Not me, it would probably get over produced and loose all character and enjoyableness, not to mention that he would run out of things to debunk really quickly, it's perfect as it is right now, you could maybe just watch his videos on a TV in the morning sometimes to get the effect
What’s kinda funny is that I actually used to own one of these lasers (tragically it did not survive moving across the country) and at night you could see the beam in its entirety almost like how the cameras do. Either that or my eyes are actually cameras and I never noticed
Wearing glasses or having astigmatism can cause you to perceive "lens flares", or the lights bleeding out and appearing larger than they should (extremely noticeable when driving at night). In the dark your eyes also dilate more and let more light in, which helps enhance the effect.
I'm surprised you could get Mr Flare back for this video, considering all the work he's been getting from JJ Abrams. He must be rolling in it. Nice of him to slum on TH-cam once in a while.
Hmm, years back I created a fun physics demonstration involving lasers for students. I used lenses to de-focus a laser pointer's beam until it was wide enough to illuminate a whole penny. The resulting shadow was cast on a wall and demonstrates an interesting phenomena. Diffraction and constructive interference leads to the penny's shadow having a bright point right in the center. It's unexplainable under a ray traced model of light but perfectly understandable in the wave model. The point is that widening a laser beam is trivially easy with lenses; we just don't usually do it since we just did a bunch of work to concentrate the light and widening it is usually pointless unless we just want to create a cool visual effect. A system of two lenses would be able to widen the beam while preserving the parallel nature of laser light.
5 years late and you might already know this but that is called Poisson spot, which is saying how the brightest point of a shadow is in the center (it was named after someone trying to criticize the absurdity of light travelling in a wave), action lab and (I think) vertisium have some pretty cool videos on this
I'm so glad someone like Captain D is smart enough to actually research the subject they're talking about, unlike whoever that guy was that he featured. Lasers like these happen to actually be my hobby, I think the only video on my channel is of one of my lasers being tested. Laser Pointer Forums is a great place (most of the time, aside from drama) to learn about lasers and the laser community, with a surprising 40,000+ members and over a million posts!
That was Brian Dunning. He is a man of average intelligence with a broken thought process based on dogmatism and his conceited ego. There's a clip of him on the Joe Rogan podcast where he says stupid shit adamantly and refuses to relent despite how badly and obviously wrong he is.
Omglosser he actually ran circles around Rogan on that episode, it was cringeworthy as fuck for anyone with half a brain. Rest of what you said is true though. Hashtag 1 year later
Rangaros it was a joke my friend. i was pointing out how the guy was like accidentally implying that this show was fake by saying it should be a real show.
It's interesting that around 4:00, when he shows us the footage of what the laser would look like without looking through a camera.... it was still shot on a camera. That means he edited camera footage to make it look like real vision.
In fact, that was an accident. They were a Handycam camcorders line called “Nigthvision” released by Sony in the early 2000s that used a night vision mode: a filter that clearly saw the light emitted by an infrared LED that is invisible to the human eye, a technology based on night vision tactical glasses used by military forces. This see-trough phenomenon occurred when using the cameras in said night mode when recording in daylight. That caused some controversy because could see through thin fabrics what most female garments are made of, implying even that its use were restricted in some countries and later ceased to be used since the night mode only gave a greenish or grayish image leaving its use relegated just to surveillance cameras while modern prosumer cameras use higher ISO or sensitivity factor to capture all colors in low lighting conditions. Maybe you can get used Sony "Nightvision” cameras on Ebay, but that technology is already obsolete.
@@lu_ck Obsolete because these old cameras only record on videotape and there is no way to adapt to digital. Obsolete in the sense that other methods are used to record video in the dark with a camcorder... As I said, it is no longer used in consumer video cameras, only in CCTV and video surveillance systems. Obsolete because it is not used massively, not because there is another method (which there is not for now) and no attempt was even made to transfer said technology to Smartphones.
Having been in a laser lab a couple of times (though mostly just visiting), I can attest that there are real lasers that do show up such beam that can be seen with the naked eye (I think it was a 1w laser). The key difference is that there would be the equivalent of tiny lense glares (visually) from dust particles being incinerated when they passed into the beam. That said, those lasers were also somewhat larger than the one(s) shown, in the order of half a meter if I remember correctly.
I don't know why, but seeing the Captain hammering the first nail, only for it to mysteriously spin out of its hole was hilarious. It just became a top.
