*hypf*

I just filled another glass of Ginger Ale and first I put it far away from my laptop. The reason: The droplets that bounce out from the glass from sparkling are pretty hard to remove once they land on the display and dry up.

The question is, how high (and far) do these droplets fly? They are propelled by a bubble of carbon dioxide that rises to the surface and bursts. That should give us an upper bound of the energy that is available for flying around. Ich also wonder whether the height is affected by the filling level of the glass, i. e. the way a carbon dioxide bubble can/has to rise.

Is there probably an ideal filling level where you shouldn't worry about droplets landing on your display (or other hard to clean objects in the vicinity)? Does the flying height maybe follow a specific distribution function so you could specify a filling level where you have 99 % certainty that no droplet escapes the glassy confinement?

I think I have to think about that later again. The droplets actually move fast enough to leave trails in the above image, captured at 1/250 second (may not be visible since I resized it, though).