Ikr?! I wish i had a big water gun that shoots giant sticky white stuff from two giant round containers that stream through a narrow end of a pole! Sadly we all cant have these things,
Electrical engineer here: 15:15 the reason why an electric arc forms in the first place is because of the magnitude of the electric field at that point. The reason why u only see plasma streamers when the fluid flow breaks apart into little bits is because now the charge density on that conductor is huge. You have a lot of high energy oscillating charges on such a small surface area that equates to a very high, concentrated, electric field. Water doesn't seem like a bad idea 😂 but if ur looking to make those Tesla coil guns as shown in the beginning (QCWDRSSTC) you want to created a "ramped full bridge inverter" to the primary coil of ur Tesla Coil. Basically there's some weird effect that allows a streamer of plasma to keep growing while the bus voltage of ur Tesla Coil power circuit is changing.
You can see in the beginning when he first fires it, it's shooting arcs, but the second the stream hits the ground the arcs stop. And at the end when the stream is breaking up, the arcs start jumping from the main stream between the droplets. I think all that's happening here is that the big, laminar, conductive stream of liquid is essentially acting like a huge low resistance wire which provides a direct path to ground.
Many years ago, an US Navy naval research lab, built a lightning weapon that could travel in a straight line. The trick consisted of shooting first a high power UV light, subsequently ionizing a cylindrical portion of the air, facilitating a low impedance path for the electrical discharge. There is no need to say that thing was terribly impractical.
Yep. Also, for a "good" system you actually want _two_ paths of opposing polarity, so that the circuit gets completed without requiring a shared grounding point. A Tesla coil could be modified to provide the polarities, but it wouldn't really be a Tesla coil anymore (because you'd have to cut the shared circuit node of the two coils).
@@absalomdraconis I think an argument could be made that you would want ground to be the return path. If anything I would think that having both paths side by side would increase the likelihood of them drawing into each other and shorting. Plus, while projecting both paths would have an effect more like a taser, and potentially offer less full circuit resistance, the burn path through the target would be a lot smaller. It might depend on what the target is. For instance, if the target is an aircraft then a common earth ground would be less viable, unless you could charge it up enough that the flying object becomes a lightning bolt. . .
I'm but a humble engineering student but I have a pretty good theory about goo conduction. In laminar flow, the goo conducts the electrons all the way to the ground, where it basically acts as a ground wire. When the stream breaks up, air gets between the goo bits and creates a huge amount of resistance. Then the electrons see relatively the same amount of effort going outwards as to the ground, so they just arc into the air again causing lightshow.
I think an easy way to fix this might be to go to a smaller nozzle, until the pressure is enough, so it goes in a straight line until it breaks up. That way it should be possible to hit something without grounding it at the same time (at least not as quickly)
Argon, similar to helium, was an incredibly elusive element for a very long time, only really occurring in the spectra of space objects for the first century we observed it. At this time their existence was controversial, and Mendeleev's periodic table of elements didn't even have a group where they were expected to fit... Because of paired-electron spin mechanics, these "noble" elements as we call them are deceptively mundane and non-reactive since they have fully paired electrons in their outermost orbital.
@@4FlatTires before hitting the target it was also hitting the ground, but is it possible that the big surface area of the goo flying also played a part?
I love that the context behind every Allen Pan video is that he is existentially disappointed by the fact he won't be a real mythbuster even though it was dangled in front of him
I need to see an electrically charged flamethrower. And im not talking about something that puffs flames using an electrical battery im talking full on liquid fuel flamethrower charged by arcs of lightning. The greatest "legal" DIY Warcrime.
Please no one hurt this man emotionally, mentally, or physically. Because if he gets pissed off he might just build a death ray to start his villain arc. 🤣
I slowed it down. Argon isn't combustible so it was perfectly safe but the plasma was shooting all the way back into the tank. So freaking cool. I wonder if the tank had been clear if it would have lit up, too!
I should have noted that it was just the instantaneous feeling that something might go wrong. but I do know it's not combustible. The main thought I wanted to convey was that feeling of "oh no, what was that flash?!" I had to go back and slow it down to see it was an arc
well, depending on the current it might be dangerous as if the ark travels and persists inside the tank then the temperature inside it can rise up to a point where the pressure becomes higher than the rated amount for the canister.
@@hrishikeshaggrawal I suppose that's possible but, the tank was being emptied as fast as it would go and he wasn't really running the Tesla coil for that long. I think it was safe enough. He's certainly done more dangerous things... Lol
In TIG welding a gas lens is used to get better argon coverage. It stabilizes the gas exiting the torch and allows for more consistent flow. Might be worth a try.
