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[@EmilyTheEngineer]

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[@OneHappyCrazyPerson]

You just invented the yellow jacket grenade ! 😮

[@mikepren]

I just bought a large printer and was like why did I do this? What do I need to print this large? A cyclone for my shop vac obviously! Can I get a link to that file?

[@centurybeats9330]

I am a freshman in college, studying mechanical engineering... THIS IS THE CHANNEL FOR ME

[@centurybeats9330]

Immediate sub btw :)

[@serronserron1320]

I ayfriend

[@stilllife8]

Alan and Emily, two brilliant people who have been cursed to share 1 brain cell.

[@paulcavigliano6388]

Now that's funny! 😂

[@heydontjudge]

THIS IS THE BEST GIFT TO HUMANITY

[@KennethMayhew-ju6bo]

Yes😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 so true

[@apocalyptosoldier5527]

And Alan was already sharing that braincell with William Osman, it's working overtime

[@Anjei6]

facts

[@kentslocum]

Gotta love how they relocated the wasps only a few feet away from the original nest.

[@johndorian4078]

stop your video now, dont watch the last 5 seconds if that part bothered you :)

[@nicholaspenland6394]

The last 5 seconds is the best. Specifically the last 2. Satisfying asf fr

[@tcgly3273]

+3 poison damage. Instant kill for targets with an allergy.

[@madjohnshaft]

I was stumped by a yellow jacket nest in my backyard, but then one night a skunk came and ate all the yellow jackets and they were completely gone. Only a neat hole was left.

[@Sembazuru]

Yay skunk! (Just don't startle it while it is taking care of the wasps for you.)

[@teitgenengineering]

Skunks are awesome

[@lupusk9productions]

wtf skunks eat wasps?

[@teitgenengineering]

@@lupusk9productions skunks eat wasps rodents and so much more

[@GermanSausagesAreTheWurst]

@@lupusk9productions They think the larvae are delicious.

[@integza]

I can’t even describe how much I hate Wasps

[@AJ-Palermo]

More than you hate tomatoes?

[@cybertech931]

tomatoes is disgusting@@AJ-Palermo

[@oscitancy]

Time to make wasps have a showdown with tomatoes.

[@artohassinen3509]

Sooo, rocket powered wasp re-locator then it is @integza?

[@tacobell2009]

Same. Wasps bad. Bees are good though. Except wood bees. Wood bees can go to hell.

[@Insanabiliter_In_Linea]

Well, you've not only invented a new way to very quickly move wasps from one place to another but also potentially a new war crime. Impressive.

[@bluefirefoxowo]

I need one

[@dalynagarcia3861]

I thought the video would be about the second one.

[@rexskyfighter]

It is time to expand the list. There has to be a 100th anniversary Edition

[@WRXBase]

it's never a war crime the first time.

[@colestephens9256]

its not a war crime if you had fun

[@DJl3iohazord]

I use to work in beekeeping and rescuing and yes we use that cyclone thing to capture a hive. We don’t however weaponize them. The only time we use the succ is when the hive is located in a wall and we can tare out the wall to do a normal cut out and a normal trap out won’t work because it takes about a few weeks. Honestly I would just keep them in the jar and use it like a grenade.

[@danieljames1868]

Cook the grenade by shaking before throwing.

[@matthewnardin7304]

I love how you say that you don't weaponize wasps but you clearly have some ideas about how to weaponize wasps.

[@Dagonius.]

Wasp-Grenades... wow!

[@SpeedyGwen]

the wasp grenade and wasp gun reminds me of terraria way too much x3

[@mattfleming2287]

How is that not a weapon in a video game? Just carry 2or 3 of those and you can distract dozens of people at a time.

[@zacharythurgood2704]

Anyone attempting to save yellow jackets has never been swarmed for simply existing 😂

[@danieljames1868]

Yellow jackets, as with all life, play an important role in nature, and I can respect that. As long as they stay over there. If they come over here, I will treat them with all the care and peace they treat me with.

[@micahh9351]

@@danieljames1868 theyre actually invasive in some places. so if they come near me they getting the flamethrower.

[@BarfusWOW]

@@danieljames1868 they aren't pollinators, soooo therefore.. fire... ALLL.. THE.... FIRE

[@cownose8949]

​@BarfusWOW if it drinks from a flower it pollinates. wasps pollinate. don't have to like em but they do

[@PsylomeAlpha]

@@BarfusWOW They actually *are* pollinators, just not quite as good at it as bees are

[@ameliabuns4058]

"I'm relocating them, to the after-life" lol I love your dad.

