Can an Umbrella Made of Water Stop the Rain?
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I check if an umbrella made of water would stop the rain
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Now all we need is an earth umbrella and we have the four umbrellaments
As crazy it may sound it would probably be the most effective between all those
Everything changed when the fire umbrella nation attacked.
So... a normal umbrella (giant leaf)
@@My_Name_Suc I was thinking a massive slab of granite on a stick
Maybe a sandblaster umbrella. RIP anyone standing nearby
Obviously, the water is not viscous enough to deflect the rain drop ! But the HONEY UMBRELLA should work...
It's so stupid i love it 😂😂😂
he must so make it
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No, stop!
@@TheActionLabJust Do It™️
"So I'm not getting wet right now" Literally see water drops on his shirt lmao.
Nuh uh
@@the_finkledinkle yuh huh
I'm sorry it was me
"Dang it Chris, you got my shirt wet"
someone knows nothing about getting wet.
but did you try an umbrella made out of umbrellas
Yes the floor is made up of floor
@@weo9473 hMm yes, the floor here is made of floor
loll :v Have you ever drunk water made of water
@@AkaizWoof the fire is hot and so am I
How about targeting individual rain drops with a laser system to vaporize the ones that will hit you, and ignore the rest?
Laser umbrella 🤔. I like it 👍
Sound like a mechanism I heard about long ago, it was basically a "wall of lasers" that could detect mosquitoes and kill them if they cross it, the "wall" only activated if insects were coming thru
XKCD _What if?_ article 119 discusses almost exactly this, featuring such quotes as "this is slow enough that you wouldn't run into any *direct* problems with relativity, but..." and "Needless to say, autoclaves are not really a popular place to live." If Randall starts an article with "It's not a very practical idea," you _know_ you're in for a good read. Yes, limiting it to only drops that would hit you would make it _less_ infeasible, but it's still _entirely infeasible._
Sounds way too technologically advanced
@@wilsonsanabia4259 where?
I could imagine a standing umbrella that does this. It even keeps other people from entering your personal space.
And cools off yourself with the little drops you get
And adds an extra 100 to your water bill
What if instead of that just 360 degree light that instantly burns all water into vapor?
@@Colin866lmao even the world's brightest flashlight can't do that
It's probably because of how much the light spreads
"so im not getting wet right now" visibly sees the water droplets on his shirt
Next up: "Can a shield out of fire protect you from getting burnt!"
What you need is a solid umbrella. Since something like a big dish or shield would be heavy, you can make it out of something like waterproof fabric. Then give it a vertical handle so it’s easier to hold. If you really want to get fancy, make it able to fold up when you’re done. That sounds like a crazy feat of engineering, though. No one’s going to invest in making something like that.
😂
Man, you have to patent that idea of yours. May make you rich once our technology advances enough for such an engineering marvel.
Actually bro you are genius this could really work You are gifted
Hahaha, I was thinking the same, but in fact, what if he just follows the instruccion but he ended with a thing complety different from an actual umbrella.
r/wooosh
Rather than use something relatively intangible like air/fire, or something as amorphous as water, perhaps it would be better to make an umbrella out of a solid material. Maybe some sort of fabric made of nylon, polyester, and pongee, connected to thin metal spokes to help hold its shape. You could even make the spokes fold inward when not in use for ease of portability... Actually now that I think about it, there's no way that would work. Absolute crazy talk.
That just sounds too complicated to work...
Nah, it should fold outwards to make the water stay away from you when folded up so that you can pour the water away from you before entering buildings 👀
Darn you, I literally made this same joke, then scrolled down to see you beat me to it... X'D
yeaahhh sounds too complicated, all those parts working together in unison just to deflect some rain, maybe if someone invents a large jacket that is really long and waterproof and could be worn over the clothes....
why not just take a tea break? while it rains? listen to music / read book? sounds lovely when it rains
I definitely didn't searched for this video, but this was a great experiment. Thank you.
Make a laser umbrella that just zaps all those dubious drops 😂
You should make an electric umbrella. Pretty much like a stun baton. It'll simply paralyze the water before it touches you, and also eat away all that pesky lightning.
It's going to NEED all that 'pesky lightning to power it up!
