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Did someone say "Nazi German Navy?"Awesome, as usual:http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=949
The unsatisfied press room erupted with speculations about elite FBI agents infiltrating the Gestapo and the High Command. Hoover refused to confirm any such wild theories, but his triple-eyebrow raises, exaggerated winks, and menacing cackles encouraged the reporters to adopt their own conclusions.
Henry Lee McGinnis has been walking the world for the last 16 years, Google him and I find nothing other than a one-minute video on BBC.So far he has walked over 80,000 miles across the US and 66 other countries. He is currently entering South America and will finish around 2010 in Texas, after passing through Central America and Mexico.According to his website, the former Methodist minister and World War II army sniper, carries a 100-pound rucksack with everything but a kitchen sink, and a six-foot steel-tipped walking staff for protection. When he is not camping out, he looks for local hosts for a bed.
This Wednesday, fifteen hundred Belgian students simultaneously inserted Mentos into Diet Coke bottles in Ladeuzeplein Square, instantly breaking what must be one of the world's most obscure records, reports Natalie Paris of Britain's Telegraph.And, not that you care, but here's a scientific explanation of why this works from The Disgruntled Chemist: The reason that the soda erupts so violently from the bottle is actually twofold: a decrease of the surface tension of the soda (due to dissolving Mentos), and an increase in nucleation sites (sites where bubbles of CO2 can form) within the bottle (due to the rough Mentos surface). Both of these factors make the carbon dioxide in the soda less likely to stay dissolved and more likely to become gaseous. The fountain effect is from all of the CO2 going from dissolved to gaseous at once, and at a great rate.
It looks absolutely terrifying.Buuuut...I would do it given the opportunity.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/04/1500-belgians-b.htmlThe site has a great picture and a video.QuoteThis Wednesday, fifteen hundred Belgian students simultaneously inserted Mentos into Diet Coke bottles in Ladeuzeplein Square, instantly breaking what must be one of the world's most obscure records, reports Natalie Paris of Britain's Telegraph.And, not that you care, but here's a scientific explanation of why this works from The Disgruntled Chemist: The reason that the soda erupts so violently from the bottle is actually twofold: a decrease of the surface tension of the soda (due to dissolving Mentos), and an increase in nucleation sites (sites where bubbles of CO2 can form) within the bottle (due to the rough Mentos surface). Both of these factors make the carbon dioxide in the soda less likely to stay dissolved and more likely to become gaseous. The fountain effect is from all of the CO2 going from dissolved to gaseous at once, and at a great rate.
http://www.walkscore.com/34 for me.
