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  • Praise the Large-Footed Bunny, I was right! (Er.... eventually....)

    Now, where do I get my door prize?

    Don't want "the intellectual satisfaction of knowing I figured it out" (...eventually...).

    Want shiny moving thing, or TF00t coaster, or... beard clippings so I can grow my own TF00t clone...

  • If you create a black hole that sucks up the earth, we will be soooo pissed.

  • Alkali metals and water!

  • Beer Jug rambo kit protectorrrr???????

  • A God/supernatural being trap?

  • It is a quick and easy PA machine.

  • It's to puncture something obviously.

  • How to cut through the fabric of space-time for a time traveling experiment? I think you'll need more power then earth's gravity though.

  • time machine?

  • I thought that was cool,something we can build at home and ponder,going to check out the web site,thanks

  • OK, now that I've seen the potassium reaction discussion, I'm thinking that the central needle will hold a gob (1 gob = 0.25 chunks :) of K metal, with the intention to hold it a) somewhat steady, and b) under the water's surface. That does mean the rickety contraption won't be involved in the measurement, just the mechanical side of things.

    With a nice clear jug, distilled water, and a decent high-speed camera, you might get to see the "colour of K gas"... or a busted jug and KOH everywhere!!

  • You're shattering something and then revealing the unknown with a high speed camera. Maybe a ballon?

  • sonoluminescence

  • Thank you TF. Don't stop. Don't stop the reasoned vitriol, don't stop the measured criticisms, and don't stop the explanations and demonstrations of what knowledge actually means and is. Thanx.

  • Perhaps it's to mesure the tensile strenght of something??? Hmmm..

  • The epoxy backing showed that the dropping needle was not yet inside the pitcher.

  • rotation of the earth again?

  • Here's my guess: Na, K & NaK have different conductivities. The falling needle will both start a reaction between Na & K and also start the timer (with split second accuracy). The change in conductivity over time will be measured & used to estimate the reaction rate of Na + K -> NaK but with greater accuracy than has been done heretofore.

    But to hedge my bets I also have $10 that says I'm wrong.

  • Lets see here. A heavy plastic jub, nitting needles. I guess it is a chemical experiment of somesort. maybe it has something to do with the potassium that you are experimenting with.

  • I am going to guess it has something to do with a catalyst driven reaction.

  • How the hell does an experiment like you were doing cost one hundred thousand dollars !?!? ( not including materials ) ... where does all the money go!?

  • How some gas or something (in a balloon) interacts with something?

  • My guess is that it is used for some sort of electrolysis reaction, the needles on the left and right are the anode and cathode, the needle in the middle has me a bit stumped... maybe its for measuring some parameter as the reaction goes on such as the change in pH? anyway that's my guess... can't wait for the answer

  • It must be nice to hand hundreds of thousands of dollars to throw around on little science fair projects that are discovering nothing new. I wish I were as wealthy as you Thunderbag$

  • what field does thunderf00t work in?

  • As should be obvious to even the most dimwitted individual, this apparatus is designed to conclusively and unambiguously prove the existence of the Christian God.

  • The mad bastard's trina' split the atom!

  • Thunderf00t, you should be a teacher.

  • possibly something to do with surface tension

  • Prolly ta stab somethin' i reckon.

  • Hmm. There Be Dragons. Dragons - and subterfuge.

    I suspect we'll be able to measure accurately the rate of amalgamation (wrong word, I know) of the Na with the K. But then, a digital timer would be simpler...and I think I detected one in the original NaK video.

    So maybe the rate of the reaction NaK has with a PTFE needle with a known mass-force acting on it.

    Of course, I know it's "Thunderf00t's Frog" (like Schrödinger's Cat, but messier and less disturbing to precocious 5-year-olds).

  • @VinylMechanic Maybe something happens at a level where a digital timing device isn't accurate, and Tf00t is going to use gravity to time it. Air resistance could still get in the way though, even with a lance-thing like that.

  • @TheReaverOfDarkness I agree - it would be helpful to know how (or if) that central needle is going to be held in place. As it is now, the friction with the cross-piece seems to be awfully indeterminate... The air resistance of the cross-piece would also be pretty hard to determine in advance - as would precise "triggering" of the wooden pawl and fabric hinge. So maybe I'm on the wrong track? If the triggering, the falling, and the friction coefficients are irrelevant.... Hmmm. More thinking!

  • @VinylMechanic There could be something here that's throwing us off. If we can't think of a solution involving that which seems most important, we might try ignoring the obvious and seeking that which is less noticeable for answers.