@@trevorvanbremen4718 that's why it eats it
Too bad you'd need a feredae cage to test it.
Ah yes, but make sure that the part you hold with your hand is *made out of metal* for the best results :D
@@TripleSevenStarsRight, that way you can dry yourself up if you were wet before using the umbrella, a brilliant idea!
Air, fire, water... I guess the next umbrella will be a sand blaster?
Electricity ⚡⚡⚡
you mean Earth? earth umbrella should do!
what about the classic jizz-brella
@@avatar7166 You mean a cave?
I want a molten rock umbrella.
I absolutely love the fact that this is going to get everyone around you soaking wet while you stay dry 😂
Next up: lightning umbrellas 😂
This looks like it would be a fun addition to certain attractions at a water park.
One time I went to a waterpark with something similar to this
itd just be a fountain you can walk under wouldnt it
@@bijeshshrestha2450ya but you have a bunch of water drops all around it so the water umbrella becomes the refuge
a lot of water parks have that
Or just as a fountain
Hear me out, this might seem weird but imagine making an umbrella using a fabric like polyester that is waterproof. 🧐
The next thing you will say is that spoons should be made of hard materials, rather than air, fire or water?! NEVER!
@@tatianaes3354 Woah, that's a great idea too. Like imagine a spoon made of steel! 🤯
@@justinch14 and chromium plating
@@naurseakart1190 Sick...
that just sounds insane, how would you get the fabric to move so fast and the constant amount of fabric you would use up would be to expensive
😂😂😂 the micheal superbacker lore is crazy
So to make a water umbrella, get yourself a firetruck and try to deflect every droplet, eventually run out of water and just ride the firetruck instead.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
You can build a Big Floating Saucer (BFS) on a body of water and use the seemingly unlimited water below you as both the propellent and the umbrella. And yeah, to the outsiders it'd be an U.F.O. (Unidentified Floating Object) xd.
@@ccelik97 Yes that is what U.F.O. Stands for 😐 Flying is just floating on air. 🫤
Just make the firetruck a giant rain catcher aswell infinite POWER.
@@peterkoopman5059uses rain to deflect rain !
What about a propeller umbrella? It could spin fast enough to hit all the raindrops, and it might even let you jump higher!
@@OttiNatorLP the "heads off" umbrella
@@OttiNatorLP perhaps it could be smooth underneath somehow
This is the worst idea yet
@@snyper105 i've seen worse! Have you seen the thin blue line flags? 🤣
What if you added so many blades that it became a single unit that was impenetrable for water?
“Im not getting wet” shoulder soaked and drops of water on shirt 😂
People around me trying to kill me before I get one of these XD
Long ago, the four umbrellas lived together in harmony … then everything changed when the Fire umbrella attacked. The Earth umbrella vanished when the world needed it the most
Nice!!!!!!
isn't the earth umbrella just a regular umbrella
@@dripthanos5595no no, he's got a point
@@dripthanos5595More like a giant piece of rock
Avatarbrella
When you are worried about all the people around you getting wet with your high speed water umbrella, but not about the fire umbrella you tried a while ago.
the rain will put them out, its fineee
When i was young i thought up a wearable umbrella that used static electricity to deflect the water. i didn't know that water was charge positive and negative so only half would deflect
Bro took fighting fire with fire to a different level 😂
Just love this guy's nerdy reaction and confidence while standing inside water umbrella says "i am completely dry" while his shirt seems taking shots of water drops 😂😂😂😂😂
I couldn't tell if he was messing with us or not!!
@Sorin2120 lol yeah 😂
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
Hear me out: an umbrella that shoots some kind of waterproof fabric to each side to completely stop the rain. Perhaps we could even create it so the fabric is reusable, maybe even retractable…
You're crazy, this will never work.
Hmm, that sounds like an ... Umbrella?
Now how on earth are you gonna pack in ALL that fabric? 😂
Nah, it'll never catch on. We just gotta keep trying for these elemental umbrellas
Sounds like a scam to me.
"It uses water to protect you from the rain, so I'm not getting wet right now" He says as you can watch small droplets of water hitting his shirt. This just wastes water and actually protects you from the rain less than a normal umbrella.