[@trashtrash2169]

Actually they're cousins.

[@DeuxisWasTaken]

@@trashtrash2169 oh no

[@armorhide406]

... That's Dan not dad

[@ameliabuns4058]

oh sorry! @@armorhide406

[@TheZerok666]

I literally finished the phrase for him while watching and I wholeheartedly support this sentiment

[@jakemgrim]

I also used the Venturi effect this week! But instead of shooting bees, I shot flames out of a pumpkin 🎃 🔥

[@kiwihuman]

As someone who A: likes fire and B: has a pumpkin, I would like more information on this subject.

[@DIfromTCS]

please elobrate

[@jakemgrim]

@@DIfromTCS I started making flamethrowers to attach my hands, then I realize I should make a third flamethrower and put a Punkin. It’s pretty simple, just a 3D printed Venturi and a grill igniter! I posted two shorts of it and will be posting a more elaborate short here soon!

[@DIfromTCS]

you attached flamethrowers to your hands..... GENIUS!@@jakemgrim

[@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies]

Hey, me too! But instead of doing something cool, I was just installing someones shower :(

[@TheTsunamijuan]

I am still dying at "This is my friend Dan, and he has a problem... My mom had me tested!"

[@Mellowbaton]

The wasp gun is a great tool for defeating golem, just make sure you pair it with something that can inflict ichor

[@apurwaasuramana5202]

true wonder if the hive pack helps to buff the wasps aswell

[@NickC_222]

I was swarmed by wasps when I was like 8, and at 35 I still have a phobia of bees so strong that my body enters defcon 1 when a housefly buzzes by my ear, _even if I know it's just a fly_ . I was kinda hoping youd launch them into a fire or something tbh. I appreciate honeybees, they're alright, but wasps can die in a fire.

[@ThatRPGuywithtoomanyOCs]

Bees, for the most part, are pretty dang chill unless they think you are a threat to the hive. One bee will pretty much only sting when it's about to die anyways, since they only get one sting and then die. Heck, bee swarms are insanely docile as long as you don't start crushing them, because swarms do not have a hive yet since swarms form to find a new home for a hive. But you touch their hive? Bees gonna fuck you up, the little kamikaze fuzzbutts. Wasps on the other hand? Temperamental, territorial, and extremely ready to fuck your day up because they can sting endlessly until you get the fuck away from their area.

[@lelandholmquist2467]

Honestly I would have just dropped the jar still closed into either fire or boiling water.

[@SbassLaser]

that's called classical conditioning

[@ElizabethGreene]

"Jar full of angry hornets" seems like a very effective way to introduce entropy in many situations.

[@rootabeta9015]

"What's this? A fellow youtubers video completely devoid of bees? My mason jar full of BEES ought to put a stop to that!"

[@kreynolds1123]

Venturi effect to suck bees out of a jar doesn't work so well if one doesn't also let air into the jar. Otherwise the jar just goes to steady state low pressure with no flow. Bringing air into the bottom of a jar would introduce airflow from the bottom to the top. If the air flows in at an angle to the side, then it's likly to effect the bees the most as the bees will tend to want to stay closest to the side walls.

[@EmilyTheEngineer]

the lid actually had a vent hole in it, but we switched up completely to the new version because we knew it’d work best with the hole at the bottom of the jar, and drilling into glass is kinda hard

[@kreynolds1123]

@@EmilyTheEngineer just a thought. many peanut butter jars are made of plastic.

[@klasodeth]

@@EmilyTheEngineer Drilling glass isn't necessarily all that bad. I had good results drilling through a glass jar with a diamond hole-cutting bit. I put the jar inside a bucket of water while drilling to keep the glass dust under control and successfully drilled the hole in under 30 seconds.

[@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies]

@@klasodeth Add the words 'without a specific bit designed for the job' which many people in their early twenties do not have.

[@steampunkskunk3638]

​@@BruceNJeffAreMyFlies if only there was a store that specialized in tools and hardware where people could go and buy drill bits and other tools.... Oh wait.

[@bosstowndynamics5488]

This might come off as nitpicking, but yellow jackets and other wasps are very much not bees - a key distinction being that a bee can only sting you once while a wasp can just keep stinging over and over

[@beemaster6950]

Yeah no dude dw i literally thought the same when she called them bees XD

[@karlharvymarx2650]

So glad you said this since I think the strain of not saying anything was going to kill me in a day or two.

[@Kalmaro4152]

Plus wasps are closer to ants aren't they?

[@LaNoturnaisafeg]

Yeahhhh only her channel name is engineer, she's clearly not that bright.....

