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)
15:06 - Because you have a good conductor and you're grounding the electricity properly. "The cooler it looks, the less dangerous it is" is true. We still want a cool-looking long-range one.
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. . .
@@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?
It's big brain time: Just shoot saltwater past the coil. Surface tension keeps the stream unbroken for the first few feet, and arcs can cover whatever small fragmentation gaps you end up with. So just hook up the coil to a watergun.
Add a metal nozzle at the end of the plastic tube and that way it conducts to that and propels the conductive gas out further, basically pressurize it for more distance
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
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
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.
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 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 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
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. 🤣
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.
2:23 Sad part is there are actually people out there that think you can go blind by watching a laser in a RUclips video lol...I wonder if they closed their eyes as kids when the intro to the Teletubbies came on and showed the baby in the sun lol.
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.
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
" Sir, you don't need a *Flame thrower* for self-defense. " " It's a fully automatic taser! you guys got fully automatic *guns,* don't ya? well this is *safer!* "
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.
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.
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.
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!!
The light show is based on ionization, when you have a thick laminate stream that's conductive it acts as a fairly Good conductor preventing ionization. When it's all broken up you force the electricity to make arcs between the water droplets.
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.
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
Laminar torch with some ions, preferably lithium or calcium added plus a microwave magntron to superheat the plasma. It makes trippy violet flames with indium or gallium while copper is blue green. The hottest flame is from iron and scandium though. Gets hot enough to cut metal like a laser.
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!
Since we're trying weird ideas have you considered chaff. By basically making a mist of tinsel, you create a direct path of conduction, this also would leave air gaps allowing for visible ionization.
It's amazing how you keep upgrading the parts and integrating other creator's designs, it's real life RPG progression xd I think the reason the bigger stream didn't looked as cool as the others is because what you were seeing was the ionized air and when you sent the electricity thru the water there was no more arcs which makes me wonder how would this look with a mist sprayer instead of a stream
The goo stream seems to stop sparking when it hits the ground. You only see the sparking because the electricity has nowhere else to go, but with a clear path to ground it takes the path of least resistance, which is the goo stream.
I think its because the stream was too linear or too large : the smaller stream was just helping to conduct the electricity a bit, so the light came from the electeicity going trough the air but the bigger stream was fully hiding the electricity inside of it
Found this by chance. Years ago I was experimenting with some circuit I made with the intention to power a TEA laser (one that can be made basically out of air and straight aluminum pieces). Circuit didn't work for that purpose, but very nicely created very thick plasma arcs between two points. It was basically a transformer oscillator with a pnp transistor. It used transformer and transistor saturations and it created very intense current pulses. That arc could melt glass, make it glow and at a given occasion I had the impression that thing produced a hole in an aluminum piece nearby. Like if a tiny bullet had impacted there. I was playing with electrodes and removed one extreme very quick. I can't verify this. That thing died and I dismantled it. but I suggest you experimenting with different plasma circuits. Also old TVs use electical lenses to redirect electrons (vacuum), maybe it can be done too in normal air with plasma... idk man...
Ya like a modified thunderstorm generator.. it’s is like extreme distillation on quantum level. You should increase output by like 5 or something. I have specs if u can’t find a mod
15:35 - Im assuming it looks cooler when slightly more broken up as it creates "edges" so to speak or peaks for a better term i guess in the water's pathway that actually allows for the arc to jump and make the cool lightning. While when the liquid stays laminar it has less to no peaks to actually spark and arc from hence remaining less cool looking and more like what mary jane probably went through in one spiderman comic
That, and the fact that the perfectly laminar flow forms a continuous conductor so the current just flows directly through it without ever arcing through air
Hello Allen! 👋
waffle
omg no way
It’s Michael! 🎉
Thanks for coming back Michael. You going to open sauce?
HOLY SHIIIIT
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 didn't think I'd ever see flaccid lighting in my entire life
Stealing that band name
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?!?
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
@@EggsBaconBeansAndToastbut 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
15:06 - Because you have a good conductor and you're grounding the electricity properly. "The cooler it looks, the less dangerous it is" is true. We still want a cool-looking long-range one.
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
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 easiest way to tell is that if it were practical, we'd be committing war crimes with it
15:24 this is because when electricity doesn’t have anything to arc to and transfer itself to it arcs out
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 💀
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?
