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Super Cool Coke and Mentos Video

Jacob — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:43:46 +0000

Most of you have already seen the reaction you get when you drop a Mentos candy into a 2 liter bottle of Coke. Instant soda fountain. The videos have been all over the net and the experiment was even featured on the hit TV show, Mythbusters.

The video below takes this fizzy experiment to a whole new level. It shows what happens when you combine 251 bottles of Coke, over 1500 Mentos and two goggled geeks with waaaay too much time on their hands. Pretty impressive choreography and well worth the watch.

[Source: The Official Google Blog]

[tags]Coke and Mentos, Mythbusters[/tags]

Danish Scientists Advance Teleportation Research

Jacob — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 16:00:56 +0000

For about 2 years now, scientists have been able to ‘beam’ a single atom from one location to another, a fraction of a milimeter away. But Yahoo News is reporting that a group of Danish scientists have successfully transmitted thousands of billions of atoms a distance of almost half a meter (about 18 inches).

“Our method allows teleportation to be taken over longer distances because it involves light as the carrier of entanglement.”

Can you see Star Trek style transporters in our future?

[Source: Yahoo News Via: Slashdot.org]