Allen Pan pulling a Michael Reeves while sponsored by Mark Rober wasn't what I was expecting today, but I am in no way complaining. Great work as always man, and RIP to Busty the Walrus. I will never forgive the Discovery Channel for that
yo Allen love your vids noticed at 6:48 your losing electricity back to the tank may have better results by in grounding the tank and use nozzles to pressurize the system a bit watch your pci though or pounds by square inch don't want to overwhelm to your material and make it explode but I do see potential and you'll probably want to look into strengthening your coil a bit too
So, in regards to Ghostbusters, in-universe, that's a stream of highly positively charged particles being funnelled out of a particle accelerator. The idea is that the positively charged "Proton Stream" gets entangled with the negative particles of ghosts. Then an energy sink, called a Ghost Trap, sucks in the weakened negative energy, trapping the ghost. There's another piece of equipment relevant to this video called a Slime Blower, which ejects positively charged ectoplasm that counteracts any negative energy, including negative emotions. Most of the tech in those films relies on the theoretical idea of miniature Cyclotrons, ghosts having unique energy fields, and the ability to make a somewhat controlled beam of Protons and/or Neutrons. Your successful build at the end, I'd say fits quite well as an early prototype!!
15:10 It's grounding itself when the stream of goo touches the ground. That's why it would look dark because all the electricity is just going straight into the ground and discharging to the air molecules like a tesla coil normally does.
"all the electricity is just going straight into the ground" It's not actually shorting like a "grounded circuit" would in a protective ground. Instead the current is going up causing less energy to be in the resonator which lowers the voltage. So less energy is exiting the coil itself so never makes it into the ground. If that were the case the coil would have melted. The way I like to think of it the coil is like a tuning fork and a high resistance is like tapping it with a feather and a low resistance is like pushing on it with your finger. The sound is the energy output.
There’s a device used in CT rooms and other medical imaging procedures called a contrast injectors where using a mechanical plunger to get pressures up to 1300 psi. Just a fun thing to look for if you want to do more stupid shit. I’m here for it
Hey Alan, You Rock Bro!!! That's the most I've laughed at a CZcams Channel in a L O N G time! Seriously, I could see how much extra work you put in on that video and I have to say it's impressive. You built all of those projects just for us to laugh, you're a freaking champion! I just had to give a "Like" and "Subscribe". I'm really impressed! Please keep making videos! Here's a few extra "Exclamation Marks"… !!! !!! You earned it.
Make an aerosol metal dust that you can spray out of a can, they when sprayed in combination with the voltage it should chain together. Same idea as the flour and fire method, but for electricity.
you might be able to improve range and spread with a less coarse grain size, bring somebody who's worked on nanoparticles and shotgun ammunition. polarizing the grains right before firing them with some charge could encourage arking as well.
Iirc that used to be used in stage shows for special effects lightning bolts. Extremely dangerous, but awesome. I heard that when I was young though, so no idea if legitimate.
You should try a conductive mist or vapor, so it’s stays in the air longer and travels farther. Idk if the arks with jump from droplets to droplets but it looked really cool when the laminator flow started breaking 14:45 . I wish I could work on this stuff
The long stream is probably de-tuning the coil - need to decrease the primary resonant frequency so the secondary gets into tune when the stream is formed.
About the lack of arcs coming from the laminar flow, here’s my two cents: I would guess that it’s similar to the effect where arcs tend to jump from sharp points due to the charges concentrating at those points. A turbulent stream of conductive liquid would be “lumpier” so to speak than a laminar one, and would provide more locations for the charges to jump off from.
Dope video! I agree, it looked awesome when the flow was breaking up. I just kinda got into you and the rest of the guy's videos recently. Wish I would have stumbled on you sooner so I could make OpenSauce this year. It's a little late for me to make it this year, but if you have one in 2025, we plan on being there. Hopefully, as an exhibitor!!
