Laser test

[yasteveniscoolio]

boner...

[jussipejulliano]

what was the time rate in this video?

[Salifification]

Super weapon Lazer

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[depechemark]

WOW, that LASERs gonna kick ass.

If our enemy make thier attack craft out of PLEXIGLASS.........provided they sit still for us. LOL

[rabies79]

@depechemark

well, this is just the start, first we had shitty cars and now we got awezome cars, same whit this first shit lasers and soon we have a death star :P

[dyrsten]

Plexiglass is often used in the production industry when servicing cnc lasers, standard test and standard machines.

[cr9527]

how many watts is this? and what metal was it?

[Cervator]

u think its glass...

[cr9527]

glass? the description states its a metal...

I was just wondering anyhow

[Lamnont]

It looks like steel to me.

[matthewmcdill]

It's PLEXIGLASS

[flynnt77]

Burn baby! If you want to see something that will really mess with your head, check out a waterjet. Look for "5 axis waterjet" and see what 60k PSI of water can do :)

[gilo1223]

yeah its fascinating to see compressed water tearing through solid steel

[volcanical1]

that is a powerful laser! what type and how much money was it?

[2007castla]

A free electron laser and proberly several million.

[volcanical1]

that is a powerful laser! what type and how much money was it?

[stellartech]

Done it , been there... its Plexiglas. This is a wonderful visualization of both the emittancy of Plexi and the gaussian shape of the beam, in K-vector closure. The reason it burst into 'flame' is, the beam finally exited!, allowing oxygen to rush in the back. Plexiglas burns! At first though, the escaping expanding gases don't allow oxygen to enter. Enjoy this, it's cool!

[tyler9350]

corny

[exusemeprincess]

well some ones exeited =/

[michaeljw10]

Thats plastic if it were glass it wouldnt be on fire for that long after he stoped shinning the laser

[gtardood]

thats ballistic gell!

[michaeljw10]

ballistic gel isnt flamable it wouldnt be on fire after he stoped fireing the laser

[XcaptainXobliviousX]

um, it doesn't actually catch fire until it hits a line behind the glass. maybe, fer some unexplained reason, there happened to be a flammable gas on the other side? as a fun and effective way to know how long the cutting take, er somthin ^^ and it would explain the continuous burn and the burn delay.

[michaeljw10]

ya thats what i was courious about but im 100% sure thats not ballistic gel

[michaeljw10]

Ah Ha After painfully searching around i found in the discription that he said it was metal. i dont know how it was on fire but now that i really look at it it may be metal of some sort

[XcaptainXobliviousX]

that makes perfect sense, except for the fact that you can see thrugh it .-. vid descriptions are not always accurate

[JDBW]

WOW

[videofreakguy]

glass?

[palmtree19oncp]

i dont get it

[DrLsw]

is that a piece of metal!!!

[aarongzmn]

Dude come on. Its either glass or plastic. You wouldn't be able to see through it if it was metal right?

[DrLsw]

duhh lol.

i feel like an idiot now haha

[phazonxl]

and also note, if it was metal, it would be sparking all over the place.

[mrandersonniga]

@aarongzmn its plastic most likely, would glass put off a flame when it gets some air like that??

[WhoCantLove]

ive seen resident evil.

[whiterosey12]

cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!

[betterthanurbutt]

SHOOP DA WHOOP! :O

[transmissionman]

could you imagine firing that thing into a disco mirror ball? LMAO, anyone else seen resident evil?!

[pitbike2006]

yea lol the green laser thing cuts them up lol have u seen the new one

[transmissionman]

Yh lol. Cool bit of kit.

[therockeronner]

remember kids, when playing with this toy do not shine in your eyes! it might burn them!

[221532008]

will burn them*

[therockeronner]

yeah i would place bets that a laser that can burn through 6 inches of glass just might do something to your eyes

[jonnyrockit]

After my thinking and calculating. Yes, it is possible!

[92naz32]

Hmmm, I'm not so certain. According to my testing contact lenses can reflect the laser back at the weapon thus destroying the laser & user yet saving the eye it was aimed at.

[zombat]

So... any vids showing the laser being used on something like Pork?

[lewisdream]

lol

[lookn4thepowpow]

Was that glass or acrylic of some kind?

[frothychimp]

It is acrylic plexiglas or lexan. I saw a demonstration at the laser lab at wright patterson air force base in ohio. They were testing the resistance of canopy material on aircraft to CO2 lasers. It did the exact same thing except theirs was a bit more powerful. It burned through in less than a second.

[lookn4thepowpow]

aircraft canopy's are not as thick as this test sample I bet

[Sempart]

i agree, looked like glass

[maxglobs]

Watching this, I'm torn between my scientific side, which is at the moment working on several applications to this technology, and my high school boy side, which is wondering what it would look like if this was used on a polar bear.

[VicariousReality7]

What the hell happened?

[jerryaltman]

This looks like glass or plexglass, and not metal.

[InterpolFL]

i think we are more afraid of not having a laser than we are of there being one not because we fell they are useful, but because they are cool

[anim8er2]

The Russians were working on their own Laser weapons way back in the '70s. And so were we.

[boogeyratt]

Be that as it may, they couldn't do anything like this... hence why the development was halted.

[sambarros]

Ahahahaha... Are you kidding me? I have one of these in my GARAGE and I use it to light cigarettes at parties to impress my friends. powerlabs. org Get real dude. Nothing impressive about putting a hole through plastic that's inches away from the beam.

[boogeyratt]

Congrats. Have a cookie. What the hell are you having parties in your garage for? Parents won't let you have it inside?

Anyhow... were this plastic I'm quite certain there would be some sort of melting/bubbling/warping. Since there's none? Likely to be metal. (And if you follow the link to the story, though it doesn't say for certain, you'll see it probably is.) Let's see your little laser do that.

[boogeyratt]

And, for the record, I was referring to in the 70s, not these days. I guess all that genius has lessened your reading comprehension.

[Yawidavi44]

But these weapons couln't be portable and carried

by regular soldiers. They would have to carry a bag full of batteries to power that thing.

[Merhawk102]

Well right now they would have to carry loads of batteries. But they are trying to make energy cells kind of like Star Wars to make the ammunition for a laser weapon almost unlimited.

[AnselmoFanZero]

Its not that hard to make it portable.

There are 10W tubes which doesn't need this much input.

Add a RC battery-pack 12V 5000mAh and gor for it...

Then you need a good lens to make the beam effective for "long range"...

[elijahlucian]

im a communist, and now we have the weapons....

prepare to die.

[Yggdrasill4]

Beautiful

[fatmeteor]

It's called a "laser beam", and has been documented extensively in Bond films. God help us if the communists get a hold of this technology.

[dyyys1]

After all, Bond films are a great place to learn about technology as it exists today. I read the original article, and it is indeed an experimental infrared laser in development for the military.  I believe the substance burned is a type of acrylic.

[BigBananaMan]

Seeing how glass dosent burn away and usually glows bright orange before melting, and ice rarely catches on fire like that. I would have to say the block is acrylic being burned through with an infrared laser. I guess you could call it a "laser gun"  but they usually call it a laser diode.

[Lorsch]

glass, ice? what kinda material?

[Tibi76]

yeah. And what is this?

Laser gun or what?

[sheiky]

cool