blacklite

blacklite — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:41:03 -0800

Wow, NPR can make anything sound so impossibly boring.

By: dbiedny

dbiedny — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:45:32 -0800

Sublime. Hysterical. Thnx!

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:46:34 -0800

More up my alley, chemical-reaction wise...

By: kosher_jenny

kosher_jenny — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:52:18 -0800

Time to re-write some urban legends, methinks. That was awesome. And just in time for summer too! I think this would be fun to try on a hot summer day with some friends.

By: Faint of Butt

Faint of Butt — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:09:44 -0800

Time to re-write some urban legends, methinks. Did you know that the little girl from the Welch's grape juice commercials died from drinking Diet Coke with Mentos?

By: Busithoth

Busithoth — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:15:45 -0800

faint of butt, I don't care how she died, but what a smile that brings to my face. she gave me nightmares.

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:17:48 -0800

Good thing it was diet coke, otherwise everything within a 50 foot radius would be sticky for the next year or so...

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:28:54 -0800

How is this even an experiment? Where's the control? What's the dependant variable? They didn't even present a hypothesis, for chrissakes! Somehow I don't think this will pass peer review.

By: msjen

msjen — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:38:13 -0800

Diet Coke performance art makes me truly happy. Thanks empath.

By: Relay

Relay — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:57:13 -0800

It's like the Bellagio of diet coke. That's EXACTLY what I thought, smackfu.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:00:04 -0800

Awesome, awesome, awesome.

By: Orange Goblin

Orange Goblin — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:12:42 -0800

How were they doing the time controlled stuff? Like the little jets, I assume its a one time only thing, or can you keep dropping the Mentos for extra jets? And why just Diet Coke? Has anyone ever tried say, Fanta and Polos, to see what would happen?

By: MrBobaFett

MrBobaFett — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:15:02 -0800

That was very Blue Man...

By: bwg

bwg — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:21:22 -0800

Awesome, awesome, awesome. And fun, fun, fun!

By: reklaw

reklaw — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:22:06 -0800

Another day, another Coke/Mentos video.

By: delfuego

delfuego — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:24:37 -0800

I love this. These guys are awesome; some of the outakes on the EepyBird website are fabulous.

By: Hildegarde

Hildegarde — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:25:13 -0800

That was fantastic. I want to do it now too. I wish I could buy the mp3 off itunes, too.

By: briank

briank — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:39:48 -0800

[this is good]

By: Eekacat

Eekacat — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:42:52 -0800

Kinda cool they link to the AskMetafilter discussion regarding this too.

By: rob511

rob511 — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:54:05 -0800

Mentos — the FreshetMaker™

By: dw

dw — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:54:36 -0800

Did you know that the little girl from the Welch's grape juice commercials died from drinking Diet Coke with Mentos? I thought she died after making out with Mikey from the Life Cereal commercials. She was run over by the woman with the really small car in the Mentos commerical.

By: empath

empath — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:02:41 -0800

In case your wondering what would happen if you drink pepsi and follow it up with mentos.

By: kyleg

kyleg — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:06:47 -0800

That was really cool.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:10:45 -0800

Brilliant.

By: SPrintF

SPrintF — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:15:07 -0800

Good news, everyone! Your next assignment is to deliver this crate of Mentos to Cokulon IV, the "Diet Planet." /farnsworth

By: Mach5

Mach5 — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:20:18 -0800

Watch out though, by mixing it in your stomach bad things can happen.

By: Mach5

Mach5 — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:21:40 -0800

damn, empath beat me *shakes fist*

By: kosher_jenny

kosher_jenny — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:27:22 -0800

How were they doing the time controlled stuff? Like the little jets, I assume its a one time only thing, or can you keep dropping the Mentos for extra jets? It looked like they had rigged something up using the bottlecaps. When the big jets from the side of the screen came up I just assumed they had people off camera doing it, but on a second viewing I noticed them yanking a cord that (I assume) connected to more diet coke bottles. So I guess they worked out some sort of grenade-like system.

By: delfuego

delfuego — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:42:54 -0800

Mach5: damn, empath beat me That's why the preview button exists, Mach5, that's why the preview button exists. Of course, you used it, saw that empath posted the link, and still posted it again... fascinating.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:46:49 -0800

Very nice. I saw a video the other day that was a tasteless and stupid compilation of mentos/coke rockets, and thought it was all over. Then I saw this, and learned that a couple of cool, smart guys can make an excellent video of the stuff, even if the music kinda bugged me. Thanks a lot!

By: squirrel

squirrel — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 17:54:35 -0800

Well enjoyed.

By: peacay

peacay — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 18:27:43 -0800

101 bottles, 523 mentos - that was to make the film. I wonder how many they went through choreographing it all. Excellently banal and wasteful, thanks.

By: The Monkey

The Monkey — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 18:40:17 -0800

That was awesome. Pepsi Girl cracked me up as well.