That was a 1w blue laser. You shouldn't have taken your safety glasses off while it was on. Any laser above 500mw is a class 4 laser (yours being 1000mw was well into class 4). The light from class 4 lasers can be harmful to your eye even when they are being reflected off of a matte surface (e.g. walls, floors, appliances, etc.) can cause permanent eye damage. Since it was a blue laser it is especially dangerous because! To quote Wikipedia Blue-light Hazard is defined as the potential for a photochemical induced retinal injury resulting from radiation exposure at wavelengths primarily between 400 nm and 500 nm. The mechanisms for photochemical induced retinal injury are caused by the absorption of light by photoreceptors in the eye. Under normal conditions when light hits a photoreceptor, the cell bleaches and becomes useless until it has recovered through a metabolic process called the visual cycle. Absorption of blue light, however, has been shown to cause a reversal of the process where cells become unbleached and responsive again to light before it is ready. This greatly increases the potential for oxidative damage. By this mechanism, some biological tissues such as skin, the lens of the eye, and in particular the retina may show irreversible changes induced by prolonged exposure to moderate levels of UV radiation and short-wavelength light. Since blue lasers have a wavelength of 445nm or 450nm (the one you were using appeared to be 445nm whereas the one in the video you were talking about appears to be 450nm) they are right in the middle of the Blue-light hazard. Playing with high power handheld lasers is fun (I have several including a 6000mw 450nm (blue with a hint of purple) and a 5000mw 532nm (green) lasers in my collection) just be careful and always wear protective eyewear. Also, make sure your protective eyewear is for the specific wavelength of the beam you are using! Protective laser eyewear isn't expensive (you can get a pair for less than $20 on Amazon) and make sure the O.D. (Optical Density) for the wavelength of laser you are using is high enough to be safe with the power of laser you are using. Also for anyone wondering about what kind of protective eyewear +CaptainDisillusion should have been wearing. The required Optical Density for laser safety eyewear for a 1W 445nm laser is 3+ for accidental exposures of a quarter of a second. However, an O.D. of 4.4+ is required for longer exposures. Please be safe and don't go blind everyone.
+xXxNoScopeMLGxXx Thank you, Prof. Laser Wisdom. You're absolutely right, I should not have removed my goggles (even though doing so for a brief moment while pointing the laser away from my face in a large room full of dark matte surfaces hardly qualifies as "prolonged exposure to moderate levels of UV radiation"). But we entertainers sometimes have to take extreme risks like this in order to make a funny face at the end of a shot. Also for anyone wondering, I was in fact wearing the correct protective eyewear. It was provided by the manufacturer specifically for use with this laser torch.
+CaptainDisillusion I'm glad you are being safe! I just don't want you to go blind is all. Also, there are a lot of people who buy very high powered lasers and don't even think to buy protective eyewear. Class 4 lasers are completely different than the "toy" lasers you can buy (which are usually class 2) and there are tons of people that don't understand that shining a class 4 laser at a glossy white wall can be bad without eye protection and that even if you get eye protection you need to make sure it's the right kind. I just wish people emphasized how dangerous high powered lasers can be more often.
I really love when you show that things are plausible or that we can't really draw conclusions. It's easy to just say everything's fake. It's harder to look critically at things.
After watching the Beakman episode I subscribed to your channel, and while watching your debunking videos I thought "how is it possible that I'm just knowing about this guy and his channel?". I had watched this video 4 years ago, but I never got another of your videos from he TH-cam feed.
I am currently binge-watching (spelling?) your channel and let me preface this by saying I love all your content, and your dedication to knowledge and skepticism. I don't know why because I personally don't know you or your story at all, but this video is for me when you really fell into the Captain Disillusion stride. The humor is just perfect, everything looks good, the voices are great, everything. For me, the Quick D video playlist was the best Captain Disillusion character, providing the perfect mix of humor and knowledge, so I just wanted to comment on the small, tonal shift between the previous videos and this one. Thanks for everything you do, keep up the great content!
I learn something new with every one of these videos... and also laugh along the journey as well! The mix of knowledge and jokes is just perfect for sure!
Captain Disillusion should have millions of subscribers. The quality of his videos are amazing and so is the content. Shocked that he isn't a top 100 youtuber
Hello there from 7 years ago. He's got a few million now, but certainly still way too few. And I think it's only natural. Because sheer passion isn't enough to drive a channel. His work is the best in the field - but it's very technical and doesn't appeal to a wide mass of people. So the bad thing is: He doesn't grow as insanely as something like Mr. Beast with his absolute shit content, but the good thing is: The vast majority of his viewers are the kind, which is very invested and truely a fan. He doesn't have the biggest fanbase, but the truest one. That is worth quite a lot in my eyes.
