Laser Weapons - In The Movies

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  • A brief overview of movie lasers and how they might function in real life.
    #starwars #startrek #laser
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    Movies featured:
    Flash Gordon 1980
    Starship Trooper Invasion 2012
    Rick and Morty
    Clear and Present Danger 1992
    Seinfeld
    A New Hope 1977
    MechWarrior (Game)
    Invincible (Series)
    Akira 1988
    Robotech (Series)
    Moonraker 1979
    Goldeneye 1995
    Iron Man 208
    Robot Jox 1989
    Star Trek TNG
    Star Trek DS9
    Resident Evil 2002
    Star Trek: Nemesis
    The Empire Strikes Back 1980
    Family Guy
    Superman: The Animated Series
    Star Wars: The Clone Wars Series
    Star Wars: Jedi Fallen Order (Game)
    Star Trek Original Series
    Aliens 1986
    The Terminator 1984
    Terminator 2 1991
    Warhammer 40k: Space Marine
    Astartes Project By Syama Pedersen
    Predator 1987
    Men in Black 2019

ความคิดเห็น • 173

  • @normalplayer7377
    @normalplayer7377 2 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Reupload?

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  2 ปีที่แล้ว +102

      I took a lot of heat from the nerds, and I'm a nerd I get it, for not properly addressing that phasers and Star Wars blasters are not true lasers - so I had to acknowledged that or hear about it for the rest of my TH-cam life.

    • @callsigntonks4029
      @callsigntonks4029 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      So that's why

    • @thatgermanicguy
      @thatgermanicguy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@JohnnyJohnsonEsq what happened to the original video?

    • @normalplayer7377
      @normalplayer7377 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Understandable

    • @JohnnysWarStories
      @JohnnysWarStories 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@thatgermanicguy I just made it private. She gone.

  • @colinbarron4
    @colinbarron4 2 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    Great video. A few points. The first realistic cinematic depiction of a laser beam was in the James Bond movie 'Goldfinger' (1964) although lasers of that period could not cut through steel .Later oxy-lasers could. The guns in 'Aliens' (1986) were also created using existing firearms with bits stuck on e.g. the Pulse Rifle was built around a Thompson SMG. 'Starship Troopers' (1997) also used weapons built around comtemporary firearms. There are rumours that - during the Falklands War - HMS Broadsword carried an experimental laser system which could dazzle enemy pilots.

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Great to have all this excellent info added. I honestly could go on forever in these videos but I have to be able to finish them on time. So these comments are super helpful in filling the gaps.

    • @Z1gguratVert1go
      @Z1gguratVert1go ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It makes sense to build scifi weapons around real world weapons that have already stood the test of time. They're heavier, and look and "feel" more real on screen and also take into account ergonomic considerations because essentially they are real. Or were real anyway.
      Star Trek phasers, even phaser rifles, look and feel too plastic, too light weight. They even clatter like plastic when they hit the ground. One can argue there are in-universe reasons for this, such as why make phasers any heavier than they need to be? Since there is no "barrel pressure" to worry about why not make the whole thing out of polymers? They still just look and feel a bit cheap, but TV often lacks the budget of movies and at least no one can look at Kirk's type II phaser and say, "well that's just a luger with some bits added," they genuinely look new and different.
      I'd still like to see beam weapons that behave as they should. Elite Dangerous's laser weapons get it right, by coming "on" instantly and continuously and then vanishing just as instantly. At least someone got it right.

    • @Musabre
      @Musabre ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Z1gguratVert1go Agreed, Elite's pulse lasers are really immersive, and offer a stark contrast to the ballistic and missile alternatives in the game.

    • @mbr5742
      @mbr5742 ปีที่แล้ว

      From this scene the M41 sounds like firing 10mm projectiles
      th-cam.com/video/qo7oW0DH4kY/w-d-xo.html
      and not a laser beam.

    • @mbr5742
      @mbr5742 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Z1gguratVert1go And a certain Major did not like the Federation Phaser rifle all that much
      th-cam.com/video/q8aYkrVrhgA/w-d-xo.html

  • @DrownedInExile
    @DrownedInExile ปีที่แล้ว +23

    I once wrote a story featuring a laser carbine-style weapon system. In form and function it resembled a traditional Italian combat shotgun. Instead of shells, its ammunition was an expendable battery+futuristic capacitor, combined into a single capsule. Thanks to the capacitor, the laser could deploy lethal force instantly. The downside was the capsules would become extremely hot after firing, and would need to be cycled quickly. The weapon also had to be made of heat-resistant ceramics and titanium, making it more comparable in weight to an LMG. Though superior to most conventional firearms, it was derided in my setting for having many drawbacks. It excelled in space combat, but not so much on-planet.
    I portrayed the laser as having an invisible discharge, but also producing a terrible seething roar when fired in pressurized areas, thanks to the capsule burning out after every shot. In retrospect, that seems over-played for drama. One mistake I made, if this weapon was designed for use in space, it should have visible radiators for heat dissipation. I didn't know space radiators were a thing back then.

