this is probably how the Spartan Laser works in Halo since its mentioned in the game that its a chemical laser and makes sense that its short burst after a charge and runs out of ammo.
@@phillittle5890the point is that people like when imaginary things, like movies, games and your friends, use mechanics from the real world. It gives them a more grounded feeling.
@@phillittle5890OH MY GOD, NO FUCKING WAY, IS IT REALLY TRUE? AN EXPLOSIVE FUCKING LASER CANNON FROM A SCI-FI VIDEOGAME FRANCHISE ISN'T AVAILABLE IN REAL LIFE????!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!
Yeah but he got the term singlet oxygen wrong though. Singlet oxygen is a diatomic molecule but spin paired and in the lowest excited state. Mono-atomic oxygen is indeed the correct term. The peroxides all give off a single atom of oxygen which recombine to normal O2. Singlet decay also produces red light.
@@mr.giggles4995 Yes, but they are red from singlet oxygen decay is which is different from monoatomic oxygen. Same color, different process. And Mr. Action lab got the term wrong. Peroxide produces monoatomic oxygen, not singlet oxygen.
Few? There are so many educational channels here, from independent creators, like Aaron, to full college courses (MIT, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, etc). I've listened to so many finance books from Jack Bogel to Peter Lynch on here. It's amazing how much you can learn on here.
@@CaelebCianci It's not a problem, I just want people to know how much edu is on here. It's most of the reason why I can justify paying for this site without ads, it helps make money and gain a wider understanding of the world.
@@WanderingExistence Well he's not wrong though. there are MANY good science channels out there, but the ones you're likely to come across are the "shock thumbnail" videos where a guy who read a basic physics text book speaks with the most condescending "Everyone's stupider than me" tone about some unverified trivia they read. There definitely ARE good ones that are honest about thier work, and educational (and even edutainment) without being condescending or overly zealous, but you generally don't find those on accident thanks to the clickbaity nature of the youtube algorithm....
I was the lead engineer for the laser system for a couple years on the Airborne Laser program. Putting the system into a 747 was an extremely complex and challenging endeavor. The hydrogen peroxide used was almost 100% pure unlike what you can buy at the store which is usually just a very diluted solution. The pure stuff was extremely dangerous and could remove all the skin and meat off your body in seconds!
Holy shit you could not pay me enough to get on a plane with a tank full of PURE HyPer. The laser systems were cool, but with that little detail it's easy to see how we might have decided to shelve it. Kind of wish we'd put a little more into solid-state pulse lasers though. I know that the traditional thought is that that pulse lasers make poor weapons systems because of the layer of plasma that appears after each pulse, but I dunno if I'm convinced of that. Seems to me, though admittedly from a hobbyists perspective, like a powerful enough laser pulsed at .5 to 1ms in a tight pattern (like a circle or X a couple of inches across) would be enough to mitigate that phenomenon. What do you think?
A retired Navy SEAL taught me this trick when I was considering going Delta in the Army. It was a method to provide a signal flare for evac purposes. The carry method was to keep the puck in the bottom of an aluminum can and the peroxide was kept in a empty chem light stick so they could be carried together in a 1 qt pouch.
Reminds me of this “It is possible to synthesize excited bromide in an argon matrix. Yes, it's an excimer frozen in its excited state. It's a chemical laser but in solid, not gaseous, form. Put simply, in deference to you, Kent, it's like lasing a stick of dynamite. As soon as we apply a field, we couple to a state that is radiatively coupled to the ground state. I figure we can extract at least ten to the twenty-first photons per cubic centimeter which will give one kilojoule per cubic centimeter at 600 nanometers, or, one megajoule per liter.” IYKYK
@@sevegarza Moive reference. Though I don't remember which one. Ends with using the laser on the bad guys house that's bin filled with popcorn. He hates popcorn. Edit: Google to the rescue. Moive name is "Real Genius".
“Diodes like a normal laser” I wouldn’t call a diode a “normal laser.” The original lasers used some sort of medium like a ruby or CO2 or helium gas mixtures in which the traditional explanation of a laser makes most sense. Those would probably be “normal lasers.” However, “normal” is just a matter of what is more prevalent at the time. Diode lasers are more prevalent today and can be insanely power dense.
Oh boy !! Where is Luke Skywalker, when you need him the most ? When is he going to stop his megalomaniac father , Darth ActionLab from destroying Tatooine using the Deathstar ?