Actually, multimode laser diodes like the one used in that phaser housing do produce a wide beam since they project on two axis. I have a 4.5 watt 465nm laser diode housed in a Solar Force flashlight and the beam looks just like that. In order to 'fix' the uneven axis of the laser you have to add cylindrical lenses after the collimater.
I can appreciate the work CD puts into his videos, I’m a blender / FCP geek. Well done CD, I’m lookup up your patron page right now. Keep up the great and hard work!
1:23 "Wouldn't this be all over the news?" Yes, i see it as a headline "Lasers available everywhere for a long time going through fog produces a beam! (an effect everyone knows about)"
I've got a 5 mW green lazer that's not even close to as powerful as the one CD tests with in this video and in a reasonably dark room with no smoke/fog/etc, you can see the beam with the naked eye just fine. With fog or smoke, it's positively impressive.
I have actually used that exact same toy phaser from the mid-90s as a prop with a real laser in it for a costume. 50mW green laser diode replaced the lightbulb, replaced the 2 AA batteries with a 9v and wired in resistors to adjust current to the soundboard and speaker. 100mW would have been brighter, but a 50mW diode is cheap on eBay. The wavelength of green makes the laser seem brighter to the eye. You could see the beam without smoke (the natural dust in the air) and even outside as long as it was night. Actually, you could see the beam just barely enough in a florescent-lit room. I know. I did it without a soldering iron in a homeless shelter in 2014. No fog. No tools. No money. No bullshit. And not on camera.
Friend has a very powerful laser pointer. You can see the beam in dim lighting and really well in the dark. It's amazing to see when used outside shining it into the night sky. Reminds me of laser lights used shows.
"when you're not looking through a camera".. he says as i watch the recording.. which was filmed on a camera, surely. I didn't see the simulation warning before the transition so I gave a massive skeptical eye squint to that line. awesome video by the way.
GamerCainey he could also use a special camera that doesn't see into the infrared spectrum (wouldn't be surprised at CD owning expensive cameras since he is a video editor)
Laser stands for Light Amplification through Stimulated Electromagnetic Radiation, Maser is Magnetic Amplification through Stimulated Electromagnetic Radiation, and Phaser is Photon Amplification through Stimulated Electromagnetic Radiation. Lasers and Phasers are practically identical.
Captain D! Do you dub your videos? I've been binge watching all of your stuff, and I'm somewhat drunk now. Your audio is extremely clear and sounds like you may have recorded it after the initial edits. You definitely know what you're doing so I wouldn't be surprised!
inherently, there is a problem with the debunk. I have a 2.5 watt blue laser that has a beam that is COMPLETELY visible in day light. Sure, my laser is 150% more powerful than they one in question here, but, you can power even a 5,000mW laser with a couple of high drain 18650 batteries. the only way for sure to truly debunk this video is with the shape of the beam. UV and blue lasers aren't round. the beam of a UV laser is flat at the top of the diode. the beam of a blue laser is rectangular in shape. worth mentioning, the UV beam shown in the video is a 405nm laser. The beam used for the debunk is 445nm. A 1,000mW 405nm laser diode MUST be used to accurately debunk the video. The 405nm beam will appear much dimmer to the eye due to it being on the extreme side of the visible spectrum as will a red (650-690nm) laser. Also, UV lasers are much more intense in their power density then even a blue laser with only a couple dozen nanometer difference in wavelength.
Was I living under a rock till date that I didn't see your videos before :o Subscribed immediately (I have only subscribed to 3 channels so far). Great content and amazing quality.
Oskar Skog Technically power could be correct, but seeing as power is measured in watts, it would be more descriptive and informative to say watts. The legal limit is defined in watts, so it makes sense and is a better word than power.
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The almost decade long commitment to this character, general video vibe, content focus, and quality are nothing short of astounding.
it really is, he deserves a million subscribers, pew die pie was an idiot that screamed playing games, now he has 48mil subs.
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+The Id WAH PEOPLE LIKE SOMETHING I DON'T LIKE WAHH
I remember when Pewdiepie only has 48 million subs...
almost 57 now...
3:45 - "unaltered footage" - Oh yeah? WHERE'D THE TEXT COME FROM THEN????
Zwish King an overlay in a movie creation software
Checkmate atheists!
This comment is so underrated
SirBanana I cringed so hard when I saw this comment that I just turned off my phone.
@SirBanana
Lol
"I thought I turned you off"
"You sure do"
Classic!
Favorite thing he ever said lol
Not sure how many people realize that light travels at speed of light therefore does not experience time, hence his reply "you sure DO (not did)".