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 18:42:23 -0800

So, really, what happens if you mix them in your mouth? Is it dangerous, or just sort of ultra-fizz? Or is there too little liquid for an effect?

By: dgaicun

dgaicun — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 18:43:15 -0800

Pepsi Girl was the unhottest voice on a hot girl ever.

By: arcticwoman

arcticwoman — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 19:21:14 -0800

Well done.

By: sindark

sindark — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 19:53:04 -0800

An explanation is available on this site. It reads, in part: "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. You can see a similar effect when cooking potatoes or pasta are lowered into a pot of boiling water. The water will sometimes boil over because organic materials that leach out of the cooking potatoes or pasta disrupt the tight mesh of water molecules at the surface of the water, making it easier for bubbles and foam to form."

By: BaxterG4

BaxterG4 — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 20:24:52 -0800

I was hoping it was 523 Mentos dropped all at once into a vat of 202 liters of Diet Coke, personally.

By: empath

empath — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 20:41:43 -0800

Baxter, that's what I expected it to be, too. A later experiment, perhaps.

By: Ryvar

Ryvar — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 21:13:20 -0800

Pepsi Girl was the unhottest voice on a hot girl ever. posted by dgaicun Are you sure you don't have that backwards? I mean, it's a kickass British accent on a girl that needs to lose about 30 pou-*drowned out in a wave of feminist anger*

By: BoringPostcards

BoringPostcards — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 22:20:48 -0800

Meanwhile, kids in Atlanta are dying of thirst! (That was extremely cool... thanks, empath.)

By: SeizeTheDay

SeizeTheDay — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 22:41:12 -0800

This is the best of the web. Thanks.

By: devetron

devetron — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 22:51:21 -0800

It's my guess that nothing will grow on those grounds for at least 200 years now.

By: Parannoyed

Parannoyed — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 22:55:05 -0800

seriously, I want to see the giant vat of diet coke and a 5-gallon bucket of mentos dumped in. As cool as this was, THAT would make my effing week... or at least a glass carboy of diet coke and a whole roll...hmm...

By: shoepal

shoepal — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 23:16:15 -0800

Bob & Doug McKenzie are just the guys for the vat version.

By: wumpus

wumpus — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 23:27:06 -0800

i heard the little pepsi girl and the welch's grape juice girl died while practising perverted sexual acts on each other involving mentos anal beads and diet coke enemas, in old-growth parkland. When their chubby little bodies ruptured, spewing toxic aspartame over a 100m diameter, all the grass and flowers burned, and trees there have developed putrid tumorous growths. I could be wrong about the diameter explosion though.

By: redteam

redteam — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:36:56 -0800

Wow, those guys are like kings!

By: willlangford

willlangford — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 01:24:05 -0800

holy sweet! ive that on a small scale...but that is awesome!

By: Cyrano

Cyrano — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 04:44:15 -0800

Way cool. Thanks.

By: Scoo

Scoo — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 05:43:45 -0800

Pepsi Girl was the unhottest voice on a hot girl ever. posted by dgaicun Are you sure you don't have that backwards? I mean, it's a kickass British accent on a girl that needs to lose about 30 pou-*drowned out in a wave of feminist anger* posted by Ryvar Sorry, you're both wrong, the correct answer is C: Yum! More curvy UK hotties for me! RrrrOOOWWWRRrr!

By: RokkitNite

RokkitNite — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 05:46:48 -0800

Did they pierce holes in the lids to get jets that high?

By: wfc123

wfc123 — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 07:16:28 -0800

That was very Blue Man... No wonder I found it unamusing. "Hi, we're all painted blue-- so every banal, mundane thing we do seems hysterically funny."

By: caddis

caddis — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 07:37:56 -0800

Now that's the way to post a video to the front page. Awesome!

By: theora55

theora55 — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 08:48:57 -0800

This is why I love the intarwebs. Fabulous post.

By: greycap

greycap — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:23:08 -0800

This reminded so much of a firework display - the guys running around letting the mentos drop were a bit like people milling around roman candles and catherine wheels on Bonfire Night. Fantastic stuff.

By: amro

amro — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:41:17 -0800

Best of the web!

By: dirtynumbangelboy

dirtynumbangelboy — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:55:15 -0800

empath writes "In case your wondering what would happen if you drink pepsi and follow it up with mentos." That was fucking awesome. I actually lol'ed.

By: switchsonic

switchsonic — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 16:35:21 -0800

So, if I read the explanation link provided by sindark correctly, is the concept behind the Mentos/Pepsi reaction the same idea as the Guinness Draught Widget? It seems very similar except for the intensity of the reaction. Cool.

By: virga

virga — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 19:41:58 -0800

that was so cool!

By: quite unimportant

quite unimportant — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 03:30:57 -0800

is the concept behind the Mentos/Pepsi reaction the same idea as the Guinness Draught Widget? No. The GDW is a capsule of pressurized nitrogen that releases the gas once the can/bottle is opened and the internal pressure of the widget becomes greater than the external pressure on the beer.