Hello Allen! 👋

He survived another recording process, congrats Allen

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

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.

12:35 two balls, a shaft and it shoots suspicious looking liquid. Lmao.

10:51 Electrical Dysfunction, or ED - is very common with larger holes. Don't feel bad 🤣

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.

The delivery on "So their using a laser that's a thousand times stronger than God." had me dieing...lmao

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.

10:50 bro I've never seen a flaccid lightning in my life 😂😂😂 what a time to be alive LMFAO

Glad that Argon isnt easily flammable after seeing that electrical arc ride back up the Argon tube back towards the tank @7:04 😅

He, in fact, did NOT have enough time to animate the comments out of his way 😂😂

15:05 The goup is hitting ground so there is no arking in the air because it is grounded. :)

seeing that arc fire backwards through the tube and into the argon container @6:22 made an indescribable chill go down my spine.

"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.

12:15 tonight on SMNN

12:09 that shape is definitely not an accident

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.

I love allen casually showing off the merch that was ordered to be destroyed

10:41 it also covers the target in water making more go to it

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. 🤣

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.

13:29 I THOUGHT THE DOG WAS THE TARGET

“They’re using a laser that’s a thousand times stronger than god” had me in tears

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

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!!

12:39 I like the decision to have a container on each side of the nozzle shooting tacky liquids. Great design!

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

“And this is the guy she told you not to worry about” Hilarious! I just now found your site. Great job!

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.

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

Stumbled onto your channel , Had a blast watching your vid...And as a Paramedic I'm sure I'll be seeing ya soon

This proves something I wanted to try out long ago, thank so soooo much. Will definitely give it a try

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.

The man, the NOT mythbuster, the legend RETURNS!

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 🔥🔥🔥

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

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

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.

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!

11:03 electial dysfunction

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.

I need more of this exact thing

10:55 I never expected to see electricity looking sad like that, it's literally something I've never seen before

13:23 I was worried for a second there 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.

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

Thank you for making a good video title which is descriptive informative and still fun

12:12 Plasma guiding fuel is stored in the tanks. I am so sorry for my brainrot.

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.

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

IS THAT A PIPE BOMB???!!! 11:17

"No one online sells deez nuts" Mrbeast:

Hey Alan, You Rock Bro!!! That's the most I've laughed at a KZfaq 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.

This is my favourite Allen video ever

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.

This is unhinged. Also not the killua reference with "lightning yo-yo"

Lightning takes the earliest path to ionize, so you should pave the way for it's ionization!

FWIW, if you want the laminar flow to be epic, you need it to 'stutter' so it can't form a path to ground. You'll get arcing in between each 'bullet'.

11:11 I bet he's got a great personality tho

12:28 Ah, it is the "PISStol"

Oh Allen, i sure love your video! it is always fun to watch!

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!!

There's something so hilarious about seeing the lightning droop out like water. Like, that's not something that's usually affected by gravity!

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

8:24 is definitely just an overengineered taser

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

ok but the lightning fire torch was actually baller af. stacking those damage types to avoid resistance, ofc.

14:48 thats terrifying. LIQUID ELECTRICITY!? Thumbnail!!

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.

That lasso looked like a noose.....welp I know how to go out with style now!

3:47 loving the hacksmith merch

2:10 safe to say he didnt have enough time.

I like how the second I finished mark robers new video I get a notification for this

The sparks come when it separates...I'd love to see this pushed out of the "shower" function on a water hose spray nozzle.

the lightning would follow the laser if there would be anything at the end of the laser, the electrons would want to go to.

14:12 anyone else notice that the reservoirs emit light too?

The droopy lightning was the highlight of the video, amazing stuff.

6:26 You can see the arc inside the tubes that comes out of the tank. Pretty 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.

11:58 That's way too freaking clean to be allowed....

14:17 Hi Chef

Bro, looking at that laser deadass made my eyes feel round, with little pointy points. Quality content.(damn)👍👍

The plasma is only visible when it has to jump so if it is in a solid line it is harder to see but idk about the smaller one

I'm upset with youtube for only allowing me to like Allen's videos once.

OMG HIS BACK I THOUGHT THE MYTHBUSTERS GOT HIM

11:00 I never thought I'd live long enough to see a droopy coil arc

I like how the crunchlab thing that you made is literally just a taser

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!

15:30 😳 "bustin feels good"

Would the fuel and fire from the smol pp saber have provided a more interesting effect? Laminar, but less conductive, flow might get a decent handheld arc with lots of arcs breaking out along it, yeah?

Modify a tazer so the prongs can fly at the target and make it more powerful.

the mini lightnings up the tube near the gas tank were cool @ 6:28

Sureeeeee it is Allen 12:20

You can really tell that Allen learned from the best. He used all the tips and tricks from Season 2 Episode 6 of Mythbusters

This video was pure joy to watch.