In 2006, two unknown guys named Fritz and Stephen, who touted themselves as “Professional Diet Coke and Mentos Guys”, uploaded a YouTube video that would change their lives forever. Extreme Mentos & Diet Coke was a video of the guys creating a replica of the Bellagio Fountain using only Diet Coke and Mentos. The video took off, with over 11 million views to date. More successful experiments followed, but none as exciting as the duo’s newest video, in which Coke Zero and Mentos power a rocket car, and in 3D nonetheless!
In this latest video, which was uploaded to Fritz and Stephens YouTube Channel EepyBird two days ago, 108 two-liter bottles of Coke Zero and 648 Mentos are used to propel a vehicle, known as the Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car, 221 feet. How does this work? The duo explains in the video description:
“The Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car uses a piston mechanism: a six-foot long rod sits inside a six-foot long tube attached to each bottle of Coke Zero. When the Mentos drop into the soda, the pressure tries to push the rod out of the tube. With 108 rods all pushing at once, that gives us a lot of power.
“All that power is pushing against a wall braced with 3,600 pounds of cement blocks. So all the force is directed into moving the Coke Zero & Mentos Rocket Car forward. We get one big push for six feet, and then it’s all coasting from there.”
One of the coolest things about this new clip is that viewers can watch it in 3D if they have a pair of 3D glasses. If you don’t have the special glasses a non-3D version of the video is available as well. EepyBird also provides a video to show viewers how to make their own 3D glasses so that they can watch the 3D version of their video without having to hunt down a pair of special shades.
What do you think of Fritz and Stephen’s latest extreme Coke Zero and Mentos experiment? Do you think it will do as well as the original Bellagio fountain video? And do you think more online content creators will start putting out 3D content on YouTube and the rest of the web?