@@jiabaod the other meaning was better!!!!
Jiabao Deng wooshed soooooo much
MaxLinker44 worsh
Building an exact replica garage and keeping it empty as the control will always get a laugh out of me
Same. Along with "if you can hear me through the fake sound effect added in post". Guy's got chops.
Funny mf
I would love to see Captain Disillusion as a Saturday morning kids show.
if only Saturdays were once a month.
Not me, it would probably get over produced and loose all character and enjoyableness, not to mention that he would run out of things to debunk really quickly, it's perfect as it is right now, you could maybe just watch his videos on a TV in the morning sometimes to get the effect
The digital bill Nye lol
Yeah
"This is how I eat Rice Krispies"
"Hmm... and this is how I punch people"
SMACK
that's what this is
2:27 "You got fat."
Mr Flare has the best lines.
The delivery too
@@blevination I know right! XD
How about the exchange at 5:29
🤣hadn't noticed
"When you're not looking through a camera" ... but ... we're still looking through a camera?
he edited that scene to show what it looks like to the naked eye.
Gary Coffelt
Duh.
I figured you probably knew but couldn't tell. Lol
+Gary Coffelt Nah it was just some tweaks to the settings of the camera.
Cristopher Casenillo ah ok
What’s kinda funny is that I actually used to own one of these lasers (tragically it did not survive moving across the country) and at night you could see the beam in its entirety almost like how the cameras do. Either that or my eyes are actually cameras and I never noticed
Wearing glasses or having astigmatism can cause you to perceive "lens flares", or the lights bleeding out and appearing larger than they should (extremely noticeable when driving at night). In the dark your eyes also dilate more and let more light in, which helps enhance the effect.
or he's just a robot. seriously, people in reading into things and actually knowing stuff nowadays!
Astronomers use lasers to aim telescopes and point out objects and the full beam is definitely visible at night.
@@dpcubing1521 facts. On the internet knowing stuff is weird.
@@dpcubing1521 he can't be a robot. wouldn't have made it past the CAPTCHA.
would a reverse debunk be a bunk?
A rebunk
An enbunk?
Greg Wasdyke It would be bunk, making it truth as bunk means false.
I think that's just called proving something.
_Macintosh Plus 420 plays_
you are amazing
Wtf
oh god damnit, you're everywhere !!!!
:)
Yes he is.
www.change.org/p/the-disillusionists-make-trollface-girl-an-actual-song
Pikapetey Animations true
I'm surprised you could get Mr Flare back for this video, considering all the work he's been getting from JJ Abrams. He must be rolling in it. Nice of him to slum on TH-cam once in a while.
Egan Penney ha
Hahahahahaha!!!! ;'D
Well, he and the captain do have a bit of history, and he probably owes the captain a couple of favours
He’s cheating on the Captain with another captain...
Hmm, years back I created a fun physics demonstration involving lasers for students. I used lenses to de-focus a laser pointer's beam until it was wide enough to illuminate a whole penny. The resulting shadow was cast on a wall and demonstrates an interesting phenomena. Diffraction and constructive interference leads to the penny's shadow having a bright point right in the center. It's unexplainable under a ray traced model of light but perfectly understandable in the wave model.
The point is that widening a laser beam is trivially easy with lenses; we just don't usually do it since we just did a bunch of work to concentrate the light and widening it is usually pointless unless we just want to create a cool visual effect. A system of two lenses would be able to widen the beam while preserving the parallel nature of laser light.
But that means decreasing the intensity of light.
Don't forget the shadow turned into the opposite color of what the light of the laser was.
5 years late and you might already know this but that is called Poisson spot, which is saying how the brightest point of a shadow is in the center (it was named after someone trying to criticize the absurdity of light travelling in a wave), action lab and (I think) vertisium have some pretty cool videos on this
this feels so 90's. This guy could have been a segment of the Bill Nye the Science guy show.
Beakman's World
@@XiahouJoe man i loved that show
@@tonyahanj7808 yeah?
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Everybody see this link
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“A laser like this can’t exist”
Styro pyro: am I a joke to you
Lmao yep I watch him all the time, and that laser is nothing compared to what styropyro has built
I actually thought he was gonna have stryro pyro on the show. But no, lense flare.
@@lossnt557 Same
Lossn't that would have been amazing 🥳
Yeah that dude didn't know what the hell he was talking about. "Building sized power supply" my ass.
"I thought I turned you off..."
"You sure do!"
All of my yes.
1:50 "You need a powersource the size of a building to pop a baloon" What do they make baloons out of where that guy lived?