[@kelvinselegean7629]

Um actually🤓🤓

[@zenmark42]

Glad to see you won the battle with Allen over who gets to make the bee gun.

[@Zilchfollower0]

After 90 seconds, I'm already sold on this foolproof plan and can see no way that it could go wrong.

[@Zilchfollower0]

Turns out, there were a couple of flaws in the plan.

[@bornach]

Good thing Emily and Allen both made bee/wasp guns just in case one of them, like, might have gotten destroyed on a nut farm or something

[@jonathanluis4966]

Can relate to Dan on not wanting to continue helping the bees. Got attacked by some while dispersing them for a pest control company and was not informed we had a bee suit at the office that we had to check out for every time we needed it. Now that I think about it is dumb that was the way they did it and not have one for every technician in their van.

[@virtualvirtual2362]

those are wasps, bees are fuzzy and chill, bright yellow wasps, an almost brown yellow color are bees

[@johndorian4078]

duct tape good enough

[@ChrisKoch]

3rd option: instead of senselessly killing or relocating them, utilize the circle of life™ Deposit some peanut butter near the nest. This attracts their natural predators (skunk/opossum) who will dig out the entire nest over the course of a few days.

[@Venusvacumms_07]

boooooooo

[@__OZYMANDIAS__]

Hella smart but the other is more fun

[@evilsharkey8954]

That could also attract dogs and get them horribly attacked… or fed. I knew a German shepherd who would snap them out of the air and somehow never get stung.

[@silvussol8966]

@@evilsharkey8954- maybe the dog got stung and just didn’t care?

[@evilsharkey8954]

@@silvussol8966 His throat would have swollen eating that many yellow jackets and paper wasps

[@BuildDanielBuild]

Yellow Jackets hit mach 2

[@pugsareepic2381]

We can now launch yellow jackets at people, welcome to cyberpunk. 2077

[@diamondflaw]

The Internet has taught me that the best response to something like yellowjackets is molten aluminum.

[@evilsharkey8954]

At night. If you approach during the day, you won’t get them all, and you’ll get swarmed.

[@NithinJune]

rip allen pam, he said he’s literally making this exact video rn edit: ohhh he’s literally in this video lol

[@somebody-lm5jc]

THE END💀

[@DylanBradRamsey]

dang this is some high quality youtube engineer-y meme-y content that sends the dopamine in all the right places. I don’t even have anything worth saying, but thought I’d leave this comment for what ever algorithm boosting abilities it might attribute too

[@dantecavallin8229]

Within the first minute you made yourself a new subscriber. This is quality content.

[@rat-in-a-suit]

Emily- saving the bees and our boredom, one crazy idea at a time

[@joelhemphill8005]

Er, wasps, not bees. Bees are actually one of the top things that wasps eat. So that's like saying "Saving the fish" when saving an orca.

[@FunicularMusic]

Alan Pan in shambles

[@footgod420]

I don't know how I didn't know about this channel before. This type of stuff is right up my alley

[@HesDeadJim]

Another option would be to refrigerate the jars once wasps are trapped. Its safe to then relocate them in a chilled carry box. Simply open the jar in the sun, and eventually they will heat up and reanimate some time later. This is assuming it works the same way as for flys.

[@Shovel________________]

i love how even after making revisions on their designs, both alan and emily STILL land on the same mechanisms

[@flyerminer]

Dan is an absolute madman

[@HuzaifaM123]

I cant BEE LIVE you did this!

[@OneSpadeGaming]

Another banger from EmilytheEngineer and BuildDanielBuild from the Iron Legion 💯

[@davidedwards9157]

For the next iteration, Imma suggest checking out 'blast gate' (I'll leave it to you to figure out why one at the top of your collection jar might be useful).

[@josuelservin]

I was thinking the same, but the video proved it was not needed for a short "relocation" perhaps it would be useful if you need to relocate them further away or to reload the contraption.

[@TheVZizzle]

Its not the launcher that did it, but getting wasps into a jar has me evil cackling. Could you imagine a whole beer growler full of wasps? The possibilities are endless.

[@Insmnyk]

This is the content I crave after a day of adulthood and job.

[@Nadyabusiness]

That device may actually have a market for entomologists. I can't say for sure but researchers often need a safe way to collect lots of insects when working with them. Also, probably late to tell you this but if you put insects in the freezer for about a minute, maybe two, they become lethargic and easy to work with until they warm up again.

[@always_be_curious]

These videos are so inspiring to me, I can’t wait to use people’s irreplaceable time with my own

[@jay11512]

This is friggin sweet! Do you have the STL files for the cyclone separator?