Hold on, I was taught that singlet oxygen is NOT is single atom of oxygen (which is extremely energetic in itself), but excited oxygen molecules which are spin paired, and at the lowest excited state. And way more energetic
While I can see how it would work you think the consistent output of a diode would be alot easier to work with than constantly bringing two chemicals together
I did this experiment. I dripped the Hydrogen Peroxide onto the chlorine and it blew up in my face. My face melted onto some nearby bread and my family mistook it for pizza. I’m going to sue you.
What I am assuming is the dimol emission around 634 nm is a really pretty color. From what I read, there is quite a spike at 762 nm, which would make quite an effective infrared laser. In other words, that’s hot.
What is the "pool chlorine" exactly? I'm aware of least two solid sources of chlorine for swimming pools--sodium hypochlorite, and calcium hypochlorite depending on pH adjustment needed. Or does it not matter?
The same red light is produced when the lxygen in the upper armosphere is excited by the solar wind for longer periods (shorter oxygen excitement releases that greenish light more commonly seen)
The freq is fixed due to it's production from oxygen. The chemical reaction method to achieve the huge power levels could not be used if a different freq would like to be used.
Well it's reaction-specific. Monoatomic Oxygen has more energy than Diatomic Oxygen the difference being about 1.97ev which is the energy of a 630nm red photon.
I seen this tested on a weather balloon back in summer of '08, over Solomons Island, Md. I was abostd my sailboat at anchor and saw the balloon as super bright white dot. I got my 20x hand scope out and then saw a red in the Sky slowly converging towards the white dot. After a few minutes they converged and there was a bright flash and then nothing except for faint balloon debris floating around. Thats when I knew it had been a balloon. I was BBQing a thick NY strip and some sweet corn on the cob, while jamming out listening to ZZ Top and Led Zepplin.
"The laser is fed with gaseous chlorine, molecular iodine, and an aqueous mixture of hydrogen peroxide and potassium hydroxide. The aqueous peroxide solution undergoes chemical reaction with chlorine, producing heat, potassium chloride, and oxygen in excited state, singlet delta oxygen." [Wikipedia]
Children of the A-Team, McGyver generation see stuff like this and hope for the scenario in life where we have to make a giant lazer using the contents of a hairsalon and swimming pool store cupboard
Sorry aint going to happen. They found that weather conditions effect the laser so drastically that in some cases it made it ineffectual against the target. Things such as air moisture/clouds soaked most of the lasers energy. Plus so much energy is required to shoot down a target that it wasn't good for more than a couple shots.
Ever had a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?
Well, it never shot any ICBM from the sky, as the effective distance for the laser is far too short. Range is about 40km max. You would need to get the ICBM in the inital start phase. At that point you are deep inside the enemy territory that launches ICBMs, so you are very much likely shot down...
No. Polarization implies organization of the light-active medium. The process in the video doesn't coordinate the photon emissions, so these are not polarized, nor coherent .
"Do not Attempt" - sorry, just shut down an SS-18 Satan Intercontinental ballistic missile. Im very sorry.
Lol
For some odd reason, the grandma pfp makes this comment 50x better XD
@@raeann445 lol
you've just saved chipsky norton!
this is a legitamate and sanctioned chess move. no worries.
this is probably how the Spartan Laser works in Halo since its mentioned in the game that its a chemical laser and makes sense that its short burst after a charge and runs out of ammo.
you deserve more likes, I didn't remember that Halo fact and this video explains really well how that makes the splazer realistic.
It’s not actually real guys it’s just an imaginary laser coz it’s in a video game
@@phillittle5890no shit..
@@phillittle5890the point is that people like when imaginary things, like movies, games and your friends, use mechanics from the real world.
It gives them a more grounded feeling.
@@phillittle5890OH MY GOD, NO FUCKING WAY, IS IT REALLY TRUE? AN EXPLOSIVE FUCKING LASER CANNON FROM A SCI-FI VIDEOGAME FRANCHISE ISN'T AVAILABLE IN REAL LIFE????!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!
Did.....did he just threaten us? ALL of us?
Glory to the Action Lab Empire.
Are you threatening me? I am Cornholio!!!
No just the aliens of Earth 2
I want to be a clone for the empire
Dude just went to the dark side...
Monatomic oxygen high in the atmosphere is the source of the red colours in the aurora.
Is that why sprites are red too then? (I think sprites are what I'm thinking of)
Yeah but he got the term singlet oxygen wrong though. Singlet oxygen is a diatomic molecule but spin paired and in the lowest excited state. Mono-atomic oxygen is indeed the correct term. The peroxides all give off a single atom of oxygen which recombine to normal O2. Singlet decay also produces red light.
