An interesting thing about Coca-Cola.....

[NKVD]

The Mythbusters have done a ton of things that delt with Coca-Cola and other soft drinks . Here is the rundown on it:

Cola Myths

Cola is able to...

...kill sperm. Busted. The MythBusters added cola to some slides and saline solution to others. They counted the number of live sperm they could see through a microscope camera in one minute, and found that the number of live sperm in both saline and cola was relatively the same. With the help of Dr. Turek they determined that cola doesn't do much more than dilute the sperm.


Mythbusters: Cola Myths

I missed that episode but saw the outakes one...so my question is what sperm did they take? did Kari help Jamie in the bathroom?

 

[Mirc]

I missed that episode but saw the outakes one...so my question is what sperm did they take? did Kari help Jamie in the bathroom?

I missed that episode too, but I think it was a seriously interesting one!

 

[Veritass]

is that it is really good for cleaning your drip coffee maker. Make sure you don't ingest any.

Sodas contain mild carbonic acid, H2CO3. This breaks down into H2O and CO2, making for nice bubbles.

It's the sugar and the aspartame that are going to kill you, not the carbonic acid.

 

[Urederra]

Cola can be used as a toilet cleaner. Busted. For this myth, Adam dirtied M5's bathroom with engine oil in preparation for the cleanup. Jamie was greatly upset at this, but Adam assured him he'd be able to clean it. Adam tried to clean with cola, which only made the problem worse. Adam eventually cleaned using a regular all-purpose cleanser which worked well.

And that is what you use your toilet for? to get rid of engine oil? They should use other crap to burst that myth, IMHO.

 

[Masquerouge]

And that is what you use your toilet for? to get rid of engine oil? They should use other crap to burst that myth, IMHO.

Was that on purpose?

 

[Urederra]

Of course it was...

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Re AIDS: I am certainly not trying to justify the belief, just that I can understand how it came about. Remember that not all cultures are the same as ours, and raping a young woman to benefit an older man would not necessarily be seen as evil. Even though of course it is.

 

[Phlegmak]

This part of Wiki on Mythbusters is self contradictory:

Metal body piercings increase one's chances of being hit by lightning.

Busted

The lightning does seem to strike a pierced body more, but not the piercings directly. It would take a piercing the size of a doorknob to attract lightning.

 

[ArneHD]

This part of Wiki on Mythbusters is self contradictory:

Metal body piercings increase one's chances of being hit by lightning.

Busted

The lightning does seem to strike a pierced body more, but not the piercings directly. It would take a piercing the size of a doorknob to attract lightning.

I don't see the contradiction.

 

[CIVPhilzilla]

This part of Wiki on Mythbusters is self contradictory:

Metal body piercings increase one's chances of being hit by lightning.

Busted

The lightning does seem to strike a pierced body more, but not the piercings directly. It would take a piercing the size of a doorknob to attract lightning.

Its not contradictory, during the test they had two ballistic heads, one pierced, the other not. Even though the pierced head had slightly more lightning strikes, the high speed camera showed the contact was made with some other part of the head, not the piercings itself.

 

[Pontiuth Pilate]

... and other aerated soft drinks.

India's most popular and revered Yoga guru, Swami Ramdev, beloved of the conservatives for his patriotism and love for his country and religion, and equally beloved of the liberals for his ardently and uncompromisingly reformist attitude, asked people to try out an experiment.

He told them to take a bottle of Coca-Cola, and to use it in place of toilet cleaner (like Harpic) next time they felt like cleaning their toilets.

I tired it.

It worked better than the cleaner.



Since then, I've given up aerated drinks altogether. My relatives tell me that in Haryana, the larger bottles of Coke are unavailable to normal consumers - farmers buy them wholesale for use against a certain pest (though this is hearsay, and not confirmed).

I'd like the people here at CFC to try out the same, and tell me their results. If this turns out to be applicable to the US versions of Coke as well, then Coca-Cola corporation has some serious explaining to do.

They don't need to explain anything to you, they already told you right on the ingredients label: "phosphoric acid." Coke is VERY acidic. Yes, it will dissolve part of a baby tooth if you drop it in a glass of coke and leave it overnight.

However, you can hurt the teeth in your mouth from drinking Coke. For one thing, you'd need to hold it in your mouth for hours. And that still wouldn't work because your saliva would neutralize the acid (just like it does when you vomit).

Once you swallow the coke, obviously, it's harmless. Your stomach pH is way way worse than dilute phosphoric acid. Try using gastric acid to scrub a toilet (warning: only try this if you can afford to buy a new toilet).

Takes more than Coke to screw with human pH.

Furthermore the real health danger of Coke isn't its acidity. It's all the sugar and corn syrup in it. That will screw with your teeth far worse than drinking 0.5% dilute citric and phosphoric acid. By all means, don't drink Coke (or, don't drink it often). But make sure you're not drinking it for the right reasons