Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again - Gizmodo Comments

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

AUAnonymous — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:33:36 EDT

it's...it's beautiful! I need one of those cameras!

AUAnonymous

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

washwords — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:51:47 EDT

@MadOverlord: classic and beautifully filmed, madoverlord. You are talented my friend.

washwords

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

washwords — Tue, 06 May 2008 17:50:46 EDT

@bana: uhh, given that it's "blue danube" circa several HUNDRED years ago, I'm kinda thinking it's public domain. but great "recon" ;)

washwords

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

ps61318 — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:34:44 EDT

@PipeRifle: um, I believe, and I may be incorrect, but I'm pretty sure that this is not really a chemical reaction at all, but a physical one. The CO2 uses the many microscopic nooks and crannies on the surface of the Mentos as nucleation sites around which bubbles form from cavitation. Doesn't matter what the chemical composition of the surface is - if it shares that nookie-ness then it will exhibit the same behavior.

ps61318

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

ps61318 — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:30:25 EDT

@karmaghost: (sheepishly) Yeah, I saw it too.

ps61318

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

BulkHedd — Tue, 06 May 2008 13:00:33 EDT

I'd kind of like to see someone film dice stacking or cup stacking in super slow motion.

BulkHedd

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

rimplestultskin — Mon, 05 May 2008 18:19:58 EDT

holy hell in a diet coke bottle.

rimplestultskin

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

MadOverlord — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:23:38 EDT

@bazzers: About crediting the actual music, I just figured everyone would know it was The Blue Danube; same goes for the William Tell Overture in the other video (aka The Lone Ranger Theme). Plus I was a little tight on space...

@isaacws: A dry-ice pressure failure on a bottle would probably not be that interesting because it would fail so fast (the rupture would propagate very quickly), plus it would be dangerous to video.

I have a test video somewhere of dropping a brick on a flowerpot; the brittle failure of the pot takes 1 frame at 1200fps to propagate around the pot.

MadOverlord

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

isaacws — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:06:00 EDT

awsome. Yeah mentos or closed dry ice explosion would be cool.

isaacws

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

SigmundTheSeaMonster — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:58:54 EDT

Soda Pr0n.

SigmundTheSeaMonster

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

thegoonie — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:43:11 EDT

I want mentos in a timred release capsule in the bottle. Then close the bottle as tight as possible. joy

thegoonie

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

Optimus-Prime — Mon, 05 May 2008 10:28:00 EDT

I feel really bad admitted this but as cool as this is I couldn't help but be reminded of tubgirl. At least I haven't forgotten everything from college.

Optimus-Prime

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

bms — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:44:20 EDT

That actually is really cool. The first Mentos/Diet Coke video that I can say that about.

bms

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

discounteggroll — Mon, 05 May 2008 08:41:18 EDT

thar she blows!

discounteggroll

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

bazzers — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:49:33 EDT

Wonderful work. Question: is the beautiful music Johann Strauss' 1864 Blue Danube ( An der schönen blauen Donau), i.e. the piece used in the _2001: A Space Odyssey_ docking sequence? If so, odd of the Coke-Mentos filmmaker not crediting the composer (and instead crediting some production house which likely produced a recording 130+ years later)

bazzers

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

EdRocker — Mon, 05 May 2008 04:18:06 EDT

All the vids remind me of Peter North!

EdRocker

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

Bokusatsu_Tenshi — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:29:29 EDT

Nice... I really want that cam... but I dunno if I'd produce such awesome vids with it.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

minjae0810 — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:31:38 EDT

wow.. i want one of those too...

minjae0810

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

PlasmaMachine — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:10:43 EDT

That's how I look when my wife ++++End Transmission++++

PlasmaMachine

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

knyghtryda — Mon, 05 May 2008 00:05:43 EDT

I think its the music that pulls all this together. Makes everything more... majestic. But even without it its still pretty cool.

knyghtryda

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

Gadgetgirl — Sun, 04 May 2008 22:00:19 EDT

Two girls, a bottle of soda and Mentos

All I'm saying

Gadgetgirl

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

rochec — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:19:10 EDT

@karmaghost:

Actually, yes. Perhaps that means we are gay.

rochec

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

Gary_7vn — Sun, 04 May 2008 21:00:55 EDT

Super slo mo will never catch on in the pron industry. Two words: Ron Jeremy

Gary_7vn

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

Amiash Loves You — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:41:50 EDT

wow, i thought mythbuster gave me the answers, i was wrong.

Amiash Loves You

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

MadOverlord — Sun, 04 May 2008 20:35:25 EDT

@strider_mt2k: Nice yard in the background, too.

All credit for that goes to my wife, who is, as they say, very much the mistress of her domain.

@notatoad: the music is "buyout", which means you can use it in just about anything, such as background music, as many times as you want, you just can't resell it as the music alone.

MadOverlord

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

notatoad — Sun, 04 May 2008 19:53:37 EDT

@bana: or you could just grab a torrent. i think the idea is that $35 buys you a license to play that in your youtube video.

notatoad

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

rougheo — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:23:16 EDT

On the 3rd one, why the hell is the guy pulling away wasting the precious Mentos?? The stream would have been so much bigger! So lame...

rougheo

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

theMockingNoob — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:38:47 EDT

That. Was. So. Aw. Some.

theMockingNoob

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:33:34 EDT

@taciturnforsale:

Just what I was thinking. A 3 minute long cum shot sounds fantastic....