[@warw]

Google 'dust deputy' they're great and cheap

[@tonkatoy200]

It's fairly easy to design one.

[@josuelservin]

​@@tonkatoy200but you can deny it's even easier to just download and hit print! And having one with a jar attachment seems quite useful.

[@erinkarp]

Loved the seamless transition omg

[@thedarklapisxeno6088]

I want you to know, I have just stumbled upon your channel. 3rd video I've watched is this one. I haven't laughed so hard at such chaos in so long. I literally just built my first Ender 3 like 3 hours ago, and your chaos is gold. I'm happy to be apart of this community now

[@Scoots1994]

"My Mom had me tested" doesn't mean the tests came back normal.

[@johnnyappleseed.4420]

More dan! Dan is legit.

[@edwardpaulsen1074]

Yellow jackets are a type of hornet, also known as the angry arsehole or barmy bastard... I fully concur and endorse Dan's release method against a hard and preferably an actively flaming source. Many, many years ago, I once designed a butane powered "Puff gun" wherein a short burst of butane from a bell shaped nozzle would create a millisecond duration fireball a couple feet in diameter that effectively removed the wings from the aerial menace whereupon simpler methods were able to gather them up more effectively. A fairly large nearby population of garden spiders was treated to a multi day feast...

[@thedonutsorelse]

How am I only now discovering this channel? This is great!

[@Benjamin_Reese]

Your ad was fantastic! I love it!!

[@pocholomanalac9561]

These are the projects i LOVE. SUBBED!

[@Neutercane]

Regarding your PPE, did the suits not adequately protect you from the yellow jackets? You both seemed very afraid of them despite having the suits on.

[@johndorian4078]

bee suits dont keep you from being stung just lessens your chances of being stung, and also keeps them from going up into your clothes.

[@ThatRPGuywithtoomanyOCs]

It really depends on the suit and how well sealed it is for a lot of things. The amount of time exposed also plays a role, as given enough time they will find a crevice you left open or a thin spot to sting through. The canvas will stop a sting from hitting you 999/1000 times, but given enough time you'll roll a bad luck moment. But that's for bees, not wasps. The suit will still help against wasps, but depending on stinger length and sharpness they can sometimes punch through it.

[@SpeedyGwen]

the idea of a wasp gun reminds me of terraria way too much x3

[@IronwingTechHaven]

I made a wasp vacuum back in 2009. It worked great for sucking them up and shooting them back out. Fun to see you had a similar idea.

[@KolMan2000]

I have a distinct memory of when I was in Boy Scouts and we were hiking on the Appalachian Trail and had a section of trail with a stump that had a massive yellow jacket nest under it. Since it was on a mountain trail, there was no real safe way to go around it and the yellow jackets were very active. We basically just had to go in pairs as slowly as possible to not upset them then continue a good hundred feet or more to be out of the area. The adults went at the end since that’s when the yellow jackets would likely be the most angry and the only person who got stung was my dad who went at the very end and was practically running up the trail and getting stung until he got almost to where everybody else was. I’d say they hit him a good 5-10 times in a few seconds

[@Th0tsandprayers]

damn, she really made the wasp gun from the martian chronicles, that’s neat

[@williamdowling7718]

First intro to the channel by KZbin recommendations. I'm angry, excited, frustrated, and oh so pleased. Angry and frustrated because this is exactly my kind of content and idk why KZbin hasn't recommended it sooner. Excited and pleased because this is exactly my type of content. Can't wait to watch more.

[@KiiXii]

This brings a smile to my face

[@anderssorenson9998]

Hal from Malcolm in middle shooting bees with the precision of a laser. That show was so good.

[@BrainSlugs83]

Didn't you know? November is Bee Yeeting season. Everyone builds bee guns this time of year, it's a totally tradional and normal thing to be doing.

[@shanegibbens]

Dan is the best!

[@lanededominicis6068]

We are in the bee meta now

[@user-po7iv4ni3o]

I never minded wasps one bit until a few years ago... Got stung only twice, two weeks in a row, and I swelled up like a balloon. Damn wasps.