Here is Styropyro`s laser in action that is more powerful and smaller popping balloons like nothing lol . th-cam.com/video/h9lbrr04XBQ/w-d-xo.html
Lead.
he actually just knows really small buildings
@@a64738 this was 2012
@@generalgrievous2202 laser technology like this has existed for decades.
I'm so glad someone like Captain D is smart enough to actually research the subject they're talking about, unlike whoever that guy was that he featured. Lasers like these happen to actually be my hobby, I think the only video on my channel is of one of my lasers being tested. Laser Pointer Forums is a great place (most of the time, aside from drama) to learn about lasers and the laser community, with a surprising 40,000+ members and over a million posts!
That was Brian Dunning. He is a man of average intelligence with a broken thought process based on dogmatism and his conceited ego. There's a clip of him on the Joe Rogan podcast where he says stupid shit adamantly and refuses to relent despite how badly and obviously wrong he is.
+Omglosser yea I could kinda see just from the posts captain d read, he's kinda a know-it-all that doesn't really know shit.
As an outsider, what kind of drama happens on laser pointer forums? Just curious
Omglosser he actually ran circles around Rogan on that episode, it was cringeworthy as fuck for anyone with half a brain. Rest of what you said is true though. Hashtag 1 year later
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Everybody see this 🔗
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I saw “7 years ago” and thought, “wow, that was so long ag-
*Sep 14, 2012*
What?
What?
da hell?
What's your point?
That was a long time ago, this is confusing
This should be a real show for kids
yeah im tired of this dude and his fake show bullshit
+blindskywatcher I think he meant this should be aired on TV, which would help kids to get the bigger picture
+blindskywatcher lol...
+blindskywatcher then don't watch.....? It's not that hard man.
Rangaros it was a joke my friend. i was pointing out how the guy was like accidentally implying that this show was fake by saying it should be a real show.
3:58 I love it when the cat sound was added implying that he hit and popped a cat
Hahahaah! I love the blue lens flare -- "I thought I turned you off--" ... "You sure do!". LOST IT!
It's green! Check your corporeal privilege! :p
Kirk Jensen-Cross I thought I was the only one that got that joke
Can someone please explain...?
Daniel Leandro He "turns him off"
Captain D is unattractive to Mr. Flare
Ah, sex jokes even Captain D knows when/where to make them
It's interesting that around 4:00, when he shows us the footage of what the laser would look like without looking through a camera.... it was still shot on a camera.
That means he edited camera footage to make it look like real vision.
Hence why the lower third said "simulation"
I fucking love this. Smart, funny, educational, adventurous. You've made an instant fan, captain.
+MrHappyBollox Not me, that's for fucking sure.
4:30 We can't just skip over that. How do I get one of those see-through cameras? I need it... for science...yeah.
In fact, that was an accident. They were a Handycam camcorders line called “Nigthvision” released by Sony in the early 2000s that used a night vision mode: a filter that clearly saw the light emitted by an infrared LED that is invisible to the human eye, a technology based on night vision tactical glasses used by military forces. This see-trough phenomenon occurred when using the cameras in said night mode when recording in daylight. That caused some controversy because could see through thin fabrics what most female garments are made of, implying even that its use were restricted in some countries and later ceased to be used since the night mode only gave a greenish or grayish image leaving its use relegated just to surveillance cameras while modern prosumer cameras use higher ISO or sensitivity factor to capture all colors in low lighting conditions.
Maybe you can get used Sony "Nightvision” cameras on Ebay, but that technology is already obsolete.
@@Nolroa "but that technology is already obsolete"
are there new ways to see through clothing?
@@lu_ck Obsolete because these old cameras only record on videotape and there is no way to adapt to digital. Obsolete in the sense that other methods are used to record video in the dark with a camcorder...
As I said, it is no longer used in consumer video cameras, only in CCTV and video surveillance systems. Obsolete because it is not used massively, not because there is another method (which there is not for now) and no attempt was even made to transfer said technology to Smartphones.
Having been in a laser lab a couple of times (though mostly just visiting), I can attest that there are real lasers that do show up such beam that can be seen with the naked eye (I think it was a 1w laser). The key difference is that there would be the equivalent of tiny lense glares (visually) from dust particles being incinerated when they passed into the beam. That said, those lasers were also somewhat larger than the one(s) shown, in the order of half a meter if I remember correctly.
5:30
"I thought I turned you off"
"You sure do!"
I absolutely love the fact that you got Brian Dunning from Skeptoid, one of my favorite podcasts, to voice his comments lol
That was a special touch indeed! And they are both still going with their content!