It's big brain time: Just shoot saltwater past the coil. Surface tension keeps the stream unbroken for the first few feet, and arcs can cover whatever small fragmentation gaps you end up with. So just hook up the coil to a watergun.
Now that's one way to use a mini-saber! @ 4:05
Dang. Wasn't expecting to see y'all so far down in the comments.
Dam hacksmith how r u this far down 😭
I'm surprised that hacksmith only got 7 likes hahaha
why so down hahahhaha
ayyyy, hacksmith
"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.
Add a metal nozzle at the end of the plastic tube and that way it conducts to that and propels the conductive gas out further, basically pressurize it for more distance
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.
that's one way to explain it lmfao
Electrile dysfunction?
dibs on the band name
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...
YOU INVENTED A FLACID TESLA COIL
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
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.
4:44 WHAT IS THAT SHIRT ALLEN PAN!????
You missed the "allen buying the rights to mythbusters merch" saga?
@@lividsphincter4098oh god
He used to be the owner of myth busters merch before the big suits came out
“They’re using a laser that’s a thousand times stronger than god” had me in tears
…aaannnnnd Marty McFly 😂🤣
Jesus loves you
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
RUclips algorithm sucks I didn't see this video for 6 months
7 here
RUclips should be ashamed of itself
@@SwooshRipple IT cant because IT doesn't think. and the human reviewers are severeley overworked
This video kind of sucks, its clickbait. He told he shows some of " your weapon ideas" but he only showed one, probably his own
For real
hello Allen
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
@@CrimsonKeeper-7274 lol
lol
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.
I thought you were going to use the goat 13:26
did u want to see that?
@@ferrocerium123 yes
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! 🤣
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
His arc: "Fine, I'll do it myself!"
0:59 seeing styropyro made me gasp in terror
Same here!
Gotta be careful around that guy haha surprised the government hasnt given him a job yet@@Mikustan39
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...
The delivery on "So their using a laser that's a thousand times stronger than God." had me dieing...lmao
Amazing
The design plus the use of white goo is diabolical
Hitting the target with water that makes it conduct better that's cray cray ❤
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!!
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
Its beyond not easily flammable, if you somehow manage to make it burn using methods within reason id be very impressed.
2:23 Sad part is there are actually people out there that think you can go blind by watching a laser in a RUclips video lol...I wonder if they closed their eyes as kids when the intro to the Teletubbies came on and showed the baby in the sun lol.
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 😩
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
3:24 1.21 JIGGAWATTS?!
The man, the NOT mythbuster, the legend RETURNS!
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.
@@KillerjerickI thought it felt AWESOME.
" Sir, you don't need a *Flame thrower* for self-defense. "
" It's a fully automatic taser! you guys got fully automatic *guns,* don't ya? well this is *safer!* "
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.
@@hovesssharedspace8490 this comment made me laugh out loud. the forbidden arc jizzlets were the culmination of everything we worked for.
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 voltage will not reset in strength as it passes through the aersol glitter.
Maybe make tiny charged-capacitor glitter and spray or drop that. 😂
0:21 the heck bro
😂
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
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
9:09 gotta love how he just casually has a pocket flamethrower
He, in fact, did NOT have enough time to animate the comments out of his way 😂😂
"No one online sells deez nuts"
Mrbeast:
He changed the name of the candy bar 😞
@@RandomOnlineStrangers Can still buy deez nuts from his website
6:58 Love how the electricity back-propagates to the hose and to the tank.
13:23 I was worried for a second there lol
i def thought that goat wwas about to get cooked too
Ofcourse 💀
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.
“The smoothest goo I ever seen” 12:15
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.
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!!
The light show is based on ionization, when you have a thick laminate stream that's conductive it acts as a fairly Good conductor preventing ionization. When it's all broken up you force the electricity to make arcs between the water droplets.
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!
Did you get the umbrella?
11:03 electial dysfunction
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Also as someone on youtube says, learn by pain, throw the box out when you thought the limits were removed
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.
So the water breaks up too soon just like your parents got me dying😂 11:59
The droopy lightning was the highlight of the video, amazing stuff.