  • @chalion8399
    @chalion8399 2 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Lasers can be used to react to different colors so it only can "erase" one color and ignore the rest, through glass on the back of phones, for example.

  • @ThommyofThenn
    @ThommyofThenn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    So great to see Dick Miller's scene in Terminator. It's such an offbeat, comical scene but dark enough it keeps in tone with the rest of the movie. Terminator is one of my favorite 80s sci fi films

  • @korbell1089
    @korbell1089 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    When it comes to hand held laser weapons I think of it this way, back in the 70s we had a brick of a cell phone that could talk for 30 minutes on a 10 hour recharge and it was pretty much limited to NYC. Now look at what we have! So if it is possible at all to do then man will do it.
    Also reminded that back in about 1900 a man quit his job at the patent office and the reason he gave was that everything that could be invented had!

  • @geordiedog1749
    @geordiedog1749 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I was having a minor eye operation yesterday and I was thinking about laser weapons - as you do - and I thought about the wounds they’d cause. Burns obviously but mainly it would be damage to vision. In a laser war there would be many many people blinded by the lasers. Nasty.

  • @Clipgatherer
    @Clipgatherer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Although I’m not a prophet, I predict that conventional, gunpowder-powered firearms will be around for quite some time yet. They have, after all, been around for 700 years.

  • @amanawolf9166
    @amanawolf9166 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Surprised you didn't mention Fallout and the Plasma/Laser based weapons.
    Anyways, Styropyro does a great job on lasers with a few other youtubers touching on the subject. Laser tech has evolved quite a bit since the early days. Even now, things are starting to ramp up for the IR and UV lasers. Also, I do agree that MWO does a good job with Lasers where you have pulse vs. regular lasers, having to do heat management as one of the core principles of the game. You can strap on a tone of lasers to the heavy/assault guys, but you'll overheat yourself pretty damn quick.
    I'd say that next to Genetics, lasers are probably one of my top things to study in terms of Science. Laser Rust removal, tattoo removal, surgery, precision metal cutting, it's all quite interesting.

    • @2Potates
      @2Potates 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Supposedly Raytheon's latest laser weapon system has a efficiency rating of up to 70% so not nearly as much heat build-up as the older ones.

  • @jacoblush
    @jacoblush 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    can i have a shout out

    • @eamonnclabby7067
      @eamonnclabby7067 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hallo Jacob...peace and love from Merseyside....

  • @felixsomething1495
    @felixsomething1495 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    can we get FN FAL - In The Movies?

    • @michaelandreipalon359
      @michaelandreipalon359 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Or the P90 (Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty, Counter-Strike, Gunslinger Girl) for that matter.

  • @RX552VBK
    @RX552VBK 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    JJ, thanks for adding Robot Jox, Flash Gordon (‘80) and the orbital battle scene in Moonraker (great SFX by the late Derek Meddings) to this vid on Laser/Plasma, Particle weaponry. It was fun!

  • @SchrödingerKousae
    @SchrödingerKousae 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This was a very straight-forward and informative video! Well done and thank you! Even touched on a lot of the topics I'd hoped you would.

  • @mistypig
    @mistypig 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I like that you included Macross in here

    • @michaelandreipalon359
      @michaelandreipalon359 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A bit ironic, considering the franchise is more known for the Macross Missile Massacre and Itano Circus, which focus on, well, guided missiles and the spamming of them.
      Edit: Shame it appears to be the wonky Robotech release though.

  • @michaellepp5445
    @michaellepp5445 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I don't care if it isn't real, I would still want a light saber !!! Thanks for the video !! I love Warhammer 40K Space Marine!!

  • @poppop-oj6by
    @poppop-oj6by 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I really like the inclusion of positive uses for lasers at the end of the video. Although weapons are full of interesting technology, they are still tools for death and destruction. It feels great to end on a positive like progress in the medical field.