@@mr.giggles4995 Yes, but they are red from singlet oxygen decay is which is different from monoatomic oxygen. Same color, different process. And Mr. Action lab got the term wrong. Peroxide produces monoatomic oxygen, not singlet oxygen.
Action labs is one of the few good channels on yt that actually teaches us stuff, and how to do stuff, keep up the amazing work guys😁
Few? There are so many educational channels here, from independent creators, like Aaron, to full college courses (MIT, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, etc). I've listened to so many finance books from Jack Bogel to Peter Lynch on here. It's amazing how much you can learn on here.
@@WanderingExistencedamn bro I’m sorry I made a mistake
@@CaelebCianci It's not a problem, I just want people to know how much edu is on here. It's most of the reason why I can justify paying for this site without ads, it helps make money and gain a wider understanding of the world.
@@WanderingExistence Well he's not wrong though. there are MANY good science channels out there, but the ones you're likely to come across are the "shock thumbnail" videos where a guy who read a basic physics text book speaks with the most condescending "Everyone's stupider than me" tone about some unverified trivia they read. There definitely ARE good ones that are honest about thier work, and educational (and even edutainment) without being condescending or overly zealous, but you generally don't find those on accident thanks to the clickbaity nature of the youtube algorithm....
@@MarioMastarso your saying that action labs just read out of a text book, that is so wrong
It’s amazing because a lot of time in science we talk about photons being emitted but it’s so cool to be actually able to see it
my dear, you only see photons that are emitted.
@ but not all photons that are emitted
@@NoSTs123Sometimes those photons are UV or IR, TBF.
I was the lead engineer for the laser system for a couple years on the Airborne Laser program. Putting the system into a 747 was an extremely complex and challenging endeavor. The hydrogen peroxide used was almost 100% pure unlike what you can buy at the store which is usually just a very diluted solution. The pure stuff was extremely dangerous and could remove all the skin and meat off your body in seconds!
Bart Simpson: COOOOOL!!!
Holy shit you could not pay me enough to get on a plane with a tank full of PURE HyPer. The laser systems were cool, but with that little detail it's easy to see how we might have decided to shelve it. Kind of wish we'd put a little more into solid-state pulse lasers though. I know that the traditional thought is that that pulse lasers make poor weapons systems because of the layer of plasma that appears after each pulse, but I dunno if I'm convinced of that. Seems to me, though admittedly from a hobbyists perspective, like a powerful enough laser pulsed at .5 to 1ms in a tight pattern (like a circle or X a couple of inches across) would be enough to mitigate that phenomenon. What do you think?
Yiiiiiiikes!
Read about the Me 162 rocket plane, fueled with high test peroxide and potassium permanganate.
@@For_What_It-s_Worth The only plane that melts you for the crime of landing. Brutal stuff
"Do not attempt."
Now I really want to attempt this
Singlet oxygen is highly reactive and can damage your cells and DNA potentially leading to cancer, but by all means go nuts.
Val Kilmer did this in the movies back in 1985, but was using an argon matrix.
Came here to mention that film (Real Genius). Makes one wonder if the real military laser had a similar backstory.
A retired Navy SEAL taught me this trick when I was considering going Delta in the Army. It was a method to provide a signal flare for evac purposes. The carry method was to keep the puck in the bottom of an aluminum can and the peroxide was kept in a empty chem light stick so they could be carried together in a 1 qt pouch.
Surprised nilered nor styropryo have made a video on this
If you don't find it on nilered, you'll find it on Actionlabs and vice versa. XD
Just wait and watch....
Nilered made actual singlet oxygen, chad here made monoatomic oxygen, and misnamed it as singlet.
@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 This is in fact singlet oxygen.
@@canonicaltom then maybe you explain to me what singlet oxygen really is, because wiki is totally wrong apparently
Use sprayer and spray it to light it all at the same time
Reminds me of this “It is possible to synthesize excited bromide in an argon matrix. Yes, it's an excimer frozen in its excited state. It's a chemical laser but in solid, not gaseous, form. Put simply, in deference to you, Kent, it's like lasing a stick of dynamite. As soon as we apply a field, we couple to a state that is radiatively coupled to the ground state. I figure we can extract at least ten to the twenty-first photons per cubic centimeter which will give one kilojoule per cubic centimeter at 600 nanometers, or, one megajoule per liter.” IYKYK
…wut?
