My grandparents had one of the original ones, with the holes in the base! It sat on the tv, and my grandmother turned it on every night at 5:00pm, for YEARS!
I always studied next to my lava lamp. It's excellent for a visual break from reading. Take a moment, gaze out of focus at the mesmerizing lamp, and resume reading. It was the perfect way to study 👍
There is another practical use for "Lava Lamps": Recording Studios used to use them. The idea is, when the engineers arrived at the studio, they'd turn on the main board, amps and mics (full of vacuum tubes), and then turn on the Lava Lamp. When the lava lamp was flowing, the tubes in the equipment were then nice and warmed up.... then they had to find the artist to begin recording, which I'm sure, was even more time consuming than the waiting.
I've had a collection of lamps for about 20yrs, including an original 1960s Lava branded psychedelic lamp, a tall purple brushed metal starlight holes glitter lamp, and a Lava Lamp bong... ✌️😎🔥
I remember lava lamps used as wall sconces in bowling alley restaurants. Back in those days, they had sit down restaurants and bars in them. And they were accompanied with those spin cigarette ash trays.
Well I'll be damned! The more you know. I've been in the IT and network security field for 25+ years and did not know about the Cloudflare implementation of lava lamps, or any of the other methods, in their encryption. Pretty ingenious, if you ask me. Even a human element takes away from the randomness of almost everything and computers to generate this kind of randomness are quite a bit more expensive than 100 lava lamps.
Hah... I use one as a decoration on my night stand. In combination with lazer projection on the wall (blue-green slowly rotating nebula), it gives off enough ambient light to still see in the dark room, but not enough to glare when i'm watching a movie in the evening. Also it's relaxing. Lava Lamps are awesome 😂
I love the H family!!!! Now I want to make homemade tomato soup. ❤️. I just had grilled cheese today. It's wonderful because you can change up the cheeses. I had cheddar and havarti today and it was delicious. I like a little bit of mustard on mine too. Love your channel. God bless. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
Up to 2020 at our radio station, we ha a show from 12:00am-3:00am called "Lonesome Larry's Lava Lamp Lounge" Mostly classic rock with some jazz fusion mixed in. Larry used to have about four or five lava lamps set up in the studio. It was his only lighting.
My aunt had one of the original Lava Lamps and gave it to me when I went off to university. My roommate decided that the "water" inside was dirty and that he should do me a favor by changing it out for fresh tapwater.🙄
I'm just picturing the first 60's hippies after taking 'recreation stuff' and looking a a lava lamp for the first time: _was it moving before that hit, man_ 🤣😂 Thanks for another great vid.
My friend had a red one. I would stare at it for 30s-1min and it would temporarily bleach out the red photosensors of my eyes so every person I looked at had a dull blueish tint to them. Everyone just looked like dead but very animated corpses.
How cool is this, something I actually knew! I was aware of how Cloudflare used lava lamps, didn't know how the other offices generated randomness though. Such good ideas.
You just awakened a memory: I used to have one of these in my bedroom, but I think I got rid of it when we moved to our current house... which, ftr, was about 5 years ago. Or maybe I got rid of it earlier, I can't remember.
I had a lava lamp a few years ago I chucked it. The glass got to levels of heat the sun could only dream off. I just keep thinking this thing is going to burn my house down.
Here I was searching the comments for "wendover" or "HAI" but you got it. Imagine a collab between Blaze Boy and Wendover, and Tom Scott as a cameo. And made it 12+, IE not inviting Mark Rober.
They exist. Kinda. 5ft tall. But wide like an aquarium won't work the same. I'm not saying you couldn't do it, engineering the liquids, heat source and shape but for ease of manufacturing and price people are willing to pay You need a more narrow linear situation where a temperature gradient is more confined and exaggerated by the small diameter relative to length also why the base is typically wider and top narrower to keep the motion more exciting, speeding up to top when hot. And slowing as it falls. I've always fantasized of a Taurus shaped lava lamp. Or mobius strip. Like I said it here. Now someone will make it and make money on it lol. And I'll be like I had that idea. Damn.
I still say when I can’t sleep at night, the lava lamp is really nice to have. It is so calming. Since mine doesn’t work anymore, I need to sit down & see what’s up. In college when stress was up the lamp was on. Thanks Simon, a trip on nostalgia is always cool!
While no algorithm can produce random numbers, true random number generators do appears on many computer chips. Set a pair of inverters metastable with a 50-50 chance of resolving to 0 or 1. Then let the electrical noise in the system push it one way or the other.
