Comments on: Toying with the Diet Coke and Mentos experiment

A science editor is marketing a toy that lets you re-create the fountain effect show in the famous YouTube video.
Photos: 'Triggering' Mentos into a Coke bottle

[davideprice]

MythBusters did better

Episode 57: Mentos and Soda showed the Myth Busters doing great
scientific experiments to find out just which chemicals and physical
phenomena contribute to the reaction. It turns out that there are
multiple reactions going on, and each contributes a large part.
Watch the show for details.

[smarterthanyou]

Do your homework...

The mythbusters producers used Steve Spangler, the source of this story, as the main consultant for the show. Steve Spangler is the major reason his craze has taken off...

And if you were paying attention, the mythbusters guys couldn't say for certain why this reaction occurs... Watch the show for details.

[the1kingarthur]

Headline News "Parents rioting across nation, leaving toy stores in ashes

Joking aside there is the potential for injury and or death, but I will not detail it here for fear someone will try it.

[smarterthanyou]

No danger... Unless you are an idiot.

I teach kids to do science everyday. The only danger in this experiment is if you have stuck up, self-righteous parents who don't bother to actually parent their kids... If you do the experiment as it was originally intended, there is NO DANGER!!!

[davidmec]

Mythbusters

Mythbusters, isn't exactly proof, of anything.