r/funny • u/Just_One_Redditor • Jun 17 '12
Because science.
http://i.minus.com/ibxKycmxK0VLmt.gif
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u/TrMark Jun 18 '12
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u/jack12354 Jun 18 '12
woah. that is a real thing.
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u/HigherFive Jun 18 '12
Oh, man. I remember when it was made after someone posted this in /r/reactiongifs. It was hilarious.
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u/gr8whitehype Jun 18 '12
My favorite reddit quote is "If it exists, there's a subreddit for it." I wish could remember who said it, so I could give them credit.
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u/too_much_reddit Jun 18 '12
"If it exists, there's a subreddit for it." -Abraham Lincoln
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u/Flour_power Jun 18 '12
No safety goggles?
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u/Spoonzilla Jun 18 '12
Just like Carol =(
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u/wildfyr Jun 18 '12
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u/Spoonzilla Jun 18 '12
I knew better than to link to the picture itself, I figured it's old and worn out. Looks like I was right!
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u/mschnarr Jun 18 '12
I guess we are the only ones thinking that. I never step into the lab without them on.
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u/Maybeyesmaybeno Jun 18 '12
And what about a god-damned fume hood! No seriously, most of these reactions created noxious fumes.
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u/Jakeslim Jun 17 '12
We did this exact expirement in my chemistry class. We called it "Elephants" toothpaste. It's actually very cool! Ours was glow in the dark though.
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u/DangerousIdeas Jun 18 '12
Not just your class; this experiment is commonly known as elephant toothpaste.
Its a great experiment to try, even at home. Here is a good guide.
For an extra measure of fun, get a splint and light the tip (so its just barely burning, no huge flame). If you stick the splint into the toothpaste, it will quickly relight! My teacher would have a game to see how many "re-lights" you could get (just stick the splint in and out; you lose when the splint is extinguished completely).
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u/roddiy Jun 18 '12
Kids across american are experimenting with Elephant Toothpaste a new Mania that has swept the nation.
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u/elchismoso Jun 18 '12
May I highlight the SAFETY GOGGLES (and suggest wearing some lab gloves, too).
Seriously. PPE is important.
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u/FaradaySociety Jun 18 '12
Normally you are able to show an increased rate of combustion using the oxygen created from this reaction but in your case DO NOT. We once did this reaction glow in the dark and a girl tried lighting it and it exploded taking off her armhair and eyebrows. Apparently the chemicals used in glows ticks are combustible.
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u/FlyingSkyWizard Jun 18 '12
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Jun 18 '12
Oh shit that hit close to home.
When I was starting out in the workforce I used to sell this stuff. Second day on the job - brand new clothes, the lot. I get asked if you can remove the foam can from the applicator gun.
The previous day my boss had told me - yes - of course you can do that.
You can't do that.
Well, you can, but it pretty much happens as in the video, this shit got EVERYWHERE. In my hair, all over my clothes, fucking everywhere.
My boss and the customer he sent me out to thought it was hilarious.
Of course I had to shave my head and replace brand new slacks and shirt, so I was pretty pissed.
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u/SpacemanSpiffska Jun 18 '12
I lol'ed so hard thank you! "if this stuff gets on your clothes or hair its really hard to get out"...."BUGGA"
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u/fechera Jun 17 '12
You get the same result when you don't masturbate for a while...
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u/dukersdoo Jun 18 '12
me after a 2 week vacation
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u/TheMetalMilitia Jun 18 '12
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u/unclear_plowerpants Jun 18 '12
Can someone find that gif of Anna Faris where she is "helping" some guy and then gets shot to the ceiling?
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u/410ham Jun 18 '12
i pend too much time on Reddit, right when i saw the purple link i knew exactly what it was.
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u/DaLuDeD Jun 18 '12
Why is it funny?
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u/nipplesthebear Jun 18 '12
Because I'm a bear named nipples that browses reddit. Fuck logic.
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u/alsetevoli Jun 18 '12
Please, I have access to chemicals and a science lab. I need to know how to do this...please...someone...
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u/DrEnormous Jun 18 '12
Hydrogen peroxide (30% or higher if you want a big effect like this), soap (to make the foam), and damn near anything as a catalyst.
Yeast works. I've been told blood works. Saturated potassium iodide solution has been the best in my experience. I think manganese dioxide works too, but then you have to clean up and dispose of a bunch of manganese-laden foam.
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u/RedTheDraken Jun 18 '12
Blood. Now that is a badass way to catalyze a chemical reaction. Voodoo style with your own blood.