To get that chip to be truly random is a non-trivial exercise. IIRC, an attacker could induce fluctuations in the power supply that can cause weak implementations to emit somewhat predictable results. Those lava lamps are much better at giving truly random results.
@@realulli I happen to be very familiar with such a circuit, for work-related reasons. They are confident enough of it's security that they released a white paper with many details. If the result is too low entropy, it's thrown out and the capacitors charged to nudge it to a more statistically likely level of entropy. It would be practically impossible to account for all the variables, especially in low nanometer technologies. And from there the raw entropy is fed into a pseudo random number generator with hardware hashing. There's millions of these out there and I doubt anyone has seriously tried to exploit it.
@@RichardSmith-ot3zk then you know better than me it's a non-trivial exercise. But it seems the guys you work with did their homework and my info is outdated. A wall of lava lamps is cooler, though! 😋
Cloudflare using the same offices as Oracle had, who were the original ones to use them for that. however you would have had to pay Oracle to use them, so they only became popular once the patent had expired.
My grandparents had one of the original ones, with the holes in the base! It sat on the tv, and my grandmother turned it on every night at 5:00pm, for YEARS!
Well I had one and my grandmother knocked it off the table and busted it, so you win this round.
@@rptrm82 I’m sorry that happened! I wasn’t trying to win anything, only sharing a memory. ☺️
Ahhhh! The good old days!
Let's gooooo granny, still blazing
😎My folks had one, and sometimes I watched it if I wasn’t into the show they were watching
I always studied next to my lava lamp. It's excellent for a visual break from reading. Take a moment, gaze out of focus at the mesmerizing lamp, and resume reading. It was the perfect way to study 👍
In the world of studio audio mixing it is an iron rule that a Lava Lamp must be present. No good record was ever mixed without Lava Lamp input.
Today I found out, that my lava lamp is just a little bit cooler than I thought it was. Thanks, Simon & Team.
There is another practical use for "Lava Lamps": Recording Studios used to use them. The idea is, when the engineers arrived at the studio, they'd turn on the main board, amps and mics (full of vacuum tubes), and then turn on the Lava Lamp. When the lava lamp was flowing, the tubes in the equipment were then nice and warmed up.... then they had to find the artist to begin recording, which I'm sure, was even more time consuming than the waiting.
I've had a collection of lamps for about 20yrs, including an original 1960s Lava branded psychedelic lamp, a tall purple brushed metal starlight holes glitter lamp, and a Lava Lamp bong... ✌️😎🔥
Cool 🤙
How in the hell does a lava lamp bong work?? It sounds really cool but they get so damn hot that you can't touch them.
If you ever decide to sell any/all of them, i would be VERY interested in acquiring them !
@curtislindsey1736 It's really just a little bong that looks like a lava lamp lol
Cool
I remember lava lamps used as wall sconces in bowling alley restaurants. Back in those days, they had sit down restaurants and bars in them. And they were accompanied with those spin cigarette ash trays.
Personally, I don't have a problem with your fast pace speech.
I really enjoyed this, thank you 😊❤️
English not being my native language it took me a little time to get used to it, but know it’s ok.
I hate slow speech. It just stretches the video length with the same amount of content...
I don't speed him up more than 1.25 usually.
Well I'll be damned! The more you know. I've been in the IT and network security field for 25+ years and did not know about the Cloudflare implementation of lava lamps, or any of the other methods, in their encryption. Pretty ingenious, if you ask me. Even a human element takes away from the randomness of almost everything and computers to generate this kind of randomness are quite a bit more expensive than 100 lava lamps.
You must not watch Tom Scott videos then! I highly recommend his stuff, though he's on a bit of a hiatus after 10 years of weekly videos.
Hah... I use one as a decoration on my night stand. In combination with lazer projection on the wall (blue-green slowly rotating nebula), it gives off enough ambient light to still see in the dark room, but not enough to glare when i'm watching a movie in the evening. Also it's relaxing. Lava Lamps are awesome 😂
Hey, a Simon Whistler video where people aren’t heinously murdered, killed/maimed in a war or had their lives ruined by corporate greed. Cool, man!
So will likely perform poorly! 😋 -Daven
🤣🤣🤣
But a lava lamp did kill an idiot who tried to make it work on his stove.
@@fritz1990
🤦♀️
@@fritz1990not to mention those who drank them in the 60’s
When you said they were being recorded by Cloudflare I immediately knew why and was just stunned by how brilliant that is.
6:25 he described the lamp's trending similarly to how it operates. pretty cool
Love the content Simon, big ups to the excellent writers that keep you oiled.