Lasers can create a long path of ionized particles in the atmosphere that lightning is more encouraged to then closely follow. There is a WIP defense system for coastal/mountainous cities that experience a ton of storms, using lasers that aim at highly polarized sections of clouds(using the same system that's used to navigate planes in storm clouds, maybe their own x-ray cams or satellite data, idk the info source might vary) to redirect the lightning to a lightning rod present right beside the source of the laser. Using this system lightning can be deterred away from other attractive and relatively tall objects that aren't supposed to be lightning rods. The entire system ended up being a "car sized" laser and god knows how much it pulled from the power gird, but if you intend to use if for say an effective range of accuracy for only 5 to 10 meters instead of the absurd 2-8 km distance to the clouds, then you might be able to make a capacitor and battery design circuit used by modern coil guns to actually make something definable as a working lightning gun that can be carried on-hand, since lasers need to be stronger the longer they need to travel, they can also be weaker if they don't need to travel farther. Anyway, more about the defense system cuz it's too cool to just leave out, is that it can be configured so multiple buildings can be made to communicate so as to share the "hits" from the cloud as a single spot doesn't get struck twice in short intervals, for example say if the tallest sky scraper's lightning rod has already been hit, the laser can then be turned off so the next tallest building can use it's own laser stationed right under it's own lightning rod to bait for the next lightning and slowly deplete the charge in the cloud. This innovation is going to be a major contributor if we ever figure out a way to make lightning harvesting a viable source of energy with radical temperature superconductors someday. Sure it might not make sense today but maybe if our decedents move to Venus someday where storms are far more common and far more powerful it might just be the one thing they need to keep going. There is a shorts video with the title of "This crazy laser can stop lightning" by Cleo Abram from a year ago that shows working footage, and is how I came to know of this method. Edit: I should watch the video before commenting. huh.
I think the design would be improved if the 2 goo reservoirs were spherical instead of cylindrical, as the volume to surface area ratio is more efficient that way. Also, maybe have them underneath the goo launcher to make the whole arrangement less top-heavy? Easiest way might be to just put them in a bag that hangs underneath. ...Also, make the bag wrinkly.
The long string of conductive goo acts as a capacitive body, that tunes the tesla coil secondary way off resonance. It's like connecting a wire antenna to the thing, lowering the resonant frequency of that secondary. It still produces some RFHV, but way less.
Okay, so I have a theory on why the goop didn't look as cool as the water: Because the water is not, well, goopy, it separates very easily (as we saw). I think as, it's leaving the nozzle, tiny water drops are flying off of the main stream. The sparking and arcing we see is the electricity within the main stream jumping to those little bits. Thus, the sparks increase as the water gets further from the nozzle. This explains why the goop is not arcing in the air, as it does not separate as easily as compared to the water. You can see a little bit of arcs *just* after turning on the spray, and once it starts to lose pressure, as there is not enough pressure within the cannon to expel a solid stream. The science-semen is particulating into the air for those small moments, thus the electricity has something accessible and conductive to arc to. But hey, that's just a theory. A science theory.
I’m thinking the same thing. The arcs are insulating air breaking down into plasma. But if the fluid is conductive then there might not be a strong enough field for breakdown of the fluid
The thing with the terawatt laser is that it's not maintaining that level of power for more than a few microseconds; basically just long enough for the light to travel the distance required to make the plasma channel. If you convert it to watt-hours (the unit we usually mean when we say watt), it's in the realm of a low cost computer power supply.
15:30 I think that the laminar goo-flow is SO laminar that it ends up just grounding itself 90% of the time and so that's why it doesn't arc until the laminar-ness goes away. I think. I wouldn't know, I'm not the one who built a freaking tesla minigun. Super cool!
There is an important distinction - the laser for calling down lightning was a picosecond duration terawatt range *pulsed* laser - quite different from a 10w continuous laser like you have.
15:15 discharge is seen where electric field (potential gradient) is the biggest, usually it's pointy or sharp things. Your laminar flow seems to be quite smooth, but turbulence creates the points of "unevenness", sharper turns That's also the reason why you had attached a torus to the tesla coil: so that it didnt disharge too much and lose energy
I remember seeing some sort of tesla or lightning thing and it was done in such a way that like an inch past the end the electricity arced perfectly straight, after which it did normal tesla tower things
Allen look up the Japanese "burton" 3d mid-air display. Closest thing we have to sci-fi 3d holograms. It focuses lasers at a single point in space to create a burst of plasma from the air itself. Takes a ton of power but it is possible to ionize air via laser. Could lead to an electrolaser or the illusion of a lightsaber blade
Hello Allen! 👋
waffle
It’s the guy!!
omg no way
It’s Michael! 🎉
Thanks for coming back Michael. You going to open sauce?
He survived another recording process, congrats Allen
We don't know that yet, could be the space men replacing his body again
You could say that to ElectroBOOM every video.
Yeah no, this is actually the 6th Allen. Allens 1-5 met with a horrible accidents. My Heart goes out to Allen #4, what a tragedy.
No it’s the 9th
He did but his phone died.... is being without a phone truly surviving?!?
