3 clever hacks: save on gas, use Mentos and Mt. Dew to create an emergency light and a way to harness the power of photons to create free energy.
As we all know Mentos and Diet Coke have a rather explosive effect. Hundreds of videos document that phenomenon. In today's episode of Systm we're showing off one of Mentos' even more amazing (but lesser known) abilities. It seems certain ingredients in another popular soft drink, when combined with Mentos, produces a
luminescent glow. In fact there's enough light to actually read a book under. Think of it as an emergency light!
Getting a car to run a 100mpg is still a dream for many automakers and car owners. Motorcycles weigh less, have less wind and rolling resistance and regularly top 60 mpg. With Patrick's hack, which taps into a readily available source of Butane, you should be able to squeeze 50 percent greater efficiency from a typical 4 stroke gasoline engine... if you ride with a relatively light hand on the throttle 100 mpg is definitely possible!
The goal of producing a perpetual motion machine has been a challenge for both physicists and engineers alike. Dave Randolph thinks he's got a start on just such a machine, using light. Using some old parts, transistors and a lightgun from an old NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) he's done just that.
Now since the schematics for many these are overly complicated for mere words we've condensed that part of the show notes into this hand-dandy PDF file.
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Posted by ejking on 05/08/2008 at 09:46:54 pm in Systm
I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out why the mountain dew wasnt lighting up (i happened to have some mountain dew and mentos sitting in front of me while watching) until i reached the end of the episode.
Lol anyway good show.... had me right up to the credits when ya yelled APRIL FOOLS!
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Posted by MD2389 on 04/16/2008 at 02:05:20 pm in Systm
Though there was that one time when I was much younger, that I was throwing a foam basketball back and forth with my dad, and I accidentally nailed a can of cherry coke dead on....and it promptly dumped all over the telephone. :P That phone never once worked right since then! *link*
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Posted by nextgenxbox on 04/15/2008 at 10:38:08 pm in Systm
"Thanks for the mentos thing guys....! Really, my wife overheard me listening to my geek stuff and immediately tried this. Well, my laptop is sticky and her new HP one is dead and I'm probably going to get ants on the brand new porch... thanks for spending my next paycheck.:mad:
Not cool.
Ing"
It's not SYSTM's fault you/your wife are clumsy. ;)
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Posted by MD2389 on 04/15/2008 at 06:23:19 pm in Systm
"Thanks for the mentos thing guys....! Really, my wife overheard me listening to my geek stuff and immediately tried this. Well, my laptop is sticky and her new HP one is dead and I'm probably going to get ants on the brand new porch... thanks for spending my next paycheck.:mad:
Not cool.
Ing"
And this is why soft drinks and electronics don't mix. :)
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Posted by Ing on 04/13/2008 at 08:30:47 pm in Systm
Thanks for the mentos thing guys....! Really, my wife overheard me listening to my geek stuff and immediately tried this. Well, my laptop is sticky and her new HP one is dead and I'm probably going to get ants on the brand new porch... thanks for spending my next paycheck.:mad:
Not cool.
Ing
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Posted by rocketman121 on 04/13/2008 at 08:20:01 pm in Systm
Wow, it pays to watch the entire episode.
Just tried the Mountain Dew trick tonight. Very bummed when nothing happened. Even told my friends it 'worked' just because I saw someone do it on the internet. I immediatly got on the forums and figured out that I'm a sucker.
I watched the beginning of the show back when it was released. Needless to say, I've been swamped with school work and just now got around to trying it. Next time ill be watching till the end...
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Posted by chimerahitman on 04/13/2008 at 10:25:24 am in Systm
This is my first post, and I wanted to ask Patrick Norton and Dave Randolph if they increased the amount of 'nintendo guns' would it mean that you also get more power for the LED to shine up more?
Think about it. You have a single light source, but have multiple power production, therefore a brighter LED.
It is worth the try.
But then again... it just sucks as an april fools joke T_T
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Posted by darknessgp on 04/10/2008 at 06:58:45 am in Systm
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I think his point was, if you aren't coming on that day then don't do ANY jokes. Though, they always could have done the jokes and then had a real project.
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Posted by masherscf on 04/09/2008 at 07:47:21 pm in Systm
I know this was an April fools day episode. But, It was hard to take it seriously when Dave botched the percent change calculations.
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Posted by wxjunkie on 04/07/2008 at 09:38:17 am in Systm
"bad form. If your show is not released on apr. 1, you dont get to do an april fools episode.
SHAME ON YOU!
And shame on revision 3 in general. Its not April Fools Season, its April Fools Day. Get it right or dont do it at all."
Yeah it's hard to play a joke on a specific day when you are a weekly show.
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