Do those mentos and diet coke geisures have enough powrer to launch the bottle like a rocket?
by Heather Smith on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 | 5 Comments
I want to set up some bottles on a stick in the ground like a real rocket. Not like stuff I saw of some people throwing the bottles on the ground.Any ideas to help would be appreciated. One opsticlle I see is I want the mentos underneathe the soda instead of the other way around to direct the blast downward. And how could I seal the soda from the top (neck) of an upside down bottle and quick release? If I hange some bottles sideways from a string, and the string is tied to the top of a pole and the pole is stuck in the ground… When the mentos is let in will it spin like a pinwheel? Any other ideas?
Mythbusters has great info on this:
http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-mythbustersmentos,0,4325641.story
Mythbusters has great info on this:
http://www.zap2it.com/tv/news/zap-mythbustersmentos,0,4325641.story
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Using that combination actually generates enough pressure to launch a person if you use enough bottles of coke and mentos
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Watch the Mythbusters episode when they try it. There’s not enough thrust to hurl the bottle upwards.
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If you can figure out a way of putting the mentos in the bottles of coke without pouring all the coke onto the ground, you won’t have enough power to make it even spin on the string you’ve tied it to the pole with.
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Nope. If you use a single bottle, it won’t get off the ground, it’ll just fall over. You might be able to strap a whole bunch together, but if it’s upside-down the force probably won’t go the desired direction.
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