I love how went from 1st to 3rd wife in 2 minutes with no mention of the second
Shhhhh we don't speak of she-who-will-not-be-named 😂
She got Henry VIII'd
@@GeericeMust have been quite the snack, if Henry 8 her.
What happens in the nudist colony, stays in the nudist colony.
I loovveee lava lamps! I'm so happy that they came back in trend in the late 90s. I miss all the fun, bright colors that were in trend then too.
Jimi picture at beginning of video is awesome
When he was explaining the lava lamp wall, was anyone else thinking of the Heart of Gold improbability drive?
I love the H family!!!! Now I want to make homemade tomato soup. ❤️. I just had grilled cheese today. It's wonderful because you can change up the cheeses. I had cheddar and havarti today and it was delicious. I like a little bit of mustard on mine too. Love your channel. God bless. 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
I love lamp.
Do you really love the lamp or are you just looking at things around the room and saying that you love them?
@@MelchVagquestI love poppers
Don't moths generally say that?
@@lp-xl9ld MOTHTOAFLAAAAAME
Hearing Simon say “Peace out man” was the highlight of my day 😂😂
Simon saying "groovy" in the most posh voice on Earth is legendary.
Up to 2020 at our radio station, we ha a show from 12:00am-3:00am called "Lonesome Larry's Lava Lamp Lounge" Mostly classic rock with some jazz fusion mixed in. Larry used to have about four or five lava lamps set up in the studio. It was his only lighting.
What's your password? . . . Wall of lava lamps. . . Aaaaarrrrgggg I can't hack it!
That was not what I was expecting.
But this was even more awesome.
My aunt had one of the original Lava Lamps and gave it to me when I went off to university. My roommate decided that the "water" inside was dirty and that he should do me a favor by changing it out for fresh tapwater.🙄
I would no longer have a roommate... but the room might smell a bit funny after a while... 😶
How did you manage to NOT smother him in his sleep??
@@terriwetz6077 How do you know they didn't?
thanks! Was very interesting
I'm just picturing the first 60's hippies after taking 'recreation stuff' and looking a a lava lamp for the first time: _was it moving before that hit, man_ 🤣😂
Thanks for another great vid.
My friend had a red one. I would stare at it for 30s-1min and it would temporarily bleach out the red photosensors of my eyes so every person I looked at had a dull blueish tint to them. Everyone just looked like dead but very animated corpses.
I first found out about this via Tom Scott. It's such a clever and effective idea, yet so simple. That's what makes it genius.
The best thing about lava lamps is you can zone out while watching them. Its a bit like meditating. It eases stress.
I have one of those lamps, it was a present from my wife and I absolutely love it
Great add , the Patreon members . 🎉❤
How cool is this, something I actually knew! I was aware of how Cloudflare used lava lamps, didn't know how the other offices generated randomness though. Such good ideas.
Great video but at 1:23 I would like to point out that David Attenborough is a naturalist, a naturist is someone comfortable without any clothes on.
Groovy man!
Wow, that was really very random and interestingly cool.
Groovy!
A fitting video today, i just bought one a few days ago.
Grooooooovy... Maaaaaaan!
You just awakened a memory: I used to have one of these in my bedroom, but I think I got rid of it when we moved to our current house... which, ftr, was about 5 years ago. Or maybe I got rid of it earlier, I can't remember.
Just great! Now I gotta try figure out where, in my room, Whistler has hidden his camera!🤔✌️🤘
Thanks simon, seriously for being one of the few fact chanels that isnt ai voiced
That was cool!
I had a lava lamp a few years ago I chucked it. The glass got to levels of heat the sun could only dream off. I just keep thinking this thing is going to burn my house down.
That's very cool!
Groovy
Ah, yes. Thank you for the video, Tom Scott!!
Here I was searching the comments for "wendover" or "HAI" but you got it. Imagine a collab between Blaze Boy and Wendover, and Tom Scott as a cameo. And made it 12+, IE not inviting Mark Rober.
@@ACME_Kinetics What impresses me the most is he didn't delete my original comment!!!
@@fredashay He never reads them.
@@THE-X-Force Someone does...
@@fredashay Not Simon. Sometimes the writers or editors.
Tired of this association between lava lamps and drugs. Ive used drugs all my life and never owned a lava lap.
😂 that's because you're too young😂
@@7-ten I'm old enough to like you just because you said I was still young =D
@@jfh667 ;D I was just poking fun. ✌ ❤
Not everyone who does drugs has lava lamps… but everyone who has lava lamps, does drugs ✅ 😂
That is fascinating!