  • @christophersnyder1532
    @christophersnyder1532 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What about the Daleks, and Cybermen? Uchuu Senkan Yamato, was a great weapon also.
    Sorry if I was one of the contributors that made you change the video.
    Take care, and all the best.

    • @JohnnysWarStories
      @JohnnysWarStories 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      No not at all! I always appreciate your comments. I could definitely do some Doctor Who themed stuff in the future. I'm a fan.

    • @dragonfell5078
      @dragonfell5078 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I believe Daleks use a Neutronic blaster or something. Apparently it's powerful enough to reduce buildings to rubble, but the Daleks intentionally underpower it so it doesn't kill humans instantly, but rather burns their nervous system from the inside out, causing immense pain. It can also non-lethally incapacitate or permanently cripple someone.

    • @TrustyworthyWorm
      @TrustyworthyWorm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dragonfell5078 Indeed. In Remembrance of the Daleks the Doctor says that the weapon fired by Daleks scrambles the inside of the body of those it hits. Special weapons Dalek has an explosive effect when firing. Some also have flamethrowers. On one occasion they use bullets when their regular weapons stop working, the black and silver daleks featured once in the 70s. The plungers can also strangle enemies, with many more non-combat uses. Not sure about the ships or larger flying vehicles, likely just lasers, plasma, something else or just scaled up versions of regular dalek weapons, not sure how that would work on a larger scale though.

    • @eamonnclabby7067
      @eamonnclabby7067 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I still dive behind the sofa at the mere mention of the Daleks...scary...especially the cocky knee accents

    • @TrustyworthyWorm
      @TrustyworthyWorm 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@eamonnclabby7067 If that scares you then definitely never watch the X-Files. Scariest TV show ever made. I only got into it as an adult and I greatly enjoy it.

  • @ebee-uz1oz
    @ebee-uz1oz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Justice League unlimited mentioned two episodes with an Ion cannon, one, to make a manmade canyon between a city and a crap load of replicating bots, the other, when Luther/***spoiler used it on Cadmus, making it look like the JLU did it.

  • @billykorando6820
    @billykorando6820 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Lol, the call out to RoboJox. My absolute favorite movie when I was kid, that I refuse to watch again for fear it will ruin a pristine childhood memory 😅

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I know exactly what you mean but rewatching the fight scenes is good fun

    • @eamonnclabby7067
      @eamonnclabby7067 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JohnnyJohnsonEsq for the utter destruction of childhood memories...Rude Guy...hilarious..

  • @hansmerker5611
    @hansmerker5611 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dr Evil: fire the laser!

  • @Autobotmatt428
    @Autobotmatt428 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    God I love The Clone Wars great show recommend it 100% 5:46

  • @matthewskudzienski888
    @matthewskudzienski888 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Flash Gordan
    Terminator(1-6)
    Star Wars(1-9)
    Star Trek
    Robotech
    Gundam
    Akira(1988)
    Moonraker(1978)
    Iron man(1-3)

  • @gypsydildopunks7083
    @gypsydildopunks7083 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You're the best, Johnny

  • @hglasier
    @hglasier 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The best portrayal of a laser in a movie that I know of is Reel Genius (1985).

    • @miamijules2149
      @miamijules2149 หลายเดือนก่อน

      100%! Along with the use of frozen nitrogen to make coins for the vending machine…. best portrayal of a vending machine by far. Lol

  • @rolfagten857
    @rolfagten857 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fun video, for sure!
    It's a shame that the Nazis in Iron Sky part 1 don't have lasers. But the laser in a WW2 movie would be a fun idea. I'm about to call QT to present this idea for his "Inglourious Basterds" prequel.

    • @mbr5742
      @mbr5742 ปีที่แล้ว

      Otoh it fits the "we are backward" theme that we see (ie no transistors) since LASER is a post WW2 development

  • @killzoneisa
    @killzoneisa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Thank for reminding me i need to get a copy of Flash Gordon.

    • @eamonnclabby7067
      @eamonnclabby7067 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A camp classic....in the finest pantomime tradition....

    • @michaelandreipalon359
      @michaelandreipalon359 ปีที่แล้ว

      I kinda hate it nowadays, what with the numerous cringy love letter moments based on it when it comes to certain recent Star Wars works like The Book of Boba Fett.

  • @Kruppt808
    @Kruppt808 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”
    Archy

  • @goodwinter6017
    @goodwinter6017 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Take note into where the idea of star wars weapon laser came from, flak tracer rounds from ww2 machine guns, fury movie, the thick tracers you see is accurate.