[@josephstone4842]

This is the kind of content we need

[@christopherbedford9897]

"Whoa whoa whoa" will probably be the words on Emily's tombstone

[@DanTheTurtleMan_]

Animal expert here! Those little shits had it coming

[@RJ-fw8fh]

I am happy someone has found out a way to weaponise bees

[@Petch85]

1:05 Ahhh, You could have use a little more time explaining how a cyclone filter works, it is sooooo coooollllll. For particles of a given size and mass you need a given "air speed" for the particle to be suspended in the air, but since the air coming in with a high speed along the side og the cyclone, and is leaving with a 90 degree angle the "air speed" must base 0 (or close to 0) at some point in the cyclone, and as the air speed drops the particles drops out of the air stream, and that point in the stream you put in a container to collect all the particles and now you have a filter that do not get clogged. Honestly this is genies, and you can find cool CFD simulations and videos of this... Please do.😃

[@dicaspero]

yes

[@gasparsigma]

Relocating them into the afterlife is the proper way to relocate these monsters

[@SeanAlexanderThirtyEight]

“AH PERRY THE PLATYPUS, THIS IS MY WASP YELLOW JACKET OR WHATEVER IS ANNOYING YOU-INATOR!”

[@mickmerriman3570]

I grew up in a kids home, and everyone was always coming in my room. So, I got a jar with a lid, and I'd go catch a bee or a wasp in a bush, and I'd take it inside, turn it over on the carpet, and once I could trap a leg I would tie a thread loop around it, and then let a couple of feet out, then cinch the end in the notch on the spool, and put it in the middle of my doorway. If people walked in without knocking, my circling flying patrol had a good chance of latching on and giving me a good laugh...

[@Boomkop3]

YEEET

[@pranaypatel4775]

I do vortex separator work for my masters project and I think you just changed how I’m gonna present at the end of the year. “The particles go wee woo wee woo” sent me😂😂

[@610demonkey]

5:45 deserves an Emmy

[@MizanChen]

The ad segue is the best. never thought I would not skip an ad. better than Linus'🤣🤣

[@Reavenk]

Got a wasp gun and didn't even need to kill Plantera multiple times. The power of engineering.

[@BricksPrints-pn8od]

"me and Dan came up with a brilliant plan" rhymes

[@kwhp1507]

Those bees that survive are gonna be so pissed!

[@abigaillowry3354]

Once did an Advanced Labs class where we had to get a few grams of some material to combust and calculate the caloric value of. We wanted to do wasps, but they're so goddang light we would've needed like 20-30, which would not have compressed into the pellet size we needed to fit it into the calorimeter cup

[@Sub_Giga_Chad]

I like the compilation of chaos

[@-AT-WALKER]

No bug should have two super powers so by all means, please, yeet away.

[@Aemirys]

Just found your channel and I love it!

[@Red-EyedWanderer]

I'm glad this got recommended

[@-HOSS-]

😂😂 the ending is where I would have started

[@jaredknapp8886]

A forge is just a 3d printer for metal filament. You can 3d print an underground wasp nest for greater effect.

[@jaredknapp8886]

With molten metal.

[@douglashopkins8070]

I had a colony of those in my front garden a bunchnof years ago. I started my investigation by removing the shrub in the middle of the garden. The nest seemed to be centered on the root mass. Since the bees were aggressive I did not want to dig out the shrub manually. I managed to get a rope around the shrub, which I attached to my car. Shrub gone. Bees really really mad. That evening I discovered with some judicious exploration with a shovel that the nest was more than 1 cubic metre. I called an exterminator.

[@AqueleSimao]

Two minutes in and I gotta say I'm already impressed by the spongebob references. Insta-subscription.

[@bloodlove93]

relocating to the afterlife is such a me answer i love it haha

[@Weglat]

I started with Douge Dimmadomes hat today. You are now my favorite youtuber.

[@uridavidson5]

That surprisingly worked

[@serenity1378]

Fun science fact! Vacuums like that are how humane disposal experts retrieve nests of flying insects. Then if they can't be relocated they can be fed to things like chickens so at least some good comes of it. The yeeting aspect, that's new to me.

[@realbigsquid]

The ending was the best

[@coles19960]

The best video yet!😂

[@ProjectDaily]

Relocating them to the afterlife 😂

[@Redlaw]

Hi. Love this. Do you, by any chance, have a link to the stls for viewers?

[@TheBlueB0mber]

Glad I was here for the beginning of your supervillain arc

[@BrilliantDesignOnline]

Pump up spray bottle: Gasoline; note from landlord: 'Move OUT'.

[@BrilliantDesignOnline]

Should have used an eductor to increase the volume and diameter of the airflow into the vacuum. I am with Dan, relocate them to the afterlife...

[@olatorkjelflakne9192]

I love your videos please post more

[@Codyhumburg]

Best video on KZbin

[@AroAce_Psychopath]

The "my mom had me tested" chases moi like the yellow jacket

[@foyrees]

I'm not watching this, but I am making a note: this is quite possibly the most terrifying human that has ever existed.