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Bellagio Fountains Recreated with Mentos and Coke
Trip writes "What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints? It's amazing and completely insane. The first part of this video demonstrates a simple geyser, and the second part shows just how extreme it can get. Over one hundred jets of soda fly into the air in less than three minutes. It's a hysterical and spectacular mint-powered version of the Bellagio Fountains in Las Vegas."
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Are people so lazy as to not be able to write their own review anymore? The entire article summary is lifted verbatim from the website w/o any attribution.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
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The trouble with using soda to do what the Bellagio fountains do is all that soda and mentos would be too expensive to use on a daily basis.
This experiment is edifying from a proof-of-concept viewpoint, but has little practical use at present.
In actually interesting news, here's a tidbit about the asteroid that that Japanese space probe landed on.
While the vidoe was viewable under the above conditions, thats all my browser could do. All my other pages became inaccessable, and all I could see after minimizing and restoring the browser was just the video. Once the video ended my browser returned to normal operation.
The placement of the comment modifiers on the right hand side of the screen is abundantly irritating. Now, instead of being able to tell a poster's intentions before I read the post I have to continualy flick my eyes all the way across my 20 inch monitor just to see if it's worth my time to read what may be a troll. For the love of god fix this.
When I saw all this waste, I was gonna say "Think of the starving children in Africa", but then I remembered that it was Diet Coke and Mentos, two substances that may have the appearance of food but are pretty close to having to carry warning labels about their health risks.
I posted this yesterday and it got promptly modded down to -1, TROLL. My Karma however is excellent and usually if slashdot notices me I get modded up. In fact, I have accrued in the past two weeks at least ten karma points which I can afford to spend on this issue if I have to. First of all, it's fairly obvious that the event itself is an advertisement in of itself. Of course there is the geek issue itself with 200 liters of diet coke blowing sky high but it is probably also another slow news day. But that is not what I wanted to tell people about.
If there is _anything_ you should know about Donald Rumsfeld and his (intimate) relationship to Diet Coke and Menthos, it's that besides ordering torture in Abu Ghraib (oh which he also did, he even wrote "Make sure this happens!" in handwriting on the orders), he was the CEO of the company that discovered and forced ASPARTAME into the market into thousands+ food products (both solid and liquid) past the FDA and objects and studies that show that Aspartame is potentially carcinogenic and certainly a neurotoxin (and not only when heated like when they put it into cookies etc. it turns into Methyl alcohol).
One fellow here on slashdot even got all excited about how safe Aspartame is but this time let's not get into that. Instead let's just keep in mind that Donald Rumsfeld the man that is calling the shots in Pentagon, brought us Aspartame to swallow pretty much whether we want or not (it's like I said in thousands of food items). Now that would be disturbing enough in itself but did you know that Donald Rumsfeld was also the CEO of the company that created the "Tamiflu" antivirus drug which governments world-wide are stockpiling against the impending bird-flu epidemic (where did that vanish to, the same place "SARS" went?) and HE IS PERSONALLY MAKING MILLIONS OF DOLLARS of it even now as you are reading this. Interesting enough here's what a German health officials had to say about Tamiflu: "Even though this drug has not been extensively tested, we are operating under the premise that it is effective".
So here's the article from yesterday:
"What happens when you combine 200 liters of Diet Coke and over 500 Mentos mints?"
You get amazing and insane amounts of Aspartame. Now people have been at it warning about Aspartame for years now (it's a poison that attacks nerve ends, when heated such as in baked products etc. it will decompose into methyl alcohol which is another strong neurotoxin)... don't just take my word for it, you're sitting in front of a computer connected to the internet. Look it up.
And while you're at it, in case you're wondering why I'm calling it the Donald Rumsfeld Aspartame Death Cocktail, well Aspartame was discovered in 1965 by James M. Schlatter, a chemist working for G.D. Searle & Company. Schlatter had synthesized aspartame in the course of producing an anti-ulcer drug candidate. He discovered its sweet taste serendipitously when he licked his finger, which had accidentally become contaminated with aspartame.
(taken from the Wikipeida Aspartame article)
Safety testing indicated aspartame may cause brain tumors in rats; as a result, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not approve its use as a food additive in the United States for many years. In 1980, the FDA convened a Public Board of Inquiry (PBOI) consisting of independent advisors charged with examining the purported relationship between aspartame and brain cancer. The PBOI concluded that aspartame does not cause brain damage, but it recommended against approving aspartame at that time, citing unanswered questions about cancer in laboratory rats. In 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan appointed as FDA commissioner Arthur Hull Hayes. Citing data from a single Japanese study that had not been available to the members of the PBOI, Hayes approved aspartame for use in dry goods. [1] In 1983 FDA further approved aspartame for use in carbonated beverages,