Blowout

My soft drinks are trying to kill me.

Not really an experiment, just an event from a little while back. Soda (or pop, depending on where you live) bottle of the 2L variety, that was sitting on top of the fridge, where it was a few degrees above room temp. I heard a muffled “boom” from the computer room, and found this, along with most of 2L of soda all over the fridge and floor. It’s generally agreed that these bottle can usually withstand upwards of 100 psi, with some empirical data from people using such bottles for water-rocket fun. So I’m pretty sure I either had me a defective bottle, or it was rigged in a botched assassination attempt.

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0 thoughts on “Blowout

  1. maybe the extra heat from the fridge compromised the bottle’s structural integrety? Though you said it was only a few degrees above RT. That’s odd.