Okay. Obviously what’s going on is the guy throws the soda bottle and, after a few bounces, it takes off like a rocket from the pressure of soda squirting out. But how?
Obviously he was expecting something interesting to happen, else why throw the bottle, and why record it? Did he expect this?
How did this work? Did the lid just happen to come off when the bottle was pointing down? Did the guy get lucky? Was the bottle rigged somehow? Is this just something that will happen if you bounce a bottle around enough? Did he just do this repeatedly for the camera hoping that something interesting would eventually happen? Is the video faked?
What makes it stand up before it takes off? It seems like it would be more likely to simply lay on its side and spin around, or shoot across the ground.
I have a feeling this video is edited. But it’s possible for the bottle to bounce like that. The reaction starts while it’s still bouncing on it’s side and could help propel it into the vertical position. But it’s all too clean looking. Also, the bottle stays suspiciously in focus as it rapidly approaches the camera, but maybe modern video equipment can do that.
It’s the Mentos in a diet Coke thing. I saw the original on a rerun of America’s Funniest Videos a couple days ago. The guy put the candy in the soda then put the lid back on expecting it to explode. When it didn’t, he threw in on the ground and you see what happened in the clip.