I don't know why, but seeing the Captain hammering the first nail, only for it to mysteriously spin out of its hole was hilarious. It just became a top.
That was a 1w blue laser. You shouldn't have taken your safety glasses off while it was on. Any laser above 500mw is a class 4 laser (yours being 1000mw was well into class 4). The light from class 4 lasers can be harmful to your eye even when they are being reflected off of a matte surface (e.g. walls, floors, appliances, etc.) can cause permanent eye damage. Since it was a blue laser it is especially dangerous because!
To quote Wikipedia
Blue-light Hazard is defined as the potential for a photochemical induced retinal injury resulting from radiation exposure at wavelengths primarily between 400 nm and 500 nm. The mechanisms for photochemical induced retinal injury are caused by the absorption of light by photoreceptors in the eye. Under normal conditions when light hits a photoreceptor, the cell bleaches and becomes useless until it has recovered through a metabolic process called the visual cycle. Absorption of blue light, however, has been shown to cause a reversal of the process where cells become unbleached and responsive again to light before it is ready. This greatly increases the potential for oxidative damage. By this mechanism, some biological tissues such as skin, the lens of the eye, and in particular the retina may show irreversible changes induced by prolonged exposure to moderate levels of UV radiation and short-wavelength light.
Since blue lasers have a wavelength of 445nm or 450nm (the one you were using appeared to be 445nm whereas the one in the video you were talking about appears to be 450nm) they are right in the middle of the Blue-light hazard.
Playing with high power handheld lasers is fun (I have several including a 6000mw 450nm (blue with a hint of purple) and a 5000mw 532nm (green) lasers in my collection) just be careful and always wear protective eyewear. Also, make sure your protective eyewear is for the specific wavelength of the beam you are using! Protective laser eyewear isn't expensive (you can get a pair for less than $20 on Amazon) and make sure the O.D. (Optical Density) for the wavelength of laser you are using is high enough to be safe with the power of laser you are using.
Also for anyone wondering about what kind of protective eyewear +CaptainDisillusion should have been wearing. The required Optical Density for laser safety eyewear for a 1W 445nm laser is 3+ for accidental exposures of a quarter of a second. However, an O.D. of 4.4+ is required for longer exposures.
Please be safe and don't go blind everyone.
+xXxNoScopeMLGxXx Thank you, Prof. Laser Wisdom. You're absolutely right, I should not have removed my goggles (even though doing so for a brief moment while pointing the laser away from my face in a large room full of dark matte surfaces hardly qualifies as "prolonged exposure to moderate levels of UV radiation"). But we entertainers sometimes have to take extreme risks like this in order to make a funny face at the end of a shot. Also for anyone wondering, I was in fact wearing the correct protective eyewear. It was provided by the manufacturer specifically for use with this laser torch.
+CaptainDisillusion I'm glad you are being safe! I just don't want you to go blind is all. Also, there are a lot of people who buy very high powered lasers and don't even think to buy protective eyewear. Class 4 lasers are completely different than the "toy" lasers you can buy (which are usually class 2) and there are tons of people that don't understand that shining a class 4 laser at a glossy white wall can be bad without eye protection and that even if you get eye protection you need to make sure it's the right kind.
I just wish people emphasized how dangerous high powered lasers can be more often.
Yeah I had a friend shine his 1W at a popcorn white wall and it hurt my eyes from the refraction alone.
bla bla bla safety
Cool
I really love when you show that things are plausible or that we can't really draw conclusions. It's easy to just say everything's fake. It's harder to look critically at things.
Man all the different outros in these videos they’re just great!
"I thought I turned you off"
"You sure do!"
Hahaaaaaaa 🤣😂
His channel quality is so good that his 2012 stuff is good.
After watching the Beakman episode I subscribed to your channel, and while watching your debunking videos I thought "how is it possible that I'm just knowing about this guy and his channel?". I had watched this video 4 years ago, but I never got another of your videos from he TH-cam feed.
I am currently binge-watching (spelling?) your channel and let me preface this by saying I love all your content, and your dedication to knowledge and skepticism. I don't know why because I personally don't know you or your story at all, but this video is for me when you really fell into the Captain Disillusion stride. The humor is just perfect, everything looks good, the voices are great, everything. For me, the Quick D video playlist was the best Captain Disillusion character, providing the perfect mix of humor and knowledge, so I just wanted to comment on the small, tonal shift between the previous videos and this one.
Thanks for everything you do, keep up the great content!
Haha, the voiceover for the TH-cam comment. So accurate.
"You got fat." Ooooh, I love Mr Flare so much.