😂😂😂
This feels like the kind of thing where a water umbrella is a really bad idea, but it leads to some very different and useful application elsewhere.
Like sanctioned urinal fights, where the objective is to block the other guy's stream with yours and get as little pee on you as possible.
@@adamb89 , LOL
Firefighters use something like that to prevent hot air from reaching and burning them.
@@adamb89guys do that?!?!?
@@liliu5250 Oh yeah, where did you think the phrase "don't cross the streams" came from? Ghostbusters?
I love how involved his family is in helping him with the umbrella shenanigans! 😂☔
I wish his wife was in bikini 👙
Me too!
Could not wait to try it during a real down pour.
But I doubt it will work for heavy down pours or flashflood or any rain that causes road to look like rivers.
😂😂😂 damn that shot at Michael at the end was just unessisarry
well thats one way to so social distancing 😂
0:07 he says he’s not getting wet but his shirt is getting wet 😂
At this point it might be easier to go straight to the source and eliminate the rain altogether. How about building a laser powerful enough to vaporize any rain clouds above you?
Rain clouds are already vapor Edit: I was wrong, they are condensate
Pitch that to Bill Gates!
You kow where rain comes from right? We can get to the REAL source.
@@phazeraveDouble-vaporize them then
@@phazerave When they are raining then they have a lot of condensed water in them.
4:57 when you get home from a road trip.
I need a combo between this guy and Mark Rober
"I'm dry under here" right sleeve drenched in water, water droplets everywhere. Mmk. lol
Interesting! My parents have a kitchen faucet that has a setting where it uses a laminar flow “shield” to avoid spray from an inner higher pressure stream. It works pretty well in my experience, so you can use the high-pressure spray without water getting all over the place. Similar concept to a water umbrella!
I also have that
so like theres an outer layer of water around the spray?
I NEED THIS!
tell faucet brand
@@sarahmellinger3335I have one it's delta
I wonder whether four very thin, closely spaced layers of fast-flowing water might be enough to deflect raindrops. The top layer would deflect them a bit; the second rather more, and the third rather more again. Finally, the fourth might carry them along.
Get this man on the idea generation team right now!
He should revisit this idea and make adjustments like this, it might actually work.
What if you used air to slow down the drops first? Then used water? Sounds like a great way to make a ridiculously impractical umbrella.
@@surgio98 first layer fire then water than air than earth, the avatar umbrella
Might work because it disturbs the water droplets shape in between layers
There’s so much pressure he’s going to start flying any moment now.😂
"i think im done taking suggestions from youtube commenters" is his wisest decision to date.
Next video: Can you hear rain fall in the quietest room painted with blackest black in a vacuum powered by car turbines?
😂
Wat
And lightened by the brightest flashlight
No you cant
Imagine if the quietest room was painted with the darkest color and you had to stay there
I figured it out, what you need to do is freeze the water into a dome-like shape that you can hold over your head. Can't believe no one's thought of this. Although, now that I think of it, maybe instead of frozen water you could cut down on the weight with something like waterproof cloth, or maybe thin plastic. But then you'd need to add some structural supports in there.
But how would you easily store it indoors?
@@kowhaifan1249don't listen to them, this will never work out
@@kowhaifan1249 just unfreeze it, so it becomes water again
That sounds terrible, you couldn't store it easily due to those long support frames. At best you'd need to remove or reattach the fabric each time
@@polkjmsb what if we made those support frames retractable? does the technology exist for this?
I love how you just made a bold faced lie at the very beginning of the video then continued like it didn't just happen XD
"So I'm not getting wet right now" as more droplets appear on his shirt 😂😂
Environmentalists - Save water! This guy :
I think we got plenty of water on earth tbh
@@Just_a_Piano_Yes, we have a lot of water on the earth. But you forgot about the fact that just 3% of the whole amount of water that we have on the planet is not salty. Even so, only 1% is proper for consumption. That's still a lot of water, but nothing is endless.