Alans water gun that shoots giant sticky white stuff from two giant round containers that stream through a narrow end of a pole is ingenious
Wut
Ikr?! I wish i had a big water gun that shoots giant sticky white stuff from two giant round containers that stream through a narrow end of a pole! Sadly we all cant have these things,
the lightning penis and electrical testicles
@@crimsonbeeking6751 lol
lol
Electrical engineer here: 15:15 the reason why an electric arc forms in the first place is because of the magnitude of the electric field at that point. The reason why u only see plasma streamers when the fluid flow breaks apart into little bits is because now the charge density on that conductor is huge. You have a lot of high energy oscillating charges on such a small surface area that equates to a very high, concentrated, electric field.
Water doesn't seem like a bad idea 😂 but if ur looking to make those Tesla coil guns as shown in the beginning (QCWDRSSTC) you want to created a "ramped full bridge inverter" to the primary coil of ur Tesla Coil.
Basically there's some weird effect that allows a streamer of plasma to keep growing while the bus voltage of ur Tesla Coil power circuit is changing.
Noice
A comment with almost perfect grammar that uses "u" and "ur" instead of "you" and "your/you're" makes my underpowered brain go bye bye.
You can see in the beginning when he first fires it, it's shooting arcs, but the second the stream hits the ground the arcs stop. And at the end when the stream is breaking up, the arcs start jumping from the main stream between the droplets. I think all that's happening here is that the big, laminar, conductive stream of liquid is essentially acting like a huge low resistance wire which provides a direct path to ground.
[breathes in]
NERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRDDDDDDDDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!
Fr facts
12:35 two balls, a shaft and it shoots suspicious looking liquid. Lmao.
That liquid is really cumming out oops I misspelled that
someone said it
Xantham gum water is stored in the balls
@@gabewhittaker6111but are we sure that’s xanthum tho
Because that liquid be looking…
…suspicious
@@spacesharkwriter6554 You would need the Chinese "milking" machine that Jordan Peterson posted a while back lol
10:51 Electrical Dysfunction, or ED - is very common with larger holes.
Don't feel bad 🤣
💀
The term “flaccid lightsaber” came to mind lol
He should make an ED lightning whip
Electyle Disfunction
I think we all know what that last part is referring to 💀
Many years ago, an US Navy naval research lab, built a lightning weapon that could travel in a straight line.
The trick consisted of shooting first a high power UV light, subsequently ionizing a cylindrical portion of the air, facilitating a low impedance path for the electrical discharge. There is no need to say that thing was terribly impractical.
Yep. Also, for a "good" system you actually want _two_ paths of opposing polarity, so that the circuit gets completed without requiring a shared grounding point. A Tesla coil could be modified to provide the polarities, but it wouldn't really be a Tesla coil anymore (because you'd have to cut the shared circuit node of the two coils).
@@absalomdraconis I think an argument could be made that you would want ground to be the return path. If anything I would think that having both paths side by side would increase the likelihood of them drawing into each other and shorting. Plus, while projecting both paths would have an effect more like a taser, and potentially offer less full circuit resistance, the burn path through the target would be a lot smaller. It might depend on what the target is. For instance, if the target is an aircraft then a common earth ground would be less viable, unless you could charge it up enough that the flying object becomes a lightning bolt. . .
Hmm Laser Guided Lightning
I wanna see someone build that lmao
The delivery on "So their using a laser that's a thousand times stronger than God." had me dieing...lmao
10:50 bro I've never seen a flaccid lightning in my life 😂😂😂 what a time to be alive LMFAO
Men of culture, we all need to appreciate how funny this comment is.
I'm but a humble engineering student but I have a pretty good theory about goo conduction. In laminar flow, the goo conducts the electrons all the way to the ground, where it basically acts as a ground wire. When the stream breaks up, air gets between the goo bits and creates a huge amount of resistance. Then the electrons see relatively the same amount of effort going outwards as to the ground, so they just arc into the air again causing lightshow.
This is what I came up with as well as an answer to his question
Sounds about right
most probably
why isint this the top comment\
I think an easy way to fix this might be to go to a smaller nozzle, until the pressure is enough, so it goes in a straight line until it breaks up. That way it should be possible to hit something without grounding it at the same time (at least not as quickly)
"I was scrolling through ads, when I stumbled onto content" is like the new version of the "I found chips in my bag of air" joke.
Glad that Argon isnt easily flammable after seeing that electrical arc ride back up the Argon tube back towards the tank @7:04 😅
Easily? Try literally non-reactive...
Yeah all that oxygen in that argon tank really would've caused a problem... oh, wait, you just made an incredibly dumb comment
Argon, similar to helium, was an incredibly elusive element for a very long time, only really occurring in the spectra of space objects for the first century we observed it. At this time their existence was controversial, and Mendeleev's periodic table of elements didn't even have a group where they were expected to fit... Because of paired-electron spin mechanics, these "noble" elements as we call them are deceptively mundane and non-reactive since they have fully paired electrons in their outermost orbital.