12:28 Ah, it is the "PISStol"
It was too excited when shooting
Big goo blaster at 12:29 🤣
IS THAT A PIPE BOMB???!!! 11:17
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
Laminar torch with some ions, preferably lithium or calcium added plus a microwave magntron to superheat the plasma. It makes trippy violet flames with indium or gallium while copper is blue green. The hottest flame is from iron and scandium though. Gets hot enough to cut metal like a laser.
11:00 I never thought I'd live long enough to see a droopy coil arc
8:24 is definitely just an overengineered taser
the moment i saw the tidal of the video i thought back to iron man 2's whiplash
OMG HIS BACK I THOUGHT THE MYTHBUSTERS GOT HIM
He's on a podcast with Will & Co called Safety Third
I like how the second I finished mark robers new video I get a notification for this
I love how everything perfectly fit and nothing was forced to look that way
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!
11:50 For your Information, sir, my parents broke up way too late.
Since we're trying weird ideas have you considered chaff. By basically making a mist of tinsel, you create a direct path of conduction, this also would leave air gaps allowing for visible ionization.
2:10 safe to say he didnt have enough time.
It was gonna look so cool too
14:12 anyone else notice that the reservoirs emit light too?
6:23 Here you can see the electrical arc in the polly tube close to the regulator. It made its way through the gas in the 3/8” tube
HAHA THE BELLE DELPHINE IN HIS SEARCH BAR @1:54
Finally someone noticed
@@allenpan I’m surprised no one did! I caught that instantly
6:58 - are those intermittent flashes going back to the feeder-cylinder through the feeder-tube?? Pretty cool!
It's amazing how you keep upgrading the parts and integrating other creator's designs, it's real life RPG progression xd I think the reason the bigger stream didn't looked as cool as the others is because what you were seeing was the ionized air and when you sent the electricity thru the water there was no more arcs which makes me wonder how would this look with a mist sprayer instead of a stream
14:48 thats terrifying. LIQUID ELECTRICITY!? Thumbnail!!
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" ;)
@@allenpanI thought "Myth Busted" was also copyrighted / part of the IP
The goo stream seems to stop sparking when it hits the ground. You only see the sparking because the electricity has nowhere else to go, but with a clear path to ground it takes the path of least resistance, which is the goo stream.
1:15 Bold of you to assume we even made it to primary school.
16:01 you just what…
I think its because the stream was too linear or too large : the smaller stream was just helping to conduct the electricity a bit, so the light came from the electeicity going trough the air but the bigger stream was fully hiding the electricity inside of it
4:09 Holy shit, lightning being carried by fire looks like straight up sorcery.
meet the pyro
the mini lightnings up the tube near the gas tank were cool @ 6:28
To be very honest, you are a wholesome pack of entertainment while learning science. Keep doing this type of content.
11:58 That's way too freaking clean to be allowed....
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
Found this by chance. Years ago I was experimenting with some circuit I made with the intention to power a TEA laser (one that can be made basically out of air and straight aluminum pieces). Circuit didn't work for that purpose, but very nicely created very thick plasma arcs between two points. It was basically a transformer oscillator with a pnp transistor. It used transformer and transistor saturations and it created very intense current pulses. That arc could melt glass, make it glow and at a given occasion I had the impression that thing produced a hole in an aluminum piece nearby. Like if a tiny bullet had impacted there. I was playing with electrodes and removed one extreme very quick. I can't verify this. That thing died and I dismantled it. but I suggest you experimenting with different plasma circuits. Also old TVs use electical lenses to redirect electrons (vacuum), maybe it can be done too in normal air with plasma... idk man...
Ya like a modified thunderstorm generator.. it’s is like extreme distillation on quantum level. You should increase output by like 5 or something. I have specs if u can’t find a mod
Sureeeeee it is Allen
12:20
10:41 it also covers the target in water making more go to it
"did somebody say conductive gas? *farts*" got me dying 🤣🤣🤣
15:35 - Im assuming it looks cooler when slightly more broken up as it creates "edges" so to speak or peaks for a better term i guess in the water's pathway that actually allows for the arc to jump and make the cool lightning. While when the liquid stays laminar it has less to no peaks to actually spark and arc from hence remaining less cool looking and more like what mary jane probably went through in one spiderman comic
That, and the fact that the perfectly laminar flow forms a continuous conductor so the current just flows directly through it without ever arcing through air