• trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world
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    4 days 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

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      4 days ago

      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

    • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.world
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      4 days 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