  • Divine intervention... you want to see if you can get god to stop the knitting needle, right?

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  • @JohnGolbunny Ummmm...these are my thoughts. Why did you plagiarize my comment? This is very peculiar.

  • The apparatus is to show us how to stab the eye out of a poor, helpless bunny-rabbit, right?

  • praise the lord

  • cookie jar trap

  • @BorrieBeats i'm with you on that one

  • Or it has something to do with a chemical reaction you expect the needle to have in the fluid.

    OR you want to measure a property of the fluid, for example the viscosity of the fluid. The last would be very difficult, because there are too many variables to give a good answer to it.

    So probably some kind of chemical reaction probably.

  • Whatever experiment it is it will be a process over a period of time!

  • Cant wait : D

  • It's going to prove God exists.

    ;)

  • thanks tfoot

  • it is a safety trigger, that you can attach a string or cable to so you can release from behind a shield. Perhaps you intend to place that index card there and pile some potassium on top so that when you trigger, the element is pushed into the container along with the metal of the needle. To melt it? Fuse it? Perhaps create an alloy, or increase the energy level of the reaction...

  • It will tells us all the weird ideas random people on the internet can think of.

  • I knew what Picard was going to say at the very begining of this video before he even said it because i recognized that particular moment in star trek by his expression alone.

  • measure how fast the knitting pin is eaten/dissolved in some rather nasty reaction expectedly consisting of sodium and or potassium .. thereby requiring a safe triggering mechanism. Or maybe the time for the pin to sink through some pending reaction can give us a hint of the density or other properties before the reaction completes and forms an alloy.. Looking forward to see what the experiment shows

  • I didn't know that PTFE is attacked by anything at all, but of course, nothing is invincible...

  • Looks like you want to combine two substances from a safe distance. Perhaps puncturing a membrane with the needle?

  • Is it something to do with nuclear magnetic resonance studies of sodium and potassium? just having a punt.....

  • can't wait

    

  • Hmm... Wood Knitting needles. A device with three states that can presumably be operated remotely. Possible a way to break a vial of some reactive metal? I've seen this quite a few times though. Wood has well known buoyancy... did you make some kind of way to measure specific gravity?

  • Weird sex toy?

  • Cold Fusion?

  • @hagerty1952 hydrogen engaging in a infinite and regenrating destruction of its own electrons, but to start the process an energy equal to an explosion of a nuclear warhead is required.

  • he's making a nuke out of potassium! when the nail drops into the ball - BAM!

  • @JuicyChimp sure you weren't shot in the head?

  • @JuicyChimp It's not that there will be nothing his consciousness no longer exists to perceive anything.

  • @JuicyChimp Why should anyone believe a word you say. Anecdotes are not evidence for anything.

  • Jesus Nailing Device???

  • Sounds brilliant!

  • WOW!! TF knows everything! You know he does because his integrity is perfect, although he never states so in his vids.

    Go ahead, ask him anything about economics, and he (with his expertise) will give you definite answers.

    TF knows society is his...

  • to determine strain/stress curves?

  • Oh come on guys, this one's obvious! He's Jigsaw. He's working on his latest torture device.

  • If there's a cat involved, I'm calling PETA. Schrodinger be damned.

  • why does he inject sodium potasinate??? is that what he said he is injecting?

  • what is he doing i dont get it

  • @JuicyChimp Explain your consciousness to me before you existed. If your parents had never made the choice to give birth to you what would you experience or where would you be? If you wake up after millions of years what do you think your body would look like and what if you died in an explosion?

  • I'm thinking the key might be in the trigger, what might necessitate either remote execution or a quick mechanical release? That I don't know

  • Is it a device for measuring how thick a liquid is. like viscosity?

  • nice to see some more science

    after all that irritating religion & youtube politics "stuff"

  • you are giving it away at the beginning, must be a warp engine

  • ...hmm...looks like he's scramming a mini reactor of some type. Peanut butter or phosphorescent scrapings?

  • do you remember before you were born? well thats what its like when you die.

  • @jeremiah4448

    Lies

  • @JuicyChimp Then give me proof, and by that I don't mean biblical or religious rhetoric, of what happens when we die. Time and time again the concept of the afterlife is debunked. thousands of people die every day and you would think that at least one of them would be allowed to come back for a moment and say 'Yeah, this shit be real'. And the reason we perceive the passage of time, even after sleep, is because our brain is still functional, something that STOPS happening after death

  • titrating/hermetic seal piercing/polarity changing/electromagnetic plasma arc apparatus.

