Aleksa Vulovic's hail cannon shakes the trees but not the clouds

The I did a thing builder pairs a crystal-filled cloudbuster with a giant gas-fired cannon, then hands down a blunt verdict on both.

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I made a bizzare invention that blows up clouds

On a usual day, the whole I did a thing catalogue draws somewhere under 80,000 views. Aleksa Vulovic's newest video, "I made a bizzare invention that blows up clouds", drew about two million in its first 15 hours on its own.

The Australian builder has had a go at the weather before. His most watched regular video, from 2021, asks whether he can skip rope fast enough to stop the rain. This time he takes on two devices that people have genuinely put their faith in.

The first is a cloudbuster in the style of Wilhelm Reich, the Austrian psychoanalyst whose "orgone energy" still circulates in esoteric corners of the internet. Vulovic assembles his from copper pipes, crystals, metal shavings and resin, then watches the sky for several days. Whatever the weather does, he points out, "the machine can technically never fail." When a cloud thins, he has the explanation ready: "That is what clouds do; they disappear sometimes." A smaller "tower buster", thrown at a radio tower's fence, leaves his meter reading exactly as before.

The second half, he says, runs on "a slightly more controversial principle, known as actually moving air." European farmers once fired hail cannons in the hope that shockwaves would stop hail forming, and Vulovic builds a giant one from an old gas cylinder, a cone of rolled sheet steel and an oxy-acetylene ignition. His neighbour Sean helps with the testing. The blasts shake trees in the distance, and smoke-filled vortex rings roll out over a lake towards the fog.

The video includes a paid segment for Revolut.

In the comments, much of the talk is about the cloudbuster's no-lose logic and what the neighbours must make of the bangs. Vulovic's own verdict is plain: "Both these devices do absolutely nothing." The cannon still earns one distinction from him: "by far the loudest and most powerful thing I've ever made."

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The numbers

One new video drew more views in its first hours than the channel's whole catalogue usually gathers in weeks.

subscribers

5,660,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

854,758,359

views per day

1,769,948

typical day: 78,966

the video

views

2,088,385

likes

77,488

comments

4,076

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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As of November 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

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