Every year I make a trip with my friends to Utah to the desert to go rock
climbing and it's a lot of fun but this year I wanted to bring the desert to you
in the most literal way that I possibly could see there are tons of cacti in the
desert as you can see here mm-hmm and I figured what if I could give the
internet a cactus and so I did that there's a cactus in my house and I've
polled the internet and you guys said let's name it:
Sir Stabbington. Now it is your cactus which means that you have to take care
of it, I am NOT gonna water it and yeah they live in the desert but they still
need water all plants do. so I really think this is the most ridiculous
contraption I've ever built. What it is, is a water bottle with a hose in it and
so water goes through this tube that's acting as a siphon goes down into this
valve, and that valve is controlled by micro controller here which is asking
the internet what the subscriber number on my youtube channel is, and every time
that subscriber number goes up - like we can witness here on my second account - a
single drop of water should fall out of that valve into the bucket that Sir
Stabbington is in. So anyone with a gmail account has a YouTube account and can press
subscribe and let a single drop of water fall into Sir Stabbington's bucket so you
can water Sir Stabbington. Now it only happens when the total number of
subscriber goes up above the maximum so if you click subscribe and unsubscribe
and subscribe and unsubscribe you'll still only have water the thing once but
just so you know. Now hopefully we can keep the cactus alive, I'm honestly not
sure we'll find out it's a big experiment. Lastly while I'm thinking
about it the bell icon if you click that and every
time I release a new video you will get notified. I'm gonna be live-streaming
the cactus as frequently as possible so check for a link in the description to
actually watch yourself water the cactus. I also want to say that it was windy in
the desert, so windy that the actual windscreen on my microphone blew away so
I apologize for the wind sounds. Back to Utah!
The desert here gets 0.6 millimeters of rain a day on average over the year by
this what does that actually look like well last year on my channel overall? On
average for the whole year we got 3 subscribers every day now
that's a lot and I mean I'm pumped about that but then this year things got have
been crazy I've had 30 subscribers every day on
average so before I say anything else like thanks man you guys are amazing I
mean I love your comments I feel like I've learned a lot it seems like you
guys learning things about science I've been loving it and you know this channel
wouldn't be here without you guys so thank you now 30 subscribers a day is 30
drops of water a day but still that's about half as much water as the cactus
would get if it was out here in the desert cuz I mean a drop of water is a
tiny tiny amount of water so what my channel does have 10 times the subscribe
rate it did last year it still has about half the subscriber
rate I think it would need to survive and stay alive at least it has half the
amount of water that it would get if it were here in the desert which is
probably what it needs now I'm not gonna give it any water but I will add soil to
it if somehow the subscriber rate jumps high enough so don't worry about over
watering the cactus I'm gonna take care of it but I'm not gonna water it that's
all you guys now if you're wondering: why would I subscribe to this channel
with this weird guy in the desert talking about his cactus it's your
cactus apparently? Well I make videos about science because it's what I'm most
passionate about because I think it can change the way that you see the world it
certainly has for me every month I'm making crazy metaphor or experiment
videos so so far this year I set up 13,799 dominoes
as a timeline for the universe's
history which I narrated
as they fell - at least I tried my best to... the force that holds it together is
gravity which I can also demonstrate. I built a digital camera for another video
starting with a penny and I evolved it just as the I might have evolved okay
this year I plan to measure the earth with just my bicycle and two sticks
trying to see how big it is and if I can measure that accurately I also plan to
lock myself in an airtight room for three days with just a bunch of plants
and see if they can produce the oxygen that I need to breathe that's fine I've
got many more things in I really want you guys to be involved in this channel
as much as possible and this is the year I mean it's the year I'm trying to give
this a shot for real and it's the year that stabbington
either lives or dies but I also want to know what you guys want out of this
channel I mean if there's some specific thing that you think would be cool for
me to do I am all ears so please leave a comment in the description if you think
that you would like to see this stuff or if you just want to help keep a little
cactus alive please subscribe make sure to check out the link in the description
so that you can actually watch yourself water Sir Stabbington and thanks so much
for everything up till now I mean like this channel has grown immensely I get
comments from you guys all the time it's super encouraging and thank you
for everything and thanks for watching