  • @JuicyChimp Aside from your bad taste in pedophilia jokes atheists, while enjoying a good drink from time to time, use logic and rationale more often, per individual, than the collective whole of religious followers combined. And as for 'shit dunking' I'm going to assume that it is a favored past time of yours as I have never personally heard of this, nor do I care to, so have fun with that

  • 134 people hate pitchers.

  • Not enough information, I can think of 100 things to do with that apparatus. Simply not enough information to accurately say and guess correctly.

  • It's clearly for killing a small vampire Jesus made out of pork meat.

  • awww. he has ad, now

  • It's a Holy-Spirit trap!

  • I thought that anybody who thought they understood quantum mechanics didn't understand quantum mechanics.

  • This is classic Thunderf00t! I can't wait.

  • Gravity bong?

  • My first impulse is to say that it's an apparatus for testing the effects of an impact disturbing a liquid. You've got a needle that free falls into a jug -- the jug indicates to me that either you're planning on containing a liquid, or something that's going to react violently. (Though not so violently that it would destroy a jug.) Maybe you're planning on showing us a reaction that you don't want to set off with your fingers?

  • It seems like a really archaic setup for demonstrating the concept of seeding a crystal structure. You place a seed crystal onto the tip of the knitting needle and have it be carefully dipped into a liquid which can crystallize (such as silicon, except not in this case or you would melt your whole setup) and have the seed crystal generate a crystal structure from the liquid material inside the cup. However, my idea seems impractical considering how simple the setup is -> kitten execution.

  • i have no idea what the kit is for, but heres to eagerly awating the answer.

  • @JuicyChimp I believe the Vatican already melded science with God and no new answers came about, only the same old answers from both sides being put together. Take out the 'God' aspect of anything and you're left to find the answers on your own in a logical and rational manner. If more people did this we might just get the answers we seek a bit more quickly

  • Fill the jug half way with sand and study the shape of the impact crater when the needle strikes it with a known velocity.

  • @JuicyChimp who have you been "bumming into submission"? ...I hope it was consensual.

  • If he wants to know the unkown all he has to do is take what McKenna called "the heroic dose" not been there yet but i have heard quite a few storys about it^^

  • pop a ballon full of some substance into another substance to see the reaction

  • how many mice should be inside until one of them gets killed by the falling stick

  • @JuicyChimp we did land on the moon. did you know it costs billions to put someone into space? Should we do that for fifteen minutes to entertain bafoons who come up with conspiracy theory instead? That money is better used elsewhere for something we haven't done. Next you will say the space shuttle is fallacy. Obviously, if we can do that, we were likely on the moon.

  • The principle features are, as you said, that the jug has good optical properties, as well as the fact that the apparatus has three states: a potential energy state, a kinetic energy state, and and new potential energy state created from the release of energy involved with operating the hinge.

    Maybe the density or viscosity of a substance could be measured, or it could be energy related...?

  • No idea but I'm sure it will be awesome.

  • building a better mouse trap

  • david mitchell teleport device! brilliant

  • Maybe he is going to push the knitting needle through a balloon without it bursting.

  • Likwahid Nitrohajjin ... Thunderf00t will get Neosporin to go BOOOM

  • A cliffhanger for subs and donations. I wonder if Sagan would have done the same. Actually I don't.

  • Abortioner

  • TF I respect you and your views, but you're an arrogant bastard which makes you a huge douche.

  • @bnz500 Yeh he's a bit arrogant, but not THAT much I would call him a douche... Not in the slightest! He's just not very polite that's all, nothing to cry about.

  • Kitten execution device. What do I win?

  • @kingziff

    oh man i could only hope so.. fapfapfapfap

  • @kingziff If you can see whether the kitten's alive or dead, I guess it's not a quantum mechanics experiment.

  • @kingziff He's making a variation of Schrödinger's Cat!

  • I don't know, but I cannot wait for it.

  • QUANTUM MECHANICS? ONLY 1 OUT OF ABOUT 10,000 PEOPLE UNDERSTAND IT.

  • @john17972

    Who was it that said if you think you understant quantum physics you don't understand quantum physics? Theinman?

  • @Roenazarrek Richard Feynman

  • I think it's a self piercing tool.

  • the reason I watch you out of the many different atheistic people on YouTube is because you use real science, real calculations, and real logic to back up your arguments. There are some that just yell at the camera with common sense when you can speak calmly (usually) and explain the science of why the person is wrong.

    Please don't stop making videos soon, and please put any more scientific experiments that you do on YouTube. I would also love to see the purpose behind the research you were d

  • @TheJoeOption On the otherside of the coin common sense everyone can understand and is harder to ignore as "arcane science stuff"

  • Holy flying spaghetti monster shit!

