For no specific reason I can identify, I’m feeling a little extra somber this year about 9/11, so we’re going to put up some memorial posts on Friday and just let them breathe for the rest of the day.
Regularly scheduled funny to resume Saturday morning.
[High Praise! to Neatorama]
The Science:
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Coca-Cola is filled with dissolved CO2. The CO2 can escape (creating gas) if the partial pressure of CO2 is too low next the liquid. That’s why Coke goes flat if you leave it exposed to air.
Next we have butane, which is a nonpolar liquid at low temperatures, but boils at about 0 Celsius. When you add a bunch of butane to the coke bottle, it probably starts to form a liquid on top of the coke (it won’t mix), which causes water ice to form, which acts as an insulator.
Now, you flip the bottle. Not only does the liquid butane come into contact with warm coke, which causes it to boil, creating butane gas… but the newly gaseous butane doesn’t contain any CO2. That causes CO2 to rush into the new butane bubbles and expand even more.
The end result: a bunch of new butane gas and CO2 gas, also known as an explosion.
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The video:
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A new study shows that fish oil does not boost brain health, as commonly believed.
Possibly because it’s made entirely from fish who were dumb enough to get caught.
[High Praise! to Mental Floss]
There are Two Kinds of Hashtags — Which One Do You Use Most?
[Think you have a link that’s IMAO-worthy? Send it to harvolson@gmail.com. If I use your link, you will receive High Praise! (assuming you remember to put your name in the email)]
The Department of Energy is pushing a school curriculum to mold future “energy leaders to save the planet”.
Which I expect will work about as well as Michelle Obama’s plan to keep students from going hungry.
It’s a beautiful world. Let’s fight to protect it.
“From Republicans, I mean. Not terrorists.”
Works like this: I feed you Moon Nukers a straight line, and you hit me with a punch line in the comments.
If Joe Biden runs, expect his running mate to be…
President Obama said that people who oppose green energy are “standing in the way of the future”.
Oh… like that guy standing in front of the tanks at Tiananmen Square?