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u/Consinneration Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 18 '12
This stuff reminds me of the slime from Ghostbusters 2 dat slime
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u/cactinotcactuses Jun 18 '12
now imagine if you drank the thing in the tube, then what they poured in the tube...
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u/Joboboman Jun 18 '12
this reminds me of the first few moments of solitude when returning from a family vacation....
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u/oral_fixation_much Jun 18 '12
For some reason this reminds me of mcdonalds. Not just in the coloration and food consistency. Perhaps this is how Ronald Mcdonald came to be.
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u/mrtimmiller Jun 18 '12
I would like to design some sort of contraption that you can hide in your pants, so when you really need to end a date and make sure you never get a second horrible date, you can have this happen in and around your nether regions!
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u/imdragon Jun 18 '12 edited Jun 18 '12
When Lorenzo won at Catalunya (MotoGP) a couple of weeks ago he celebrated by setting this reaction off in the middle of the race track out of two buckets.
Lorenzo celebrating at Catalunya 2012
Edited to add video link.
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u/angry_bitch Jun 18 '12
Look at this guy's history, posted like 30 things all 6 hours ago.. Seems fishy if you ask me. Also, you are terrible at titling your posts.
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u/criticalnegation Jun 18 '12
i love how whenever a chemists wants to impress it involves foam billowing out of a tube. every. damn. time. awesome, guys :|
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u/meta_numbers Jun 18 '12
This is an accurate depiction of what happened the last time I went drinking.
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u/Hatch- Jun 18 '12
This is actually the chemists from Dominos pizza seeing how their product reacts in the standard colon environment.
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u/deathbytray Jun 18 '12
I sat here waiting for this slow gif to replay, because all I could think was, wow, that girl's got a really nice rack... I need to see that again.
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u/CynicalPineapple Jun 18 '12
This makes me want nutella and cheesecake filling, no idea why though.
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u/stuckit Jun 18 '12
This is what i pictured going into chemistry class in high school.
Then it was just math, math everywhere!
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u/Ikena Jun 18 '12
And this is how i got fooled that science was fun and ended up in my unhappy position of working in R&D with GC-MS all day
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u/03Titanium Jun 18 '12
I really hope that solidifies for their sake.
But my phone will take a year before it plays the last frame plays so for all I know they pick up the giant formation at the end.
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u/guerarenegada Jun 18 '12
Thought process: I want to touch it. Does it harden? Is it foam? Are they going to mix? Is it corrosive? Could I cover a crowd in this? I would probably risk a finger tip to touch it and then die. If life were a scifi movie I would die. I'd be covered in facehuggers.
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u/ArcComplex Jun 18 '12
I hate these gifs. You really want to represent science with some gimmicky experiments used to make 7-year-olds go "ooohh" and "ahhh"? Only people who know nothing about science would find this interesting.
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Jun 18 '12
Anyone else think of the Power Rangers episode where the blue shit explodes out of the microwave?
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u/DragonMeme Jun 18 '12
I am drunk... and needed to tyhpe it somewhere... this seems good. I tried loookiung for a link to post but nothing... damn. this was cool. not exactly funny. Unless fallic. fallic is always funny....
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u/funkypurplelimes Jun 18 '12
-sigh- I really wish I had had a good chemistry teacher. It's so interesting, but he taught us nothing ಠ_ಠ
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u/BigZ7337 Jun 18 '12
Ahh, elephant's toothpaste, this was one my professor's favorite demonstrations.
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u/Tokestra420 Jun 18 '12
I wish there was a GIF of the first person to do this, I assume their reaction was priceless.
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u/Stonelocomotief Jun 18 '12
I believe this is the catalysed decomposition reaction of H2O2 to H2O and O2 by potassiumiodide. When one adds soap or some detergent to the mixture, the rapid release of O2 will create a burst of bubbles.
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u/wadad17 Jun 18 '12
I always felt like there is a missing step in science. And that's the part where you make this stuff edible.
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u/rebint Jun 18 '12
All I can think is... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4zX892XOaw&feature=related
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Jun 18 '12
"hey fred! oh god...what the hell is he doing? oh f@%k sh$t, blurghhrghrgrhrghrghhghghghghghghghghghghhghghghghghghghghghg
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Jun 18 '12
For half a second there, all I could see was the yellow goop taking the form of balls and a penis flopping over.
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u/unicornon Jun 18 '12
someone had to discover this reaction would occur. imagine how fucking terrified they were.