Yeah that almost gave me a heart attack
15:05 The goup is hitting ground so there is no arking in the air because it is grounded. :)
didnt thought about that you are right :)
That makes so much sense!
i also think that's the reason, but i'm not sure, can someone smart assure us?
The high viscosity liquid accumulated on the plastic figure providing a conductive pathway to the ground...
@@4FlatTires before hitting the target it was also hitting the ground, but is it possible that the big surface area of the goo flying also played a part?
I love that the context behind every Allen Pan video is that he is existentially disappointed by the fact he won't be a real mythbuster even though it was dangled in front of him
He, in fact, did NOT have enough time to animate the comments out of his way 😂😂
11:11
I bet he's got a great personality tho
“They’re using a laser that’s a thousand times stronger than god” had me in tears
…aaannnnnd Marty McFly 😂🤣
I need to see an electrically charged flamethrower. And im not talking about something that puffs flames using an electrical battery im talking full on liquid fuel flamethrower charged by arcs of lightning. The greatest "legal" DIY Warcrime.
Tase your enemies while simultaneously burning them
Would it not juat combust the fuel tho
Its not a war crime the first time.
That’s the chemical thrower from bioshock
Ah a fellow fat electrician fan
I love allen casually showing off the merch that was ordered to be destroyed
If you look real close it's actually a new design I'm working on that says "Myth Busted", not "Mythbusters" ;)
14:17 Hi Chef
I didn’t expect I would be the first person to comment, also hi Micheal great meeting u!
@@sussyguy8901Hi there! 👋 😀
@@MichaelSuperbacker did you ever get the air umbrella from amazon?
Hey man! How ya doing! I watched your interview!
Please no one hurt this man emotionally, mentally, or physically. Because if he gets pissed off he might just build a death ray to start his villain arc. 🤣
that would be Greg Leyh
@@storbytronics styropyro 100% mostly because he already has a death ray... Or 2..... Or like 10
@@daweed695 Have you heard about Greg's 110kv Lorentz Gun? *that's* a real deathray
and he will make the death ray look like a twig and berries for maximum humiliation
Considering what Discovery Channel did, he's already been hurt emotionally. We've only got 2 more strikes left...
seeing that arc fire backwards through the tube and into the argon container @6:22 made an indescribable chill go down my spine.
why? its not like its combustible.. even if there was any oxidizer/air to begin with
I slowed it down. Argon isn't combustible so it was perfectly safe but the plasma was shooting all the way back into the tank. So freaking cool. I wonder if the tank had been clear if it would have lit up, too!
I should have noted that it was just the instantaneous feeling that something might go wrong. but I do know it's not combustible.
The main thought I wanted to convey was that feeling of "oh no, what was that flash?!" I had to go back and slow it down to see it was an arc
well, depending on the current it might be dangerous as if the ark travels and persists inside the tank then the temperature inside it can rise up to a point where the pressure becomes higher than the rated amount for the canister.
@@hrishikeshaggrawal I suppose that's possible but, the tank was being emptied as fast as it would go and he wasn't really running the Tesla coil for that long. I think it was safe enough. He's certainly done more dangerous things... Lol
10:41 it also covers the target in water making more go to it
12:15 tonight on SMNN
beastchld
12:09 that shape is definitely not an accident
Especially the color of the liquid
The best designs are often inspired by nature 😂
strongest shape
@@squishthatcat8808fr, ever wonder why buildings never stand forever?
When have you seen a building shaped like a pp smh
Inspired by the Neo Armstrong Cyclone Jet Armstrong Cannon.
Man, imagine being Allen's neighbors. And you're just trying to watch tv at 11 at night, and you look at out and see 30 foot lightning bolts.
Are you kidding? I would turn off the TV, open an energy drink, and record it while I watched the whole event unfold!
OH GOD IT'S GOD COMING TO KILL US ALL!!
You are one of my favorite youtuber's, forever keep up the good content and amazing work allen. Thank you for all the laughs!
In TIG welding a gas lens is used to get better argon coverage. It stabilizes the gas exiting the torch and allows for more consistent flow. Might be worth a try.
Allen Pan pulling a Michael Reeves while sponsored by Mark Rober wasn't what I was expecting today, but I am in no way complaining.
Great work as always man, and RIP to Busty the Walrus. I will never forgive the Discovery Channel for that
She mark rober on my michael reeves til i allen pan.