A video this good from 2012 is a rare gem
I learn something new with every one of these videos... and also laugh along the journey as well! The mix of knowledge and jokes is just perfect for sure!
Captain Disillusion should have millions of subscribers. The quality of his videos are amazing and so is the content. Shocked that he isn't a top 100 youtuber
He's over 1M now. I discovered him via a Mark Rober video.
@@Autotrope Almost 2 million now, late May of 2020.
Hello there from 7 years ago. He's got a few million now, but certainly still way too few. And I think it's only natural. Because sheer passion isn't enough to drive a channel. His work is the best in the field - but it's very technical and doesn't appeal to a wide mass of people. So the bad thing is: He doesn't grow as insanely as something like Mr. Beast with his absolute shit content, but the good thing is: The vast majority of his viewers are the kind, which is very invested and truely a fan. He doesn't have the biggest fanbase, but the truest one. That is worth quite a lot in my eyes.
Wait... a camera that sees through clothes? And you still talk about lasers?
it's just a camera operating in low light. look up IR filter removal, you can make a lot of cameras into thermal imaging devices this way.
@@ronindebeatrice r/woosh
@@pagreg888 the joke went over his head. Therefore, woosh
Yet another person afflicted by the horrible dunning-Kruger effect...
I don’t even know I bother looking at replies to comments anymore. This just gets more and more toxic the farther you scroll down
"Itch, that's what your a son of" LOL
*you are
you're*
*whom you're the son of
I once heard someone tell that to their son.
Actually, multimode laser diodes like the one used in that phaser housing do produce a wide beam since they project on two axis. I have a 4.5 watt 465nm laser diode housed in a Solar Force flashlight and the beam looks just like that. In order to 'fix' the uneven axis of the laser you have to add cylindrical lenses after the collimater.
"I thought I turned you off."
"You sure do!"
The best joke in all of CD.
I can appreciate the work CD puts into his videos, I’m a blender / FCP geek. Well done CD, I’m lookup up your patron page right now. Keep up the great and hard work!
How did I not know about your videos before!? These are great.
1:23 "Wouldn't this be all over the news?"
Yes, i see it as a headline
"Lasers available everywhere for a long time going through fog produces a beam! (an effect everyone knows about)"
2:57 HOW COULD YOU MURDER THAT POOR GREEN LENS FLARE?!?! JUST BECAUSE HE EXPOSED YOUR CORPOREAL PRIVLEGE!? *YOU MONSTER!!!!*
lol
2019 and this dude is still posting strong. Took me about a week to find this after subbing. This guy is awesome.
“I thoughtI turned you off.”
“You sure do!”
Ah, I love Mr. Flare.
“I thought I turned you off”
“You sure do”
Same room, same outfit, same style and same man...
We love you!
I loved that ending skit where he teleported up and sideways. XD
The return of Mr. Flare!
I adore your work. it always feels like christmas when a new video comes out.
I've got a 5 mW green lazer that's not even close to as powerful as the one CD tests with in this video and in a reasonably dark room with no smoke/fog/etc, you can see the beam with the naked eye just fine. With fog or smoke, it's positively impressive.
Crazy how he starts it by showing how he's been doing this for that long. 11 years ago. Thanks for staying with us Captain D!
way back in 2012, captain d was doin this. definitely deserves more than 1.4 mil subs.
1:11 the cat!! 😂
Cat 😂
"I thought I turned you off."
"You sure do!"
The best comedy in a TH-cam video I have ever seen. Amazing video!
“I thought I turned you off”
“You sure do!”
That’s...
Hilarious
4:15 that gunshot like sound means you about to be educated
Can you now make a video detailing how you make your videos? They look so well produced....
You would expect that the son of the shoemaker has no shoes???
I can't believe you have been on youtube for so long and I just discovered this channel, AWESOME!
I have actually used that exact same toy phaser from the mid-90s as a prop with a real laser in it for a costume.
50mW green laser diode replaced the lightbulb, replaced the 2 AA batteries with a 9v and wired in resistors to adjust current to the soundboard and speaker.
100mW would have been brighter, but a 50mW diode is cheap on eBay. The wavelength of green makes the laser seem brighter to the eye. You could see the beam without smoke (the natural dust in the air) and even outside as long as it was night. Actually, you could see the beam just barely enough in a florescent-lit room.
I know. I did it without a soldering iron in a homeless shelter in 2014. No fog. No tools. No money. No bullshit. And not on camera.
This is so beautiful that I feel like crying! Thank You Captain D!!