@@Just_a_Piano_ Water? Yes. Water that you can drink? No. And he is wasting drinkable water. I hope i explained
@@ErickTavianRefundini We got nature staws and stuff that apparently lets you drink literal mud. I'm pretty sure I'd be fine in salt water. Also you DO realize you can get the salt out of the water right? Just take a bit of ocean water, boil the salt out let it turn back into water and boom clean water
@@Just_a_Piano_ I know that we can take the salt out of the water, there are plenty of ways you can do that, but do you know that drinking water with absolutely no salt causes the same dehydration effects as drinking salty water? Because your cells always try to keep the same amount of minerals inside them, I order to keep them alive. This is called homeostasis. But when you drink water with absolutely no minerals, they lose the minerals inside them to balance the quantity of salt inside and out of them. Guess what: your cell becomes dehydrated. The same happens when you drink salty water, your cells lose water in order to increase the concentration of minerals inside them. Research shows that for every bottle of salty water you drink, 2 bottles of pure water are necessary for you to keep hydrated. In conclusion, why not save the clean water we already have, instead of wasting money just to clean the water we got dirty?
What about a layered approach? If you have several layers of low pressure laminar flow within the one umbrella, the rain drop will decrease it's momentum while passing through each layer. Would add complexity to the build, but with 2-3 layers, that could decrease the momentum enough to deflect a max velocity free-fall drip of water
Have it on my desk monday prototyped and ready for testing
ideas like this are what i expected from the video not holding a hose above your head
@@Dexteritas55😂😂😂
@@adimitri6445If the KZheadr was intelligent do you seriously think he’d be a KZheadr?
@@bloodisfrightening1203 Do the names Veritasium, Smarter Every Day, Mark Rober, The Backyard Scientist, Stuff Made Here, or Nile Red come to mind? There are some exceedingly smart KZheadrs. Showing science to the next generation is always positive. Side note, context is key. For this video specifically it's meant to be taken lightly. Hence the air and fire umbrella...
I appreciate this engineer more than the original air (kickstarter) dreamer. That was just pure hot air, packaging an imagination he couldn't back up with real science.
The fire one was a troll pick 😂😂😂
To give more momentum to falling droplets with the same flow speed try denser fluid. Mercury umbrella should work.
urgh
It might work but at what cost...
@@ragusauce6573 the galinstan alloy is the safer option
I still cannot believe that he compared pure clean beautiful gorgeous rain droplets to some dark u culd even say BLACK water droplets filled with devilish tar and dirt they probably stolen everything they own and are drug dealers
The laminar flow of the water umbrella can be improved I think. Maybe a circular plate instead of a square plate? And maybe a 3d printed inversed cone part to split the water more evenly, instead of just letting water splash into the plate directly. I mean, the momentum problem will still occur I guess but it could be a much more successful laminar flow.
What do you even intend to do with the improved laminar flow if the moment is always the issue... I mean, a laminar flow wasnt even needed in the first place sunce we all saw the jet worked way better... its just a good thumbnail material which I think he did a preeeety good job with already HaH!
would look nicer but wouldn't help the slightest bit with making an umbrella....
@@maninimahapatra649 It has to look nice to get Michael to back it :)
Before you mentioned momentum, I was thinking that the system would work better if you could initially deflect the water at a steepish downward slant. Obviously this decreases the shield radius of your water brolly (wally?), but… would it do better at absorbing and deflecting the energy of vertically falling drops? Even if it would, how do you make a (parabolic?) deflector with the optimal shape to create even laminar flow? Absolutely no idea!
"Who cares about the people around me, I'm dry..." Finally some science I understand.
"Not getting wet right now" water droplets all over his shirt lmao
The way her wife helps him is appreciatable No matter how crazy and weird his ideas were she helps.
your grammar is killing me
@@focidhomophobicii2426at first I didn't noticed but after reading your reply I read it again and how can dude messed up so bad 😭
@@TheVirtualArena24 her wife 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@DragonOfTheMortalKombat glad he didn't said his husband 💀
@@focidhomophobicii2426 thank you 🗿 Rip if you died 🤡
We had: - air umbrella - fire umbrella - water umbrella Next: would the earth umbrella work?
The last umbrella
No a sky umberella may work (as it acts as umberella which technically protects us from astrostriods).
The top comment says it's honey umbrella. So let's see what happens.
the four umbrellas of the apocalypse
How about plasma umbrella?