That's hotter than the Sun!!
@@sevegarza Moive reference. Though I don't remember which one. Ends with using the laser on the bad guys house that's bin filled with popcorn. He hates popcorn. Edit: Google to the rescue. Moive name is "Real Genius".
@@NJM1564That's funny, I was thinking of the same movie. With Val Kilmer in his younger days.
You’re a Real Genius, aren’t you? Is that popcorn? I hate popcorn.
“Diodes like a normal laser” I wouldn’t call a diode a “normal laser.” The original lasers used some sort of medium like a ruby or CO2 or helium gas mixtures in which the traditional explanation of a laser makes most sense. Those would probably be “normal lasers.” However, “normal” is just a matter of what is more prevalent at the time. Diode lasers are more prevalent today and can be insanely power dense.
Oh boy !! Where is Luke Skywalker, when you need him the most ? When is he going to stop his megalomaniac father , Darth ActionLab from destroying Tatooine using the Deathstar ?
action lab and nyle red out here competing for title of evilest scientest
Styropyro, not even close...
Nilered produced actual singlet oxygen, what you see here is monoatomic oxygen recombining. Singlet is diatomic but in lowest excited state.
@@paulmichaelfreedman8334 huh?! i just mean they both do wild experiments?! whatre you yappin abt
@@Jitts.the.caffeinatedhands down Styro put the mad In mad scientist
@@voyd234 things you don't understand, apparently.
The Airborne Laser was such a cool project, it's too bad it got cancelled.
"It's an exomer. It's like.... lasing a stick of dynamite!"
Name that movie.
Real Genius (1985)
Popcorn
@@kf7721 LOL "Now I know what to get you for your birthday." [throws bag of popcorn over his shoulder]
Hold on, I was taught that singlet oxygen is NOT is single atom of oxygen (which is extremely energetic in itself), but excited oxygen molecules which are spin paired, and at the lowest excited state. And way more energetic
Ngl the end caught me off guard 🤣🤣🤣
While I can see how it would work you think the consistent output of a diode would be alot easier to work with than constantly bringing two chemicals together
How would they store this chemical inside of the weapon and prevent it from becoming consumed?
I did this experiment. I dripped the Hydrogen Peroxide onto the chlorine and it blew up in my face. My face melted onto some nearby bread and my family mistook it for pizza. I’m going to sue you.
Bone app and teat
What I am assuming is the dimol emission around 634 nm is a really pretty color. From what I read, there is quite a spike at 762 nm, which would make quite an effective infrared laser. In other words, that’s hot.
What is the "pool chlorine" exactly? I'm aware of least two solid sources of chlorine for swimming pools--sodium hypochlorite, and calcium hypochlorite depending on pH adjustment needed. Or does it not matter?
I wonder if they could use that lazer to do something like... heat up enough popcorn to fill up a house or something? 😝😝😝
The same red light is produced when the lxygen in the upper armosphere is excited by the solar wind for longer periods (shorter oxygen excitement releases that greenish light more commonly seen)
A Laser needs amplification. Sounds like a not so Lasering Laser. Still cool
Just remember to design a small weakness within its exhaust port.
It’ll be fine….
The reason not to try this at home is because it produces a lot of heat, oxygen, and chlorine gas.
Why “Do not attempt” things always are most “it’s awesome, gotta try” ones
It was a megawatt class laser. There are petawatt class lasers now.
a 630nm+ laser with that kind of power is unimaginable. You’d think they’d be using a higher energy photon
The freq is fixed due to it's production from oxygen. The chemical reaction method to achieve the huge power levels could not be used if a different freq would like to be used.
Well it's reaction-specific. Monoatomic Oxygen has more energy than Diatomic Oxygen the difference being about 1.97ev which is the energy of a 630nm red photon.
this laser is real genius
So that's why pool chemicals got so expensive!!🙄
Chemical lasers were the original normal lasers. Diodes are much more recent.
am i old fashioned for thinking of gas lasers when hearing "normal lasers"?
Didn’t they do this in “Real Genius” with Val Kilmer?
😂
that must have reeked whenever they fired that laser in the plane
I completely forgot that chemical lasers were a thing
I'm sorry, 1 megawatt *CONTINUOUS???* Holy Mother of Powerful
That seems straight out of a movie! Crazy!
So this is what's going on inside Cyclops's eyeballs.
It's funny to think there's some poor airman sitting in a ball turret dripping peroxide at 40000ft.