  • @ptonpc
    @ptonpc 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A novel I read fairly recently had the 'explanation' for why lasers are visible and make sound in space is the ships' computers fill in those details for the benefit of the crew, making it easier for meat bags to visualise what is going on.

  • @Henchgirl7342
    @Henchgirl7342 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I think a really cool idea would be engery weapons viewed through the eyes of a non-military, non-police person.
    Like, you're just someone causally carrying a plasma pistol under your shirt and you watch hours of youtube videos about what your particular plasma pistol is practically capable of

  • @scaredchalk
    @scaredchalk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I don’t recognize the clone wars clip from 5:50

  • @martinidry6300
    @martinidry6300 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Very enlightening Johnny and unexpected.

  • @nursestoyland
    @nursestoyland 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I’m glad you included Starship Troopers :)

  • @todddavis2041
    @todddavis2041 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    What about using a resource mined from the ground. Energon for example. Energon powered pistols, rifles and cannons are a staple in Transformers. Energon has to be refined before being used, as in its raw state its highly explosive. Also can be unstable in very high quantities.

  • @edwardvincentbriones5062
    @edwardvincentbriones5062 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I like to mention that The Green Hornet TV series has a laser weapon at the start of Episode 9. The effects are cheap but at least its worth mentioning, and Black Beauty car that the main characters rode is my favorite movie car of all time.

  • @Darkclaw86
    @Darkclaw86 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I don't think that laser would become a primary military weapon in any prospective age, besides from specialized usage, as those you mentioned. Too much stuff or problems shrinks it's effectiveness and usable space, as those you mentioned at atmospheric areas, steam, clouds, fogs, dust, any particle disturbs the ray, also in the space you have dust and interstellar particles.
    Also overheating is a big problem in a vacuum, because the definition of vacuum is the lack of (enough) matter and no matter is no 'transporting' of heat into the environment.
    The next think is, with the right material to using as a ship's or staion's surface, you can absorb or reflect most (or all) of the laser's energy, what makes it complete useless as a primary weapon.
    And because of the physical nature of laser, those problems where always be problems, independently of the technological advance, in the real life we must deal with real physics and don't have those magical gadgets and pseudophysics as in those scifantasy flicks.

  • @michaelandreipalon359
    @michaelandreipalon359 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Even if they'll somehow become another revolutionary example in real life warfare (let's face it, UN-delagated rules on war will eventually stop catching on just because), we'll still stay nostalgic to what fiction like Star Wars will call "slugthrowers". Oh, and the fictional side of things, magitek enhancements.
    'Course, beam cannons sure appeal to me, particularly the kind shown in some animated works and in games like the FreeSpace duology. Also tactical laser satellites, as we've seen here with Invincible and AKIRA footage (though a little bit of Tiberium universe Command and Conquer games and Justice League Unlimited would have helped).
    5:35: If you think this is over the top, wait till you see Kyle "Forcedamned" Katarn neatly shaving his beard with his very own lightsaber in Star Wars: Jedi Knight II - Jedi Outcast.
    6:03: Nice to see what appear to be Star Wars Legends sourcebooks.
    On a sidenote, a damn shame the Astartes fanfilm is now besmirched by bloody GW.

  • @mauldalorian4725
    @mauldalorian4725 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The M41A Pulse Rifle doesn't fire lasers or plasma. It fires a 10mm caseless explosive tipped armor piercing round, with the under barrel being a grenade launcher. So I'm curious as to why clips from Aliens is in here. Hudson does make reference to other weapons like the Independently targeting particle beam phalanx and the phase plasma Pulse Rifles which was originally a descriptions of the pulse rifles being used to cut through part of the tunnel vents in an earlier draft of the script. But when Ripley asks Gorman what the Pulse Rifle fires he tells her that it's a 10mm caseless explosive tipped armor piercing round.

  • @FlyWithMe_666
    @FlyWithMe_666 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    2:20 randomly aiming the secret weapon at the guys during their lunchbreak 😂

  • @gallendugall8913
    @gallendugall8913 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Most film and tv "rayguns" are almost always particle weapons.
    Also that should be "movie" and not "move" in your description.

  • @silverwolf5643
    @silverwolf5643 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I like to think that until we discover a new element to concentrate laser into a strong and deadly energy without compromise handheld carry, we still got a long way to go ish…
    Tho Kinetic rod falling from space still scary

  • @2Potates
    @2Potates หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    With how lasers have been developing over the last few years i can honestly now see a future where soldiers could be carrying laser weapons.