Omg, that is brilliant to use lave lamps
Have two yellow retro mathmos lava lamps, still work very well, nice to have the lights off and watch the lamps. Groovy.
So that's why those things made a sudden comeback in the late 90s, I even got myself a couple of them.
Gorgeous
brb gotta go see this eves on skis!
Someone should invent something bigger like a Lava Aquarium Lamp.
They exist. Kinda. 5ft tall. But wide like an aquarium won't work the same. I'm not saying you couldn't do it, engineering the liquids, heat source and shape but for ease of manufacturing and price people are willing to pay You need a more narrow linear situation where a temperature gradient is more confined and exaggerated by the small diameter relative to length also why the base is typically wider and top narrower to keep the motion more exciting, speeding up to top when hot. And slowing as it falls.
I've always fantasized of a Taurus shaped lava lamp. Or mobius strip. Like I said it here. Now someone will make it and make money on it lol. And I'll be like I had that idea. Damn.
I still say when I can’t sleep at night, the lava lamp is really nice to have. It is so calming. Since mine doesn’t work anymore, I need to sit down & see what’s up. In college when stress was up the lamp was on. Thanks Simon, a trip on nostalgia is always cool!
Like, Faroutsville! 😎✌️
Neat!
It's kind of like the camp TV without the open flame.
Good one! I always considered a campfire like the first TV
In the 1960's many psychedelics were not illegal.
Huh. I knew there had to be a rational reason for my hatred of cloudflare.
I guessed it would be something about making use of the random bubble patterns to generate randomness. Looks like it was the case.
Lot of typos in the on-screen portion around 3:15
Singapore using a pallet of Uranium would be the neutron-activated gold standard. But it turns out he said "pellett".
I had one in 70s/80s. I loved it.
Hehehe. Bow-ee
A wall of lava lamps... that's a 4kW random number generator.
Gets hot enough in Perth here to not need to plug 'er in...❤
I like the pun in the thumbnail 😂
While no algorithm can produce random numbers, true random number generators do appears on many computer chips. Set a pair of inverters metastable with a 50-50 chance of resolving to 0 or 1. Then let the electrical noise in the system push it one way or the other.
To get that chip to be truly random is a non-trivial exercise. IIRC, an attacker could induce fluctuations in the power supply that can cause weak implementations to emit somewhat predictable results. Those lava lamps are much better at giving truly random results.
@@realulli I happen to be very familiar with such a circuit, for work-related reasons. They are confident enough of it's security that they released a white paper with many details.
If the result is too low entropy, it's thrown out and the capacitors charged to nudge it to a more statistically likely level of entropy. It would be practically impossible to account for all the variables, especially in low nanometer technologies. And from there the raw entropy is fed into a pseudo random number generator with hardware hashing.
There's millions of these out there and I doubt anyone has seriously tried to exploit it.
@@RichardSmith-ot3zk then you know better than me it's a non-trivial exercise. But it seems the guys you work with did their homework and my info is outdated.
A wall of lava lamps is cooler, though! 😋
The wall of lava lamps as an encoder was featured in an NCIS episode
It’s about dang time
I wonder how many viewers tensed up at the appearance of the Cloudflare logo like I did, thinking it was the start of a VPN pitch...
I suspect the whole video was, but the subject is geeky enough that I don't mind. 🙂
I still have my lava lamp that I got in high school in the mid-90s.
I always thought making a lava lamp involved getting real lava😅
Yeah Man!
I freaking love lava lamps
I had a lava lamp in the early 1970's too.😊
Now I want a lava lamp.
So whats stopping someone from reverse engineering lava lamps.?
I miss my lava lamps now. Had 2 when i was a teen. 😢
The lava lamp, the true star of Georg Rockall-Schmidt
Very interesting
"Are you being served" is a movie about an inner city British dance team competing against an upper class dance team.
I still have a few newer ones floating around 😅
In 2015, a new design was introduced that uses ferrofluid in place of wax.
The text portions of this are full of misspellings
A stoned Simon must be a riot.😂
Got two in my bedroom.
Groovy
Cloudflare using the same offices as Oracle had, who were the original ones to use them for that. however you would have had to pay Oracle to use them, so they only became popular once the patent had expired.
Maybe starfishes can do the same amount of encryption?
Nice
If only I could whisper in Simon’s ear how he is my ASMR ❤
Tom Scott did a video on this
I had a Lava Lamp during my more enthusiastic stoner days.
Whoever writes the title screens needs a proofreader. Are you churning these out so fast nobody bothers to read the text?
I want a new lava lamp now. Damnnit
Still made in Poole
Currently have one and just turned it on it's the green one..lol