Launching the Coke/Mentos Rocket
Being rocket scientists and all, we couldn’t help but be fascinated by the latest craze lighting up the blogosphere: instructions and videos on how to combine Mentos with Diet Coke to create and launch your own home-made bottle rocket.
This particular launch is one of the top videos on YouTube, with nearly half a million viewings in the past six weeks:
An explanation on how it’s done can be seen here:
Of course, being rocket scientists (and, for some of us, parents as well) we must provide a caveat– bottlerockets are inherently dangerous, no matter how they’re constructed. We direct you to Newton’s Second Law of Motion for further explanation.