Oh and the video is fantastic....how do you make powered mentos? Freeze them first? They don't seem to work as well....

LindsayJoy's MBP is into S+M

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

strider_mt2k — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:33:25 EDT

Wow was that beautiful!
The best thing to watch after sitting back, work done, with a frosty glass of Lager.

Nice yard in the background, too.

strider_mt2k

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

oopl — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:31:32 EDT

sweet

oopl

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

papaguru — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:11:10 EDT

Loved the video.

Somehow, I think the Bolero by Ravel would have made for more appropriate music, though.

papaguru

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

taciturnforsale — Sun, 04 May 2008 16:07:02 EDT

HAPPY DIRTY HUMOR TIME !!!

why do i get the feeling the porn industry is going to see this video and think, "Hm, maybe it's time to invest in new equipment."

Ow, the artist things they'll do with that camera.

taciturnforsale

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

karmaghost — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:55:57 EDT

Anyone else notice in the video 2nd from the left, at about 44 seconds remaining, the giant wang and balls that form as the stream is dropping?

karmaghost

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

BoinK — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:44:44 EDT

@fastmike: The effect wouldn't be any different than say adding dry ice to water and tightening. The point at which the pressure makes the bottle burst doesn't change.

BoinK

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

Theophilus P. Wildebeeste — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:36:25 EDT

@fastmike: Mentos = Mintos, A chewable mint.

Theophilus P. Wildebeeste

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy! — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:25:46 EDT

I can't believe I smiled so much over this. Perfection in something so simple is what life is all about.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

Trowble (XBL/PSN) — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:18:01 EDT

That is the single most greatest video to have been conceived.

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

redkamel — Sun, 04 May 2008 15:14:35 EDT

mentos are these pills that improve your mentation and allow you to come up witty solutions to everyday conundrums. Like the time before a job interview when I sat on a freshly painted bench. I popped a mentos and ended up rolling on the bench to make the pattern even. Boss didnt even notice.

redkamel

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

GiltProto — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:40:04 EDT

@MadOverlord:
Next time the powdered plutonium might work better.

GiltProto

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

kzooguy — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:37:56 EDT

That was beautiful.

kzooguy

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

fastmike — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:32:16 EDT

Ok and thank you google

Imagine if you managed to screw the cap back on the bottle before the Mentos too affect ?

fastmike

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

fastmike — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:29:46 EDT

Impressive ...but may I ask What Mentos are ?

fastmike

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

sfokevin — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:22:53 EDT

"pure art."... Where I cum from we call that the money shot!...

sfokevin

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

bana — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:21:23 EDT

Wow. His music source is so easy to steal music from. It's $35 per song, but download the sample song, which is an mpu file (mpu files stream music from an mp3 source; so it is grabbing the mp3 file from somewhere and streaming it to you) and change the extension from ".mpu" to ".txt" and it shows you the source of the mp3. Copy/paste into url, and there you go, your free $35 dollar song.

bana

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

iamxyj — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:17:29 EDT

I love the huge blobs of foam near the end.

iamxyj

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

schwnj — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:16:28 EDT

Everyone talks about how dark the 600/1200FPS video was on this camera, but all of the videos that I've seen were indoors. When it's shot in full sun (like this video), it isn't dark at all.

schwnj

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

StrangeTikiGod — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:13:43 EDT

my God...it's full of fizz!

StrangeTikiGod

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

QWERTYthon — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:12:32 EDT

That was the best nerdgasm I've had in awhile.

QWERTYthon

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

TallDudeFromBrazil — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:11:47 EDT

Finally ultra-slow motion available for the porn industrie !!

I can only dream about what sites with the keyword "cum" can do with that...

TallDudeFromBrazil

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

BigDogues — Sun, 04 May 2008 14:04:46 EDT

I really can't believe I enjoyed that as much as I did.

BigDogues

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

PipeRifle — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:57:05 EDT

@kaneshadow: I was wondering this myself. A little research shows it is probably powdered gelatin, since that or gum arabic are both probable factors in the whole chemical shebang.

Powdered gum arabic isn't exactly a household staple, though, so it's probably Knox gelatin or something.

PipeRifle

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

MadOverlord — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:57:02 EDT

The 4th frame was a test using salt as a nucleation source, it didn't work very well, alas.

MadOverlord

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

dashexpress — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:54:20 EDT

Wow, I really wish I had one of those cameras.

dashexpress

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

11hawkinst — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:51:27 EDT

Pure art.

11hawkinst

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

kaneshadow — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:49:14 EDT

what's the 4th frame? Powdered mentos?

kaneshadow

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

kaneshadow — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:48:32 EDT

::slow clap::

that's one of the greatest (and most socially redeeming) videos I've ever seen posted on Youtube.

kaneshadow

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

mgoldman89 — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:47:02 EDT

At first I was like O_O, but then I lol'd. :D

mgoldman89

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

Stang70Fastback — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:38 EDT

I so want one of these cameras.

Stang70Fastback

Mentos and Diet Coke Explosion at 1200fps: Casio EX-F1 Strikes Again

NcSchu — Sun, 04 May 2008 13:43:13 EDT

Oh. My. God.

NcSchu