You know what you must now do: the earth umbrella.
You might search for mushroom or 360deg fountain sprinkler heads. I don't know what sort of pressures the laminar flow breaks down, but you can achieve a pretty good (very good) "umbrella" spray pattern. Interesting experiment for sure. Thx !
Imagine walking down a street nice and dry, and some dude with a water umbrella shooting water at high speeds all around him.
if your having trouble overcoming the momentum with velocity, try increasing the volume. make the water umbrella so thick that the drops won’t get through. you could even add multiple layers to it
layers was my suggestion too. laminar flow may be harder with thicker water?
This is actually smart
What if he just dropped the colored water outside of the umbrella range? Then it wouldn't make it through either.
@@bestieswithtesties genius
more velocity is equal to more flow which is equal to more volume so its the same amount of water being used
Reminds me of when Spongebob made a sweater with his tears
"I am not getting wet rn" His shirt: WE ARE DROWING
I can see these things scaled up to huge sizes for pavilions and gazebos at big franchise hotels or those massive hotels they have in Singapore or Dubai. Both places I’ve been to and could see something like this be a hit!
0:05 "So I'm not getting wet right now" *Is clearly getting wet* Ah, The Action Lab.
That was just so funny😂
2:34 "And our test subject remains dry inside" I see what you did there 😂
This is like saying can a ring of fire protect me from fire?🤣
3:25 - having a scientist dad must be so cool
I would love to see it done using that speaker/frequency/vibration that makes the water chance shape. Perhaps with a different water frequency structure it would be harder for penetration?
"harder for penetration"....
Sound umbrella??
Yes or a music umbrella. Rock or metal vs rain.
Bro looks like the type of dude to design and engineer a water umbrella
that everyones unemployed friend during work days.
An ion umbrella would be pretty cool! I think water has a slightly negative charge right? So you could create a negative forcefield to repel or a positive one which channels the rain down some stalks and off to the side
ah the force field experiments
Fun fact: your body’s full of water
The slightly negative charge of the water wont be repellant enough no matter how negatively charge the opposite thing is.
@@fallen4life080 Not on its own. Veritasium made a good video on how static electricity changes water flow, but whether positive or negative it doesn't look like you can push with it. Of course scientists love when something LOOKS impossible, because looks are deceiving.
If you surround it with rubber, so the charges. An still get through but lightning can't get it, but it hits the water away
at 5:34 it seemed like you really experienced the impact of the water, even though it was only the bucket water interacting with the hose water. It would be super cool if you could make a video about this, and explaining how moment is transferred in fluids. By the way, your content is always top-notch! Keep up the awesome work!
Do a sand umbrella, that will definitely work
Keep yourself dry and soak everyone else you walk past with this amazing new invention! 😂
Dude *thank you* for taking the time to make these videos. I'm pretty sure somebody else said it already but the way you explain the gimmicks behind what's happening is crystal clear and makes me wonder.
A magnetic field umbrella or if you want to improve your wind and water umbrella, how about making it so that it detects each drop of rain and shots an aimed water droplet or puff of air to the falling water to deflect them. This way it's more power and water efficient. Make it so the umbrella has a water collecting mechanism so it can continuously fire water droplets. Like, what if there's a small parabolic camera and a computer contraption near the tip that act as both water collection and rain drop detector? In fine weather, you can use it as a sun shield by unfolding its solar panels to charge the umbrella. These solar panels are not meant to be used on rain because they'll have to be thin and automatically retractable so the handle of the umbrella stays manageable and light. It has to be retractable to around 10-12 inches to it can be stored easily and has a built in powerful flashlight on the opposite end of the water collecting contraption.
Damn
This would be insanely funny except it would be very difficult to do, as this shit is not only bulky, but water just so happens to be clear
Alright chill out Iron man
A force field umbrella
It's gonna break down so soon..also water droplets arent magnetic so I think u meant something else and not magnetic field? Just saying it's financially unviable and so is the sustainability.
Conventional umbrella laughing at this 😂
"Return Balls"💀
"So I'm not getting wet right now" he says, with around 20 drops of water on his shirt 🤣🤣
The commitment to entirely impractical scenarios in the interests of exploring the raw science is immensely entertaining.