@@izznt damn, out-commented me in my own replies. Well played
Why are so many bigger content makers uploading today
saving mine so it's mint to wear in my casket
while helped by thebackyardscientist and living with William Osman...
12:39
I like the decision to have a container on each side of the nozzle shooting tacky liquids. Great design!
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the “pee” is literally stored in the balls! 🤣
“And this is the guy she told you not to worry about” Hilarious!
I just now found your site. Great job!
yo Allen love your vids noticed at 6:48 your losing electricity back to the tank may have better results by in grounding the tank and use nozzles to pressurize the system a bit watch your pci though or pounds by square inch don't want to overwhelm to your material and make it explode but I do see potential and you'll probably want to look into strengthening your coil a bit too
13:29 I THOUGHT THE DOG WAS THE TARGET
SAME
Goat 🐐. But yeah. Well actually it’s William Osman’s lawnmower
Sir that is a goat
Goat 💀
Lol that was funny, pretty sure it was intentional
5:06 future people, this is a joke regarding the solar eclipse and how staring at it without protective equipment can cause permanent retina damage
So, in regards to Ghostbusters, in-universe, that's a stream of highly positively charged particles being funnelled out of a particle accelerator. The idea is that the positively charged "Proton Stream" gets entangled with the negative particles of ghosts. Then an energy sink, called a Ghost Trap, sucks in the weakened negative energy, trapping the ghost. There's another piece of equipment relevant to this video called a Slime Blower, which ejects positively charged ectoplasm that counteracts any negative energy, including negative emotions. Most of the tech in those films relies on the theoretical idea of miniature Cyclotrons, ghosts having unique energy fields, and the ability to make a somewhat controlled beam of Protons and/or Neutrons.
Your successful build at the end, I'd say fits quite well as an early prototype!!
15:10 It's grounding itself when the stream of goo touches the ground. That's why it would look dark because all the electricity is just going straight into the ground and discharging to the air molecules like a tesla coil normally does.
oh true, and the disconnected jizzlets in the air also look cooler because they're not grounded
"all the electricity is just going straight into the ground" It's not actually shorting like a "grounded circuit" would in a protective ground. Instead the current is going up causing less energy to be in the resonator which lowers the voltage. So less energy is exiting the coil itself so never makes it into the ground. If that were the case the coil would have melted. The way I like to think of it the coil is like a tuning fork and a high resistance is like tapping it with a feather and a low resistance is like pushing on it with your finger. The sound is the energy output.
There’s a device used in CT rooms and other medical imaging procedures called a contrast injectors where using a mechanical plunger to get pressures up to 1300 psi.
Just a fun thing to look for if you want to do more stupid shit. I’m here for it
Oh hey that’s the one that makes you feel like you pissed yourself isn’t it?
@@goatah Can confirm, not a great feeling, and it persists for a good 30 mins afterwards too.
Hey Alan, You Rock Bro!!! That's the most I've laughed at a CZcams Channel in a L O N G time! Seriously, I could see how much extra work you put in on that video and I have to say it's impressive. You built all of those projects just for us to laugh, you're a freaking champion! I just had to give a "Like" and "Subscribe". I'm really impressed! Please keep making videos! Here's a few extra "Exclamation Marks"… !!! !!! You earned it.
Stumbled onto your channel , Had a blast watching your vid...And as a Paramedic I'm sure I'll be seeing ya soon
Just use the tesla coil to start my heart again 😹
Make an aerosol metal dust that you can spray out of a can, they when sprayed in combination with the voltage it should chain together.
Same idea as the flour and fire method, but for electricity.
Distance and dispersion might mean poor range, but it would probably look dope as hell kinda like when the goo broke up.
you might be able to improve range and spread with a less coarse grain size, bring somebody who's worked on nanoparticles and shotgun ammunition. polarizing the grains right before firing them with some charge could encourage arking as well.
Just use graphite dust. It is sold as a dry lubricant for locks and such and its very conductive.
Iirc that used to be used in stage shows for special effects lightning bolts. Extremely dangerous, but awesome. I heard that when I was young though, so no idea if legitimate.
The man, the NOT mythbuster, the legend RETURNS!
This proves something I wanted to try out long ago, thank so soooo much. Will definitely give it a try
You should try a conductive mist or vapor, so it’s stays in the air longer and travels farther. Idk if the arks with jump from droplets to droplets but it looked really cool when the laminator flow started breaking 14:45 . I wish I could work on this stuff
The long stream is probably de-tuning the coil - need to decrease the primary resonant frequency so the secondary gets into tune when the stream is formed.