  • @MilitaryFusion
    @MilitaryFusion 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Who new from a hundred years ago that we would have the ability to use mobile computers with screens on them. Just to could complain on FB? 😄 🤣

  • @backcountry164
    @backcountry164 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just denting armor in key locations with a hammer can handicap or even disable someone.

  • @fredlandry6170
    @fredlandry6170 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I love Battletech the history and technology of it is really cool. Still waiting for a F-14 Tomcat video. 🙏

  • @Nilithic
    @Nilithic 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When someone says Laser guns then I'm thinking Fallout universe

  • @awesomehpt8938
    @awesomehpt8938 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Imma firin mah Lazooor!!!

  • @joelrankine1981
    @joelrankine1981 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Excellent as always mate!! 👏👏👏

  • @loganoldon8924
    @loganoldon8924 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cheack sweedish thermal conduction rays

  • @GraemeGunn
    @GraemeGunn ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "I can't be blind, Jerry, the blind are courageous."
    LMAO what a good line

  • @kevinmaiuri6418
    @kevinmaiuri6418 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When I expressed how cool it'd be to have a light saber like those portrayed in Star Wars, my dad shut me down really quickly and pretty negatively by saying it wouldn't be possible in real life, not only because he doesn't think the tech required to create such a weapon is even possible to make it a reality, but he said that it'd be impossible to control. His response was literally, "It'll never happen because you'd end up cutting your own arm off." Of course he seems to enjoy being kind of a killjoy whenever I speculate on things that are highly improbable but not completely impossible. He thinks we will never achieve a level of spacefaring that is depicted in scifi like Star Wars, Mass Effect, etc. He stated, and I quote, "Space flight on the level you are talking about will never happen because there's absolutely nothing out there that we'd be interested in, we'll never have tech to make it possible because its just not possible to create tech that would work at all, let alone efficiently enough to make that a reality." He went on to say that if there were other races of life out there, that it would only end up as a real life "War of the Worlds". That last bit could be a risk, but my counter for that is simply that while a conflict with another race could be a real threat to consider, it's not wise to make it sound like it would be inevitable. History has proven that while it did not last, man has successfully interacted with others discovered while exploring a new area peacefully. Granted the others discovered where other humans that had been living in the newly discovered area for a very long time, as opposed to another race of beings entirely, but that seems to be a minor technicality. While I do agree with him that it's pretty much not likely it'll happen anytime soon, and certainly not in my lifetime, I don't think one should rule the plausible but unlikely out completely. I mean it was not so long ago that people thought flight was impossible, and now we have an entire industry devoted to flying people all over the world on a regular basis. I also did some very basic research, and last time I looked NASA was already implementing a long-term project aimed at sending a manned craft to Mars with long-term goals of looking into colonizing the planet. I believe NASA called it Project Artemis. It's been quite awhile though since I looked it up so maybe it got scrapped, I don't know. I'm also not at all an expert on any of this.

    • @miamijules2149
      @miamijules2149 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I think your dad is woefully naive to what is already possible and through no fault of his own, incredibly nearsighted. He is basing his opinion on last century’s physics…. trust and believe…. we’ve moved well passed a unified theory and they’re doing things in labs you could not imagine, literally.

  • @ifv2089
    @ifv2089 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mega cool 😎

  • @andrewmontgomery5621
    @andrewmontgomery5621 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Dr Evil:"A giant "laser" on the moon."

  • @jackstecker5796
    @jackstecker5796 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Knew a guy who lost an eye to a PEQ-15 that was bootleg and had the safety removed from the high power setting. There was a slight *pop*, and bye-bye eyesight.
    I don't remember off the top of my head, but I think military weapon mounted lasers run about 50mW in the high setting. Basically to direct aircraft, whose pilots are wearing night vision gear. The laser pointer you can get at a gas station will typically run about 0.2-0.3mW.
    It's also interesting to note that anything over, I think, 0.7mW, or thereabouts, is actually regulated by the Food & Drug Administration, as well as by the State Department under the International Trade In Arms Regulations.
    Technically, my understanding is, if I even show the manual to a non-US citizen that's a felony.

    • @jack4927
      @jack4927 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Because of export restrictions?

    • @jackstecker5796
      @jackstecker5796 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @jack4927 Yup. I might be mistaken, but those aren't dice I'm willing to roll.