    I don<t have the kind of balls it takes to be if only partially responsible for a research project that burned about 100K$ in only 3 days! Can you say "undue pressure for """results""" "! ;)

  • I believe it's for easy baby slaughter.

  • Hmm...something in Chemistry, I bet...how the metal rod reacts with the NaK?

  • It has to be something to study electrostatics.

  • @jaymthegenius How many people said man can't fly?

  • @SubTachyon Some one said there are 6 000 000 physicists in the world which out of the approximate 6 000 000 000 people in the world gives you 1 in 1000.

  • @turbojosh3285 Aren't there 7 billion people now?

  • @Phoboskomboa Still close enough to be how Thunderf00t came up with 1 in 1000.

  • @turbojosh3285 Yeah, I was wrong anyway. Well, to within 1 significant figure it's 7, but the number is 6.7 something.

  • he's going to brake a vile of reactive metal in the water,i think.

  • ....Are you Pierce Brosnan?

  • Hmmm, my guess is that the rig is meant primarily to puncture a container of some sorts placed within the jug, and to do it safely and somewhat remotely. From that assumption my guess is that you want to mix two things that result in a lot of energy being released. Maybe you plan to mix a bit of the Na and/or K previously seen in the video with water?

  • @Cketzalcoatl i think you're right.

  • He's  dddddddddssssssssssmmmmmmmoart !

  • Im shit out of luck knowing what its used for.

    But I will enjoy watching it and seeing the maths for it.

  • nerd alert

  • Cool.

    

  • I must disagree with the idea the 1 in 1000 people has a grasp of quantum mechanics.

    To quote my favorite physicist "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics."

    Richard Feynman, in The Character of Physical Law (1965)

  • @Loathomar he said have a grasp of it. semantics ftw

  • @Galgamax2 So you think that is reasonable that 1 in 1,000 people in the world grasp something that "nobody understands"? Ya, I call BS on that. People with a PhD in Physics, sure, that's not 1 in 1,000 or even 1 in 100,000. This is 6.6 million people in the world that grasp a subject that nobody understands. Maybe it is 66K has a grasp on it.

  • @Loathomar Lol 6 000 000/6 000 000 000 simplifies to 1/1000

  • @turbojosh3285 reading fail

  • This is the sort of original stuff I subscribed for, sounds good.

  • You are testing the force it takes to pemiate a condom.

  • Finding the density of liquids, or how much they slow the aperatus down?

  • Debunking Nephies water reaching escape velocity hypothesis?

  • It's a jug and some knitting needles.......... I think

  • Will it pierce! On today's episode: Bunnies.

  • It's obvious that it is a creationist trap. To detain and transport "busted" creationists!

  • it's a remote controlled sweater-knitting apparatus.

    Damn I feel dumb.

  • to break the surface tension of a liquid

  • maybe a machine to test fluids thickness?

    that isn't very cool

  • Thunderfoot, I have no idea! Thats why I watch your videos :)

  • are you recreating the big bang!? fuck the cern particle accelerator shit. you can do it with a jug and some knitting shit.

  • That needle is going to stab a wad of uranium and reach critical mass.

  • Its a small baby animal killing device.

    

  • It looks like you want to dunk something in a solution from a distance. Potassium in water perhaps?? Or on a funnier note, Automatic Circumcision Machine (ACM)! This has been attempted but, never mastered. Someone put there penis into the unknown machine and see what happens. Hope it doesn't cost you your man-hood....XD lol Did Prince Albert make that machine???

  • Oh please make something explode!

  • it's an anal probe. 

  • imma take at guess at some kind of non Newtonian fluid

  • i think that this device is used like the "VEBE Consistometer" , which measures the remolding ability of concrete under vibration, only this one is for different material.

  • It's designed to catch Shrodinger's Cat and destroy Copenhagen. The city, not the interpretation

  • Hi going to be the first man ever to knit a scarf out of Sodium-Potassium alloy.

  • @CntrBrdr I'll top it with a commercially viable Na-K umbrella, now let it rain!

  • It looks like a device to pop a balloon (or piece a membrane of some sort) from a safe distance.

  • 1 in a 1000 understand quantum theory? What an exageration. Maybe one in 10.000 or maybe even less.

  • @RTRVII so he gives humanity a little undeserving credit, whatever. most of the people watching this video understands what hes getting at.

  • super dense gasses maybe.

  • I have absolutely no idea, but I'm very interested to find out!

  • I bet it's for dissecting the brains of religious people.. :D