I'm not sure if you're saying star trek technobabble or actual words.
mike on safety third podcast when ☺
sounds legit, get this to his attention dudeski.
@@v3xx3r They're real words! The circuit is basically a transformer, and the secondary is the part that connects to the big metal rod
This kind of Tesla coil self-tunes. You don’t need to adjust anything.
About the lack of arcs coming from the laminar flow, here’s my two cents: I would guess that it’s similar to the effect where arcs tend to jump from sharp points due to the charges concentrating at those points. A turbulent stream of conductive liquid would be “lumpier” so to speak than a laminar one, and would provide more locations for the charges to jump off from.
thank you smart person in comments
Most likely exactly why. You don't see the very dangerous and deadly electricity flowing in cables in town unless they break.
This was also my best guess
the water became a wire
Finally! There's too much pseudoscience in this comment section 😩
Dope video! I agree, it looked awesome when the flow was breaking up. I just kinda got into you and the rest of the guy's videos recently. Wish I would have stumbled on you sooner so I could make OpenSauce this year. It's a little late for me to make it this year, but if you have one in 2025, we plan on being there. Hopefully, as an exhibitor!!
Allen is the goat he cames with anything that pops up in his mind and just create to a legendary masterpiece hats off to you 🔥🔥🔥
11:03 electial dysfunction
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Lasers can create a long path of ionized particles in the atmosphere that lightning is more encouraged to then closely follow. There is a WIP defense system for coastal/mountainous cities that experience a ton of storms, using lasers that aim at highly polarized sections of clouds(using the same system that's used to navigate planes in storm clouds, maybe their own x-ray cams or satellite data, idk the info source might vary) to redirect the lightning to a lightning rod present right beside the source of the laser. Using this system lightning can be deterred away from other attractive and relatively tall objects that aren't supposed to be lightning rods.
The entire system ended up being a "car sized" laser and god knows how much it pulled from the power gird, but if you intend to use if for say an effective range of accuracy for only 5 to 10 meters instead of the absurd 2-8 km distance to the clouds, then you might be able to make a capacitor and battery design circuit used by modern coil guns to actually make something definable as a working lightning gun that can be carried on-hand, since lasers need to be stronger the longer they need to travel, they can also be weaker if they don't need to travel farther.
Anyway, more about the defense system cuz it's too cool to just leave out, is that it can be configured so multiple buildings can be made to communicate so as to share the "hits" from the cloud as a single spot doesn't get struck twice in short intervals, for example say if the tallest sky scraper's lightning rod has already been hit, the laser can then be turned off so the next tallest building can use it's own laser stationed right under it's own lightning rod to bait for the next lightning and slowly deplete the charge in the cloud.
This innovation is going to be a major contributor if we ever figure out a way to make lightning harvesting a viable source of energy with radical temperature superconductors someday. Sure it might not make sense today but maybe if our decedents move to Venus someday where storms are far more common and far more powerful it might just be the one thing they need to keep going.
There is a shorts video with the title of "This crazy laser can stop lightning" by Cleo Abram from a year ago that shows working footage, and is how I came to know of this method.
Edit: I should watch the video before commenting. huh.
Also as someone on youtube says, learn by pain, throw the box out when you thought the limits were removed
Wow, I love how easy you built the first lightning cannon, your really smart!
13:23 I was worried for a second there lol
i def thought that goat wwas about to get cooked too
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i thought that was the more realistic target
12:12
Plasma guiding fuel is stored in the tanks.
I am so sorry for my brainrot.
Bro, looking at that laser deadass made my eyes feel round, with little pointy points. Quality content.(damn)👍👍
I need more of this exact thing
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IS THAT A PIPE BOMB???!!! 11:17
Dude you're genuinely hilarious. So glad to have found to you! +1!
I like how the crunchlab thing that you made is literally just a taser
This is unhinged. Also not the killua reference with "lightning yo-yo"
I think the design would be improved if the 2 goo reservoirs were spherical instead of cylindrical, as the volume to surface area ratio is more efficient that way.
Also, maybe have them underneath the goo launcher to make the whole arrangement less top-heavy? Easiest way might be to just put them in a bag that hangs underneath.
...Also, make the bag wrinkly.
Also make the cannon longer when shooting to get the maximum efficiency.
Thank you for these amazing videos and the great ideas
It's so cute how all of my favorite science YTers always hang out together and you can hear them in each other's videos
This feels like a cobbled together weapon youd find in a random ass shack in fallout with the inventor dead not even 5 feet away
12:28 Ah, it is the "PISStol"
It was too excited when shooting
3:54 how the heck i understant what you were saing
The long string of conductive goo acts as a capacitive body, that tunes the tesla coil secondary way off resonance. It's like connecting a wire antenna to the thing, lowering the resonant frequency of that secondary. It still produces some RFHV, but way less.
