Boom!

Jul. 22nd, 2003 02:25 pm
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Today's Fun Science Fact (clip and save!):

A can of Diet Coke, if dropped from approximately chest-level, will, in fact, explode, and with surprising force.

Try this at home! (Of course, if you do, I suggest you own a mop. Which I don't.)

Date: 2003-07-22 02:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwywnnydd.livejournal.com
I've learned (many years ago, but still) that a brand new plastic 2 liter of Coke, held in the hand with the arm extended towards the floor, will also explode if dropped, but only if it's held and dropped by C. Konker.
Otherwise, it just roils up the contents.

2 liters of fluid makes a huge sticky mess . . .

Date: 2003-07-22 02:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icebluenothing.livejournal.com
.... whereas a single can crates a sticky mess equal to exactly nine (9) paper towels.

We must collaborate and publish our findings sometime.

Date: 2003-07-22 03:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gwywnnydd.livejournal.com
At least a single can creates a finite mess. We kept finding evidence of teh explosion in bizarre crevices of the kitchen for months afterwards . . .

I agree. I haven't published anything yet, so I'm behind the curve ;).

Date: 2003-07-22 03:25 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rocza.livejournal.com
kept finding evidence of teh explosion in bizarre crevices of the kitchen for months afterwards

Heh. Try leaving an Odwalla bottle, empty with cap on, in a hot apartment for the weekend while your gone.

I was still finding... residue... from the blast two years later, when I moved out.

Date: 2003-07-22 06:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wendolen.livejournal.com
If a can of Diet Coke left a sticky mess, I'm kinda concerned about the condition of the floor it was dropped on. :)

Date: 2003-07-22 03:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] m-cobweb.livejournal.com
I got to watch a small child being chided by his mother for bouncing a two-liter bottle of pop in the grocery store. "That's going to explode," she said. He bounced it a couple more times, and then--kerplooey. Heh.

Date: 2003-07-22 03:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] imsosquare.livejournal.com
I LURVE YOU, Six!

Date: 2003-07-22 04:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] icprncs.livejournal.com
It depends on the chest level of the person dropping it. And on the angle of impact, and the surface upon which it lands.

Yes, I *have* put a great deal of research into this. Not necessarily intentionally.

also..

Date: 2003-07-22 10:43 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tmib.livejournal.com

If you hollow out a pumpkin, and then stuff it with cans of Safeway Select Strawberry Soda, then put the pumpkin "lid" back on, you can shoot it with a 12-gauge shotgun for a cool "foaming chest wound" effect.

This was the same day we figured out that if you just barely nick a shaving cream can with a .223 round from an AR-15, it'll shoot foam about 5 feet in the air.

Don't get me started on the starter fluid/sterno/AR-15 combinations...

Less mess more effect

Date: 2003-07-23 01:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] monotmoe.livejournal.com
Where as if you were to just replace all the antena balls on parking lot vehicles with easter Peeps, you could seriously f*!k with someone's head.

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