That’s the trick, it’s actually about advertising to increase the total NASA budget so that they can actually get some space travel done
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trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The proportions are way off, you’re never going to reach Mars this way. You only need 1 mentos per 1 - 1.5 liter of coke
Cerothen@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 week ago
you need about 18000km/s delta V to go from Earth’s surface to Mars’s surface.
A mentos+coke gets about a couple meters per second delta V.
no, you cannot use 18 million bottles, because of the rocket equation
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
no, you cannot use 18 million bottles
Not with that attitude, you can’t!
because of the rocket equation
“Equation esmation!”
– whichever idiot Trump is undoubtedly about to appoint as head of NASA regardless of whether or not he is legally authorized to do so
stoy@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
This made me wonder, what is the fuel and oxidizer in a coke/mentos reaction?
To me, it seems like coke is the fuel, and mentos is the oxidizer.
Or would you say that coke is a monopropellant and the mentos is just the igniter?
Zer0_F0x@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The fuel is CO2 gas within the coke that gets rapidly released by the surface texture of the mentos.
Since the mentos doesn’t interact chemically it’s not an oxidizer, it interacts mechanically though so it acts as a turbopump maybe?
alteredEnvoy@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
technically mentos is the catalyst