{"id":983,"date":"2026-07-19T18:07:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T18:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=983"},"modified":"2026-07-19T18:07:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T18:07:57","slug":"watch-a-mad-scientist-youtuber-make-lightning-in-a-bottle-from-mercury-and-neon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/longhaulmovingpros.com\/?p=983","title":{"rendered":"Watch a Mad Scientist YouTuber Make Lightning in a Bottle From Mercury and Neon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The clich\u00e9 is that the only certainties in life are death and taxes. I submit, however, that that particular aphorism lacks vision. If you\u2019re a habitual YouTube viewer and\/or someone with an interest in science, you\u2019ll already know that there are at least two more things on which you can rely: that anything uploaded by Drake \u201cStyropyro\u201d Anthony will be both a) worth watching and b) at least mildly terrifying.<\/p>\n

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So it proves for our hero\u2019s latest video, which apparently doesn\u2019t meet the standards for his main channel\u2014on which he was last seen wiring a shitton of car batteries together, if you\u2019ve forgotten\u2014and thus surfaced on his second channel instead. Don\u2019t be fooled into thinking that it\u2019s any less quintessentially Styropyro, though: not unless you think that putting together a plasma tube that generates light by shaking some mercury metal sealed within somehow constitutes going soft.<\/p>\n