    • @jack4927
      @jack4927 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jackstecker5796 probably I know it's true of some gear can't remember what it was though NODS I think

  • @843SouthernPride
    @843SouthernPride 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Am I dreaming or is this second time this video has been uploaded? I can only imagine TH-cam yoinking the first one down for some reason.

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I did this voluntarily. I got some geek heat for not properly acknowledging phasers and blasters but that's fair.

    • @eamonnclabby7067
      @eamonnclabby7067 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JohnnyJohnsonEsq yes people get very attached to such items....

  • @danielw8714
    @danielw8714 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If styropro was in this video that would have been the cherry on top

  • @LazyLifeIFreak
    @LazyLifeIFreak 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Biggest problem with lasers in space is heat, the heat has nowhere to go so the laser might just end up cooking the ship. Of course such trivialities tend to be handwaved away for the sake of spectacle and convenience.

    • @mbr5742
      @mbr5742 ปีที่แล้ว

      Spaceships have a thermal/kinetic sink that transfers such stuff into another universe. Only problem is that the energy is not destroyed so occasionally an alien is quick-fried on the "ceramic throne" or gets slammed into his TV set at 6g without any visible reason

  • @sabillahrahma-kun4898
    @sabillahrahma-kun4898 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love how you put robotech series as my favourite anime 😍😍

  • @Casedilla73
    @Casedilla73 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Really enjoyed this, I’d like to see more sci fi topics, if you’re willing

  • @GraemeGunn
    @GraemeGunn ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can't believe you used Robot Jox as an example! I thought I was the only one who knew about that movie lol

  • @patriotenfield3276
    @patriotenfield3276 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Congo (1995)?

  • @callsigntonks4029
    @callsigntonks4029 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Ayy first and good job for taking critique and not ignoring it

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My Hawkmen demanded a reupload on this one

    • @eamonnclabby7067
      @eamonnclabby7067 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Brian Blessed s finest ( very camp...) hour ...I remember him in Z cars a fictional Liverpool cop show....

  • @jtsg464
    @jtsg464 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Enjoyed the vid but you missed the perfect scene to show off laser weapon, the cool bit in Congo when Laura Linney uses a laser to slice up killer apes.

  • @TheBladeGuy522
    @TheBladeGuy522 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At first, i read it as "Last Weapons".

  • @Kolonol1
    @Kolonol1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh hell yes!!! You used scenes from the best cartoon/anime ever....Robotech!!!!

    • @whater39
      @whater39 ปีที่แล้ว

      I'm a big Robotech fan, but it's NOT the best cartoon/anime ever. Go rewatch it and it doesn't hold up. Sadly Harmony Gold has sat on the IP for it, so no new content.

    • @Kolonol1
      @Kolonol1 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@whater39 I disagree with you 500%

    • @whater39
      @whater39 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Kolonol1 They kept on using the same footage of battle again and again. I could say the same for Minmay's songs, always on repeat.

    • @michaelandreipalon359
      @michaelandreipalon359 ปีที่แล้ว

      The original Macross and its sequels (minus II and Delta) are still better. Not a fan of these bowlderizations.

    • @Kolonol1
      @Kolonol1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@whater39 yes they did....but find a cartoon that didn't do that from that time period...

  • @franktower9006
    @franktower9006 ปีที่แล้ว

    One reason why I really liked Aliens was the use of believable, cool projectile weapons,instead of energy weapons. They've been called pulse rifles but fired 10mm rounds and rifle grenades. I don't think Aliens fits the subject of this video.

  • @lawrenceschuman5354
    @lawrenceschuman5354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My dude, the guns in Aliens are, well, guns. Both actually and in universe. When Ripley asks Gorman what the pulse rifles fire, he says, "10mm explosive tipped caseless. Standard light armor piercing round."

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      They fire a caseless ammo propelled by plasma.

    • @lawrenceschuman5354
      @lawrenceschuman5354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Citation? Asking because I am a big fan and I'm curious.

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@lawrenceschuman5354 watch the drop ship scene he actually refers to the rifle as a plasma rifle. Caseless means no propellant aka gunpowder meaning it is being fired using plasma.

