One sunny, very hot afternoon in Las Vegas, a bunch of programmers decided to try this. With 5 2-liters and a pack of mentos in hand, we walked across to the new parking lot (to make it sticky with diet coke) and watched the experiment unfold.

I didn't do the editing...it would have been much better if I did it ;)

It didnt' look like the photo above but some were performed as promised.