Only action labs, the umbravatar, can master all four brellements.
I think electic umbrella would be a great experiment in the future✨
It’s amazing you’re working through each of the different ways to repel water for your umbrella idea. Could you maybe try a sonic sound umbrella? I took inspiration from those experiments where people capture water droplets in two facing streams of sound waves, and can move the water droplet around by turning up one sound stream and down the other. Maybe you could have a baseball bat shaped umbrella stem that has hexagonal shaped ultrasonic sound emitters, stacked vertically down the stem, repelling water from around you before they hit you? You might get a light dusting of water after the droplets have been broken up, but it would be much better than getting caught in a downpour! 😄
This video gave me a really good umbrella idea, and since you mentioned umbrella suggestions: What about a fabric-umbrella, polyester perhaps?
It can never be done.
If such a thing could be made then you could possibly make a jacket out of it as well but lets keep these ideas to our science fiction writing.
Yeah, fabric has way more mass. So the stick should shoot that out instead.
Some kind of system to pump fabric fibers and blast them out in an umbrella shape. Should work.
You're a madman!
bro just made an irl downpour glider
1:07 everyone gangsta until the umbrella falls
Make it have 3 layers of water umbrellas stacked on top of each other. Like a triple layer shield, if the first layer doesn't stop it, the second or the third layer will! An idea how to build it: To make it have 3 hoses next to each other. The first hose hits the metal square like it currently does. The second passes through a hole in the first layer and hits a second metal square. And the third passes through a hole in both the first and second layer and hits a metal square at the top.
I think this coul'd actually work
think concentric hoses/pipes.. also, each metal endpoint should be able to spin in opposite directions... see my post above..
@@eugenewebber806 That's pretty good. Then the hoses don't block the flow at all.
Your kid seemed like she was having so much fun helping you with this experiment. Your wife also seemed to enjoy it, and boy, she must love you if she's gonna contribute to your silly experiments! very happy for you to have a nice family like that. i envy you. but, it would be kinda cool to see more experiments that involve you and your family!
I know, so adorable ❤❤
child labor for the win
Creating a water umbrella for protection against rainfall is an intriguing concept that could offer a unique feature to a garden. The crucial aspect lies in the management of air distribution to establish a functional water umbrella. To construct a water umbrella, a robust air compressor would be integral for generating the requisite water pressure. By employing a sophisticated air compressor, it becomes possible to regulate and distribute the water effectively, fostering the formation of a water umbrella that can shield against rain. An innovative approach involving the utilization of advanced technological components, coupled with an understanding of fluid dynamics, could lead to the realization of this distinctive garden feature, offering an inventive solution to the age-old challenge of staying dry amidst a downpour.
This would be a great foundain project, across the street in the big city, high power water shots across creating a roof, and then turning into a water foundation.
Next: sword umbrella, because who doesn't like swords...
what next? an ice umbrella? liquid nitrogen powered anti rain device sounds dangerous and funny!
Lava umbrella
Actually, this could work. But dry ice would be better than water-ice. If you shoot liquid co2 through a small nozzle, it will form dry ice. If you have a big CO2 tank with a dip tube(so you get the liquid from the bottom instead of the gas) and an insulated shaft with a few holes at the top, it might just work.
"im not get wet at all" whole right sleeve is soaking wet.
Stay out of my personal space 😂😂
Chad priority : 4:36 🤝
I believe that there is an easier solution, get a plastic like polyester fabric rap it around in a metal hollow cage which has a waterproof sealant so it can slide off easily. To finish it off, add a nice hook at the bottom so the grip is easier
sounds expensive and timely to manufacture...
Nah, that'd never catch on
Seems like it would break easily
@@wolfrunner6462 of course it will, it's not fun otherwise
@@wolfrunner6462 no don’t worry, we can distract people by calling it a wacky name. I’m thinking about “umbrella”
What if you double or triple the layer of water? Maybe the first one will slow the drop of water down to the second and it will not have enough speed to go through the third layer
We got waterbending before GTA 6
Hear me out, what if you made a solid umbrella, like an umbrella made out of some sort of solid material that stops the water. That could maybe work.