That red reaction only in dark time can see
Anyone else remember the movie "Real Genius"?
How is the laser maintained? Does it require the contunous renewal of those chemicals?
Yes, the reactants were pumped in from separate storage tanks.
@@thou_dog interesting, thanks
Real Genius (1985) cooking a house full popcorn with a chemical laser ;)
All i know is that if you give one of those to everyone on earth, it can turn the moon into a rocket.
i need a video of Darth Vader ordering 3 billion tons of pool chlorine and 25 billion gallons of peroxide.
Scientist: Hehehehe this is cool
USA: let's use it for intercontinental missiles with lasers
How much chemical did they react to make 1Mw laser!!!! That's insane
"We will never live long enough as a species to destroy a planet"
Darth Vader
Cool proyect.
that light can't be coherent
He wanted to say - "Obey me subjects , obey me world"
It's been 40 years since I see your shorts ..UA-cam is not recommending
does it generate heat?
I’m assuming that’s tcca pool chlorine as opposed to calcium hypochlorite.
That's one of the coolest things I've seen in a while 😊
You can’t convince me this isn’t sorcery
“There is no Death Star”
1 megawatt?! great scott!
I seen this tested on a weather balloon back in summer of '08, over Solomons Island, Md. I was abostd my sailboat at anchor and saw the balloon as super bright white dot. I got my 20x hand scope out and then saw a red in the Sky slowly converging towards the white dot. After a few minutes they converged and there was a bright flash and then nothing except for faint balloon debris floating around. Thats when I knew it had been a balloon. I was BBQing a thick NY strip and some sweet corn on the cob, while jamming out listening to ZZ Top and Led Zepplin.
"The laser is fed with gaseous chlorine, molecular iodine, and an aqueous mixture of hydrogen peroxide and potassium hydroxide. The aqueous peroxide solution undergoes chemical reaction with chlorine, producing heat, potassium chloride, and oxygen in excited state, singlet delta oxygen." [Wikipedia]
so grab pool water and hydrogen peroxide from my cabinet
Children of the A-Team, McGyver generation see stuff like this and hope for the scenario in life where we have to make a giant lazer using the contents of a hairsalon and swimming pool store cupboard
Wonder if it can fill a house with popcorn
Sorry aint going to happen. They found that weather conditions effect the laser so drastically that in some cases it made it ineffectual against the target. Things such as air moisture/clouds soaked most of the lasers energy. Plus so much energy is required to shoot down a target that it wasn't good for more than a couple shots.
Yikes! What are the reaction products? 😳
Any chance of run away ignition?
Ever had a dream where you see yourself standing in sort of sun-god robes on a pyramid with a thousand naked women screaming and throwing little pickles at you?
I need a full video
Use a spray bottle next time
Stuff like this makes me thing humans will last forever.
Is there something similar with a violet light? Although I’m not sure if it will survive long distances.
Well, there goes Alderaan.
H202 you can use to dye your hair
I take it singlet oxygen is more than bit reactive.
so it's a flamethrower
Ok, they're red photons, but are they all coherent?
No. The process is dominated by thermal movement, so the emission of photons is completely uncoordinated .
STOP SAYING WHOA EVERY TIME YOU DO THINGS.
Well, it never shot any ICBM from the sky, as the effective distance for the laser is far too short. Range is about 40km max. You would need to get the ICBM in the inital start phase. At that point you are deep inside the enemy territory that launches ICBMs, so you are very much likely shot down...
Is it polarized?
No. Polarization implies organization of the light-active medium. The process in the video doesn't coordinate the photon emissions, so these are not polarized, nor coherent .
But lasers coordinate. That’s what the S is for.
Chemical laser is dope!
So basically magic potions 😂
Next project, last project😂😂
Oh oh. I have the materials needed just right in my house ...
what the hell with the sound? i have headphones and i hear him behind me, i got startled
The background music is so actio -movie like
This technically a flame test for oxygen?
No. It is just a particular method of producing the oxygen .
He has given in to the dark side....
Yet again hydrogen peroxide is amazing
Why is it dangerous to try at home?
how does that shoot down missiles out of the sky? I’m confused.
“Normal” lasers use diodes to create the light??? 😂
Woah that’s stuffs colored like the not-a-sun
They Claim it can shoot down a ICBM, but in reality it cant.
What was that? DEW in a plane?
But they said no such thing exists after Maui got targeted.
Hmmmm
Can you make a flash bomb out of this? 🤔