8:24 is definitely just an overengineered taser
14:48 thats terrifying. LIQUID ELECTRICITY!? Thumbnail!!
Thank you for making a good video title which is descriptive informative and still fun
This is my favourite Allen video ever
Oh Allen, i sure love your video! it is always fun to watch!
Okay, so I have a theory on why the goop didn't look as cool as the water:
Because the water is not, well, goopy, it separates very easily (as we saw). I think as, it's leaving the nozzle, tiny water drops are flying off of the main stream. The sparking and arcing we see is the electricity within the main stream jumping to those little bits. Thus, the sparks increase as the water gets further from the nozzle.
This explains why the goop is not arcing in the air, as it does not separate as easily as compared to the water. You can see a little bit of arcs *just* after turning on the spray, and once it starts to lose pressure, as there is not enough pressure within the cannon to expel a solid stream. The science-semen is particulating into the air for those small moments, thus the electricity has something accessible and conductive to arc to.
But hey, that's just a theory. A science theory.
I’m thinking the same thing. The arcs are insulating air breaking down into plasma. But if the fluid is conductive then there might not be a strong enough field for breakdown of the fluid
2:10 safe to say he didnt have enough time.
It was gonna look so cool too
6:26 You can see the arc inside the tubes that comes out of the tank. Pretty cool-
The thing with the terawatt laser is that it's not maintaining that level of power for more than a few microseconds; basically just long enough for the light to travel the distance required to make the plasma channel. If you convert it to watt-hours (the unit we usually mean when we say watt), it's in the realm of a low cost computer power supply.
I like how the second I finished mark robers new video I get a notification for this
The droopy lightning was the highlight of the video, amazing stuff.
Try checking out using discharged bolts over steady current, also you should be able to aim it with a laser beam or charged particle beam
"Let's just say that" during your sponsor cracked me up.
"I can make the wood do weird things!" 9:49
70% percent of boys when they reach middle school.
Damn I'm having flashbacks at 12:40!
15:30 I think that the laminar goo-flow is SO laminar that it ends up just grounding itself 90% of the time and so that's why it doesn't arc until the laminar-ness goes away. I think. I wouldn't know, I'm not the one who built a freaking tesla minigun. Super cool!
This man created a functioning(but less powerful) lightsaber with a smaller handle before LITERAL HACKMITH THE ONES WHO HAVE TRIED FOR YEARS!!!!
The sparks come when it separates...I'd love to see this pushed out of the "shower" function on a water hose spray nozzle.
14:12 anyone else notice that the reservoirs emit light too?
11:58 That's way too freaking clean to be allowed....
There is an important distinction - the laser for calling down lightning was a picosecond duration terawatt range *pulsed* laser - quite different from a 10w continuous laser like you have.
Around 12min, I'm alone to see a more phallus than gun ? Something else can be, more?!
May be something to compensate Allen 😁
Great job, fun topic !
OMG HIS BACK I THOUGHT THE MYTHBUSTERS GOT HIM
He's on a podcast with Will & Co called Safety Third
15:15 discharge is seen where electric field (potential gradient) is the biggest, usually it's pointy or sharp things. Your laminar flow seems to be quite smooth, but turbulence creates the points of "unevenness", sharper turns
That's also the reason why you had attached a torus to the tesla coil: so that it didnt disharge too much and lose energy
That was great fun to watch! You didn't make a lightning gun, but you managed to invent electric bukkake.
I'm upset with youtube for only allowing me to like Allen's videos once.
the mini lightnings up the tube near the gas tank were cool @ 6:28
I remember seeing some sort of tesla or lightning thing and it was done in such a way that like an inch past the end the electricity arced perfectly straight, after which it did normal tesla tower things
There's something so hilarious about seeing the lightning droop out like water. Like, that's not something that's usually affected by gravity!
6:58 - are those intermittent flashes going back to the feeder-cylinder through the feeder-tube?? Pretty cool!
4:09 Holy shit, lightning being carried by fire looks like straight up sorcery.
Allen look up the Japanese "burton" 3d mid-air display. Closest thing we have to sci-fi 3d holograms. It focuses lasers at a single point in space to create a burst of plasma from the air itself. Takes a ton of power but it is possible to ionize air via laser. Could lead to an electrolaser or the illusion of a lightsaber blade
6:20 Lighting arcing up into the gas canister lol
11:50 For your Information, sir, my parents broke up way too late.