    • @lawrenceschuman5354
      @lawrenceschuman5354 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JohnnyJohnsonEsq I remember the line about plasma rifles is in the novelization of the screenplay, but I don't recall offhand if it was in the theatrical release or director's cut. And caseless gunpowder guns are a thing. The H&K G-11 prototype fires a 4.73x33mm caseless bullet. The West German army passed on adopting it. But word of it had entered the nerdosphere in the 1980s. It's available in the tabletop RPG Twilight 2000, for example. And it looks like a more boring version of the pulse rifle. Kind of like a Glock is a more boring version of... everything else. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckler_%26_Koch_G11

  • @RuiWang-zm2ue
    @RuiWang-zm2ue ปีที่แล้ว

    Lasers sound cool on paper but if you think about it, it's an attempt to use concentrated radiation to induce heat damage. This leads to 2 problems, the first being that most armour used by modern military equipment would require an absurd amount of energy to burn through. Then there's the issue of the inverse square law which diminishes the concentration of radiation energy the further it travels. This makes high powered lasers mostly effective as short range weapons. However, when engaging a close range target, most preexisting weapons are probably far more efficient than lasers.

  • @reynaldoandannieangnged6434
    @reynaldoandannieangnged6434 ปีที่แล้ว

    If it weren't for those pesky lawmakers and ethics People, the active denial system could've saved lives in places like Afghanistan, stop riots from going south- you get what I mean.

  • @mbr5742
    @mbr5742 ปีที่แล้ว

    I still love the approach the ole Traveller TT RPG takes. Sure, they have laser pistols. But even a very high tech one still is more cumbersome and does less weapons than...
    th-cam.com/video/8Xjr2hnOHiM/w-d-xo.html

  • @aldrichcruz9321
    @aldrichcruz9321 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    “Dozers build more Reactors! Lasers a lot of Power”
    =Townes=

  • @Kolonol1
    @Kolonol1 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Uh no the star wars ones are colored because they are powered by Tibanna gas...something we do not possess...and that's the thing everyone gets wrong....and now Disney got it wrong too....a Lightsaber is a laser sword with several favored lasers that terminate each other at a focal point....the tip....the rounded tip is an optical illusion. But again, we do not have Ilum Krystal's or force crystals (I don't go by the whole Disney Kyber crystal bs) so we can't build them.

  • @hungryhedgehog4201
    @hungryhedgehog4201 ปีที่แล้ว

    I recommend the backyard scientist who build a truck mounted laser turret in his garage. And contrary to popular belief, a simple mirror will not protect you from a powerfull enough laser.
    Also the star war project was batshit insane, it has as much basis in reallity as the star wars movies but burned much more tax payer money, but hey maybe all of that will trickle down to common american again ey?

  • @ideadlift20kg83
    @ideadlift20kg83 ปีที่แล้ว

    Laser weapons in space combat is the dumbest weapon. With kinetic you theoretically have infinite range. Lasers will spread and fade.

  • @djb_gaming1633
    @djb_gaming1633 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Tiger 1 in movie please

  • @sonwig5186
    @sonwig5186 ปีที่แล้ว

    I don't think plasma weapons are possible unless its like a personal plasma knife or something. Lasers on the other hand will probably be used in space extensively and much less on planets with a lot of atmosphere.

  • @BAKER_SWEETS
    @BAKER_SWEETS 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I believe star wars blasters are supposed to be plasma. Turbolasers are called such in universe because they use an internal laser to heat up the gas into plasma

  • @Riceball01
    @Riceball01 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's funny, this video is about laser/energy weapons and JJ keeps on showing clips from Aliens and the pulse rifle, which, despite its name, is not a laser/energy weaon.

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But it's a plasma weapon, which is an energy weapon. It's been a while since I made this video, but I think I explicitly explain that weapon.

    • @Riceball01
      @Riceball01 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JohnnyJohnsonEsq No. pulse rifles were not energy weapons, they were kinetic and not all that different from present day guns. It's explained in the movie that the pulse rifle fires a 10mm careless, light armor piercing, high explosive round and has a 30mm over-under grenade launcher, So not a plasma weapon and neither is the smart gun, although it's never specifically stated what kind of round it fires.
      I think that there might be a reference to some kind of energy weapon that the Colonial Marines use, I think it's in the deleted scene where Hudson is bragging in the dropship about his squad and the weapons available to them. But they never show any energy weapons, unless you consider a flamethrower an energy weapon.

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  ปีที่แล้ว

      'Check it out we got phase plasma pulse rifles' is the direct qoute. A plasma rifle fires a projectile using electricity, not gunpowder. It's an energy weapon.

    • @Riceball01
      @Riceball01 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JohnnyJohnsonEsq During the scene when the Marines go deeper into the complex, Ripley asks Gorman what the pulse rifles fire and he replies, 10mm explosive tip careless, standard light armor piercing. That sure sounds like a firearm to me.

