Sunday, March 15, 2009

Diet Coke + Mentos = Fluid Explosion

The CO2 in my Diet Coke chemically interacts with my Mentos to create a cascading effect in the fluid that my face happens to intercept.
I was thirsty so I decided to leap for a drink before the cascade ended.

Flying across the frame I came to a crashing finish in the melting snow.


Call me crazy, not because I'm getting wet for this photo, but because I don't even like Diet Coke!



An uppercut of Diet Coke to my chin leaves me wondering what is happening inside my head that led to me to this photo.

5 comments:

  1. Absolutely hilarious!! I would have never thought to do this.

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  2. Nicely done. The one where you're just about parallel with the horizon made me laugh something awful. It looks as if you were feverishly trying to get a drink of soda before itexploded but came up just short.

    In the second photo some of the globs of foaming soda form a square shape. Nifty.

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  3. awesome shots! how many mentos and diet cokes did you go through? haha

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  4. I purchased 6 Diet Cokes originally and then, since 2 of them were duds since mentos got caught and all they did is spray out, I went back and got 4 more (so 10 total). I went through about 5 to 10 Mentos per bottle. Total Cost to Me: Around $20 (That's me, money to burn)

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  5. I made an image-meme off one of your pics above, thought you might get a chuckle:

    http://i.imgur.com/dq43E.jpg

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