Combating boredom with my 20D, Diet Coke and Mentos

[S Taylor]

You all may have seen the videos on the net by now, but you can drop Mentos into soda and create your own soda geyser. :D During some of my vacation down time, I got the 20D out, set it to .jpg large and had my son hold the cable shutter release button to capture the explosive coke eruption at 5 frames per second, lol. It's not much but figure I would share my experience.

Used my 70-200 f/2.8L from about 20 yards away... 1/3200 @ f/2.8 ISO 100 70mm

Silly stuff, but here it is...

http://www.stpics.com/dkm.html

Peace,
William

[jopfin]

Haha, thats freakin' awesome. Saw that little trick on my kids science channel program once, never tried it, now I HAVE to...............Joe

[Michaelmjc]

It's weird it does that, thats awesome though!

[Steve Parr]

Oh, I'm gonna' have to do that...

Steve

[ACDCROCKS]

so do I have to put a whol package of mentos in it to do it or one little thingy??? I would love to do this....

[sharksbite]

WAIT WAIT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU ARE CHEWING MENTOS AND DRINK SODA AT THE SAME TIME?!

[cdifoto]

WAIT WAIT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU ARE CHEWING MENTOS AND DRINK SODA AT THE SAME TIME?!

Try it and show us pics. :D

[sharksbite]

....but what if i won't be able to post them..?

[Michaelmjc]

If we dont hear from you again, we know what happens!:lol:

[john_ch]

LOL Can you get them in the UK ????

I wanna try it !!

[S Taylor]

WAIT WAIT WAIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT HAPPENS IF YOU ARE CHEWING MENTOS AND DRINK SODA AT THE SAME TIME?!

During my initial googling on this, I actually came across a forum where folks were discussing this. Apparently a couple of guys tried gulping lots of soda and immediately swallowed some mentos.... they claimed that a lot of foamy soady "came back up", but who knows... lol, I sure wouldn't want to try it.

Yeah rocks, drop a whole package of the Mentos into the 2 liter bottle to get the full eruption. It is actually cool to see happen. Diet Coke is recommended because it has less sugar and supposedly less sticky. Make sure you try it where you aren't worried about having to clean up afterwards.

good luck!!

William

[ACDCROCKS]

seems like a good prank on the teacher

[Balliolman]

What does this stuff do to your guts? What are Mentos?

[ACDCROCKS]

oh my... You never heard Mentos the Fresh Maker or something song?

[b16pwrdej1]

Wow....that is really cool. Definately going to have to try that some time this week.

[neil_r]

A lone voice from across the pond.....

What are Mentos ?

N

[PhotosGuy]

from about 20 yards away At first I thought you were kidding! :D

[Ronald S. Jr.]

Mentos...wow. I thought everyone knew what they were.

http://home.socal.rr.com/mentosfaq/

[john_ch]

For all the non US ppl and others that can't find Mentos

http://www.cybercandy.co.uk/aaasmt/

Oh and they have a huge stock of UK, US and candy/sweets from all over :D

[S Taylor]

At first I thought you were kidding! :D

hehe... I wanted to make dern sure I didn't get any coke spray anywhere NEAR my camera/lens.... it was very windy that day!

[floydianslip6]

THat's awesome!!! And I thought I had nothing to do today!

[sony23]

And you know what the diet drinks are made of, aspartamene

http://www.dorway.com/badnews.html#symptoms

read this article and you wont touch the stuff again.

Bruce

[Snafu]

haha

[sharksbite]

And you know what the diet drinks are made of, aspartamene

http://www.dorway.com/badnews.html#symptoms

read this article and you wont touch the stuff again.

i don't touch it cause it tastes gross! but i never knew it was bad for you.

[wu_wei0]

William, this is great! not sure what amazed me more, the geyser or your interpretive dance! Need to plug these into Imovie and make a clip! Would you give me permission to play with them??

IF anyone does this and gets good sequence shots like these (yes your dance is strongly encouraged!) I'd love to play with them PM me and I'll give you the email addy to send them to or tell me where you have them hosted.

LIke I should be doing something other than getting my courses ready.
ACDC--I'm lucky you aren't my student! or I hope you are not- what a surprise! I do enough interpretive dance in my lectures as it is. They don't need any more reason to laugh "with" me!! lol
I will be wary of all students bearing diet cokes from now on! ;)

~wu

[sony23]

i don't touch it cause it tastes gross! but i never knew it was bad for you.

Bad isnt the word for it, I lost a brother 2 months ago through it and now one of my other brothers hasnt got long now because of it.

Bruce

[S Taylor]

William, this is great! not sure what amazed me more, the geyser or your interpretive dance! Need to plug these into Imovie and make a clip! Would you give me permission to play with them??


haha, I suppose, just let me see your production first, lol.

I though the coke eruption might be quick... and I was surprised when it did go, but I suppose my jump backwards was a little more dramatic than needed... :lol: I just didn't want sticky diet coke spray all in my face :o

Have fun with 'em!

[S Taylor]

Bad isnt the word for it, I lost a brother 2 months ago through it and now one of my other brothers hasnt got long now because of it.

Bruce

Oh my, I'm so sorry to hear this Bruce, sorry for your loss. Since you mentioned this, what exactly happened? (if you don't care to discuss, I apologize)
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EDIT: Nevermind, the aspartame... sorry, I didn't realize you were the same poster previous. Again, sorry to hear of this.

Regards,
William

[wu_wei0]

haha, I suppose, just let me see your production first, lol.

I though the coke eruption might be quick... and I was surprised when it did go, but I suppose my jump backwards was a little more dramatic than needed... :lol: I just didn't want sticky diet coke spray all in my face :o

Have fun with 'em!

Thanks! When I get back to my campus office I'll play a little. wish there were more shots! Avoiding going in to work as long as I can. Tomorrow is a shooting day for me but will have to make an appearance later in the week.
~wu

[liza]

This is great! And exactly what I've been looking for in terms of a demonstration for my physical science class. We're studying chemical reactions, and this is perfect to illustrate the concept to the students. We were going to do Pop Rocks and Coke, but this is better. Thanks for the idea.