Youtube Mania !

Ahoy there sailors,

As many of you might already know :

YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips.
According to me, You Tube and many such similar websites play a great role in the virtual transition from Web1.0 to Web2.0. You can now in a way, truly “Broadcast Yourslef” in this so called “Video Blogsphere” : You Tube.

A significant question to be asked at this point would be:

What is You Tube for YOU ?

In my forthcoming segments, I will be commenting upon some of the videos uploaded on You Tube which I find to be extremely amusing and sarcastic to some extent.

Diet Coke & Mentos Experiments

You might wonder why I would find a video about Diet Coke and Mentos to be amusing. It might become a lot clearer after you watch the video below:

A Diet Coke and Mentos eruption (also known as a Mentos eruption, soda geyser or just Diet Coke and Mentos) is a reaction between Mentos candy and cola. The experiment involves dropping several Mentos candies (usually 5–8) into a bottle of diet cola, (note: normal cola can still be used), resulting in an eruption occurring because of rapidly expanding carbon dioxide bubbles on the surface of the Mentos.

According to our friend Wikipedia :
“When Mentos are dropped into soda, the gellan gum and gum arabic of the candy dissolves and breaks the surface tension. This disturbs the water connection, so that it takes less work to expand and form new bubbles. Each Mentos candy has thousands of tiny pores all over its surface. These tiny pores function as nucleation sites, perfect places for carbon dioxide bubbles to form. As soon as the Mentos enter the soda, bubbles form all over their surface. They quickly sink to the bottom, causing carbon dioxide to be released by the carbonated liquid with which they come into contact along the way. The sudden increase in pressure pushes all of the liquid up and out of the bottle.”

Unless you are a “Chemistry nerd” , Ye probably have no idea so as to what the above paragraph meant, Since I think that I am an understanding being,

Thy answer lies below :

This guy must have some nuts to go ahead and try the “Diet Coke & Mentos” experiment with a new twist i.e.-on himself??!@#!!!. -->

1)He starts up by eating like 8-9 mentos candies from a pack.

2)He then wonders what will happen if he drinks some diet coke after that(In my opinion, that is a huge ass “wonder”).

3)He states that “they”(they probably points out the people who have been past “victims” of similar experiments..haha!) think that something sick will happen after he drinks the diet coke. However, he thinks that nothing is going to happen at all. (you should have thought again my bald friend).

4)He opens up the sealed bottle of diet coke. The camera-man thinks that hes going to vomit, baldie thinks that he won’t. He goes ahead and drinks some diet coke from the bottle and guess what happens ?..........(so it was a huge ass “wonder” indeed).

5)Cokemit (Coke + Vomit = Cokemit) erupts from his mouth …Camera-man,”DEAR GOD!!!!!). He leans against his garage door and says that some thing about his “throat”(that something surely isn’t good!). He says that his legs are numb or something.

6) He thinks that he feels alright, only to drop down panting on the ground and saying,"I don't think that this is going so well".

If you think that video was fake(I did believe so at first), Why don’t you grab a bottle of diet coke and try putting in some Mentos in it.(and do back off after that !!).

CONCLUSION : I WILL NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.

*EDIT*09/16/2007*20:58*

This is in context to Anon's comment.

The Video is fake and heres the video in which the same guy explains what happened and offers his apologies.

.....NOT!

These guys tried to take it to another level haha :

This is so cool!. These guys tried to create a domino effect using the Diet Coke + Mentos Experiment:

Over the last two years or so, producing similar types of reactions has become a popular science experiment and an Internet meme, with videos of Mentos eruptions and even Mentos performance art pieces being posted on sites like Google Video and YouTube.

Lastly,

If some boilers were wondering, the Boiler Markets do sell mentos(any mint should work for that matter) and Diet coke.

Until we meet again

Peace,
highAgain~