3:40 "now if you can hear me through the fake sound effect added in post"... lol
How have I been in a life without this guy, it's brilliant.
"Theres no lazer beam in the world as wide and bright as that one"
stypopyro's lazer bazooka: "I beg your pardon?"
Its LASER not Lazer.
*laughs in laser minigun*
Friend has a very powerful laser pointer. You can see the beam in dim lighting and really well in the dark. It's amazing to see when used outside shining it into the night sky. Reminds me of laser lights used shows.
I just got the jokes from Mr. Flair, lol "you got fat" and others lol
5:35 Wow. A reference to Wichita! As a Kansan I don't hear that every day. Keep up the great videos!
"when you're not looking through a camera".. he says as i watch the recording.. which was filmed on a camera, surely.
I didn't see the simulation warning before the transition so I gave a massive skeptical eye squint to that line.
awesome video by the way.
GamerCainey he could also use a special camera that doesn't see into the infrared spectrum (wouldn't be surprised at CD owning expensive cameras since he is a video editor)
only just discovered this amazing channel; now binge watching
1:35
Holy hell I remember that old comments section layout. I feel so old.
Laser stands for Light Amplification through Stimulated Electromagnetic Radiation, Maser is Magnetic Amplification through Stimulated Electromagnetic Radiation, and Phaser is Photon Amplification through Stimulated Electromagnetic Radiation. Lasers and Phasers are practically identical.
Captain D! Do you dub your videos? I've been binge watching all of your stuff, and I'm somewhat drunk now. Your audio is extremely clear and sounds like you may have recorded it after the initial edits. You definitely know what you're doing so I wouldn't be surprised!
the loknar knew... he just didn't wanna elaborate.
inherently, there is a problem with the debunk. I have a 2.5 watt blue laser that has a beam that is COMPLETELY visible in day light. Sure, my laser is 150% more powerful than they one in question here, but, you can power even a 5,000mW laser with a couple of high drain 18650 batteries. the only way for sure to truly debunk this video is with the shape of the beam. UV and blue lasers aren't round. the beam of a UV laser is flat at the top of the diode. the beam of a blue laser is rectangular in shape. worth mentioning, the UV beam shown in the video is a 405nm laser. The beam used for the debunk is 445nm. A 1,000mW 405nm laser diode MUST be used to accurately debunk the video. The 405nm beam will appear much dimmer to the eye due to it being on the extreme side of the visible spectrum as will a red (650-690nm) laser. Also, UV lasers are much more intense in their power density then even a blue laser with only a couple dozen nanometer difference in wavelength.
Almost exactly five years after the first debunk video! Crazy to see how far CD came while not changing the basis of his content
Oh Captain my Captain
Was I living under a rock till date that I didn't see your videos before :o Subscribed immediately (I have only subscribed to 3 channels so far). Great content and amazing quality.
When you’re not looking through a camera
Me: then how are you recording this???
The Rouge Mischief you spelled rogue wrong
I wanna styropyro's reaction to CD putting on those sunglasses instead of proper safety goggles.
Just found this guy. awesome
1:32 "Wouldn't this be all over the news"
Oh yeah, I can see the headlines now: "Person Puts Laser Into Toy"
Wow! What a story that would make!
I think people forget that skeptisism =/= intelligence
Scepticism is good unless you are biased to deny.
I'm watching it in 2017. Your video flow and content always great. Amazing work Captain D.
You can see the beam if you use more watts then legal in America
*power
Watt is the unit of measurement of power, using the word power is more grammatically correct.
Yet can can buy a 1 Watt diode but not a 1 power diode... hmmmm
Your schools must be failing. Even machines don't understand the difference between units of measurement and the quantities they measure.
Oskar Skog Technically power could be correct, but seeing as power is measured in watts, it would be more descriptive and informative to say watts. The legal limit is defined in watts, so it makes sense and is a better word than power.
There are some slight grammar issues which may make power seem more appropriate in this sentence, but it is obvious what they were getting at.
Why havent i discovered you much earlier. Enjoying your content!!!
i have a laser that you can actually see the beam in daylight well not as in that video but kinda
this is the first truly great video on your channel captain.
is there a way to donate or sponsor to the CaptainDisillusion team?
Late to the party but yes, he has a patreon.
"Greetings children, it's me Captain Disilussion, and you're *watching Disney Channel* "
2021 still re watching old capt. D videos! Who else?
Who in 2019??!
Best damn channel hands down unironically genius content
How come Brian Dunning isn't in prison?
That transporter gag at the end made me laugh out loud.
Wait, did you say early camcorder night vision could see through clothes?