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  ปีที่แล้ว

      Not careless but caseless. It's caseless because it has no gunpowder. It uses plasma energy to propel the 10mm caseless projectile. To be honest I didn't explain it well in the video. I was trying to highlight it as a sort of hybrid energy weapon of sorts. Uses electricity to create plasma and propel a physical caseless bullet.

  • @danielcurtis1434
    @danielcurtis1434 ปีที่แล้ว

    If they get lasers we get mirrors!!! Not a huge problem!!!

  • @stevenkimdmd
    @stevenkimdmd ปีที่แล้ว

    Lasers are stupid. It gives away your position.

  • @StarsAndSnipes344
    @StarsAndSnipes344 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Pew pew pew

  • @dantewilliams2757
    @dantewilliams2757 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    0/10 video fallout not shown

  • @thehaloofthesun
    @thehaloofthesun 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    5:16 what episode is this?

    • @thehaloofthesun
      @thehaloofthesun 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I found it. The episode is 1x09 ‘What Are Little Girls Made Of?’.

  • @arthurbrax6561
    @arthurbrax6561 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    gundam had great beam weapons.

  • @drakke125Channel
    @drakke125Channel ปีที่แล้ว

    stah-ols instead of stye-uls (style)
    trah-ols instead of trai-uls.... (trial)
    sry I get distracted by the weirdest stuff in videos, esp how people talk.

  • @chrisanderson2487
    @chrisanderson2487 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Half the weapons shown were not lasers

  • @georgestefanou4250
    @georgestefanou4250 ปีที่แล้ว

    What about plasma weapons????

  • @2Potates
    @2Potates 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You lost me at then end when you said plasma weapons would be more practical. If we're talking wakefield plasma lasers which are actually particle accelerators then yes but the classic bolts of plasma wouldn't work.

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Sorry I was referring to the Plasma railgun concept as described in the "Aliens" weapon.

    • @2Potates
      @2Potates 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@JohnnyJohnsonEsq Not sure if that would work that much better tbh. Best you can try is make it a plasma beam but then you have a worse particle beam. Plasma weapons are very difficult to get working in general.

  • @eamonnclabby7067
    @eamonnclabby7067 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Another excellent choice......maybe check out Rude Guy TH-cam for rather rude but very funny re dubbing of Science fiction movies and Gerry Anderson clips...no spoilers from Clabby Towers

  • @juanmilano224
    @juanmilano224 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:24 come again?

  • @jacklarkson4505
    @jacklarkson4505 ปีที่แล้ว

    Laser and plasma projectile are not the same thing...although Laser weapons are a real thing and there been experimented in past 40 years...no plasma weapon ever been made.
    in case you dont know plasma is 4th state of matter...when you heat up gas to a 6000 celsius or more,gas become plasma ...just like what happening inside the sun every sec.
    weapons in star wars are both laser and plasma weapons so i understand why its confusing for you.
    only similar thing they have is they both operate with high temperature and can badly burn if get contact with a human skin.
    also there was a movie called spectral-2016 which the ending scene was about plasma weapons if u didnt watch that yet.

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  ปีที่แล้ว

      I feel like we are on the same page my friend. I feel like maybe you didn't get the end of this video :)

    • @jacklarkson4505
      @jacklarkson4505 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@JohnnyJohnsonEsq yes i notice you explaining it...very well but i post my comment before watch this video and notice some people said there was a another video before this.

    • @JohnnyJohnsonEsq
      @JohnnyJohnsonEsq  ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jacklarkson4505 I gotcha! Well I appreciate the post because it helps to add clarity. :)

    • @jacklarkson4505
      @jacklarkson4505 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@JohnnyJohnsonEsq of course man...its a shame you dont have more followers with these amazing informative videos.

  • @mxdwnfrcemdia
    @mxdwnfrcemdia ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Enemy Ship: (Fires anti ship missile)
    U.S. Ship: (Fucking beams it out of existence)
    Enemy Ship: "Oh come on they're using Aimbot!!!"

  • @lancerolen9414
    @lancerolen9414 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dear Johnny Johnson and anyone reading i hope all is well. I just want to say that Jesus Christ loves and cares for you. If you haven't done so please accept Him as your savior and Lord. And remember to enjoy and cherish all that is good and right in life for we only get one life and we don't know what tomorrow will bring.

  • @scarletcrusader5431
    @scarletcrusader5431 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice use of Robotech clips!