I think the secret is right in front of us. In Goldmember, when Scott finally gets Dr. Evil his laser sharks, it demonstrates its power by sticking its head out of the water and blasting an anonymous henchman. As you mentioned, lasers travel a lot more efficiently through air, so a laser weapon makes a lot more sense as a weapon for sharks to attack enemies that are out of their reach, ie out of the water. And this actually fits, since great white sharks are known for their tendency to stick their head out of their water so that they can track the position of seals on the shoreline. They even have specialized eyes that allow them to see just as well in air as in water. Sharks are already deadly enough in the water without lasers, but can't do much to victims that are still on land. A laser would be a dastardly solution to this limitation. Of course, if this is the purpose of the laser, then it probably would make more sense to use a more energy efficient weapon, like a bullet, since bullets don't travel very well in water but quite well in air. Or maybe even a grappling hook so the shark can pull its victim into its reach. I imagine besides the obvious shock factor of using a laser weapon, as well as the chance to use cool future tech, a laser would have one final benefit. It does have limited range in water, but then again, it doesn't need much range. A shark's jaws have a range of 0 and are still pretty dangerous. Instead of using the beam itself as a weapon underwater, the shark could use the laser at short range to disorient and intimidate its victim, and most importantly, using the heating of the water to injure and cook its next meal.
Yes, but if it's a blue/green laser not only can it snipe targets above water it can still hit things under water that are trying to escape its teeth. Shark cages and diver propulsion systems commonly used by secret agents will not protect someone from a laser shark. Add some sort of shark mind control, a laser com system, some low light or light amp cammeras, and a phased array sonar system and one of your higher level minions can control an entire shiver of sharks from within the submarine mobile lair.
This was what I was thinking as well. Another benefit of a laser shark is the ability to easily cool the laser. Lasers can get quite hot, so they often need large heat sinks/cooling systems. A shark could fire at a target above water, then go back down to let the laser cool in the water, then go back up and repeat. This would allow the laser to be lighter, because it wouldn't need as large of a heat sink/cooling system. This way, you could get a more powerful laser for less weight.
You forgot the best part of a L.A.S.E.R, reloading. While bullets might be more efficient in terms of energy, sharks have a distinct lack of thumbs to reload a gun with ammunition thus making a weapon that doesn't need to reload a big bonus. Otherwise I completely agree.
@@deathsheir2035 Correct, but for a regular shark/orca there isn't much difference between sound and light speed (as in it wouldn't speed up the communication process because both happen, relatively to it, instantaneously). Unless you gave the sharks computerlike enhanced brains to process information at such speeds. Which would be even more terrifying
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You could also train the sharks to think of anything the light is shining on as food. Give the laser a targeting system that always shines on the shark food when you feed them but is also programmed to shine on your enemies. The laser might also be programmed to only work when out of the water. So the sharks can get targets dangling over your death trap, and not yet in the water.
Hey Kyle, two things. Sharks could quickly surface to blast unsuspecting heroes off the deck of the super boat, bypassing the beam through water. They could also use the laser cutter to cut holes in the hull of said boat to sink it. Love the show. Manbun 2020
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From a fellow super villain, laser sharks could also be used to destroy ship and submarine propellers or maybe even punch holes into their hulls if the laser in powerful enough.
I think another big problem is that most sharks can't stay still in the water without sufficating. Because they're not able to breath in the normal way, they have to move forward to push water through their gills. Therefore aiming would be really hard and they had to turn away from their target to not ram into it. An alternative would be a cat shark but due to its size it could be hard to fit a laser on it that doesn't makes it sink to the bottom of the ocean.
I always felt that the lasers were damaging for a cool factor, but the actual function came from using light cues to aim *the shark*. if it's trained to go after lit targets, the laser could be used by humans or a targeting computer to steer them at targets. like how a laser pointer plus a cat plus your buddy's groin equals comedy!
3:27 There's a theory I once read that it's because that range of light isn't absorbed by water, that is why our eyes evolved to see in that range. Also, here's a thought, not related to this episode: Commission an artist for art of your ship, the Velociraptor. Any space episodes, take place in it. Say her design is modular so all sorts of technologies can be installed. And make sure it has 2 seats so Because Space episodes can take place there too.
At that point I'd think it'd just be easier to train the sharks to attack whatever the lasers are pointing at, less expensive lasers and with the added bonus of getting rid of incompetent minions.
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Hey Kyle, love the show. In the thor comics by jason aaron there are space sharks that feed on unwary travelers. Putting lazers on these space sharks would be much more effective as they wouldn't be impeded by water
Kyle: if we were supervillains WHICH WE'RE NOT (multiple times) Also Kyle: Sharks with frickin "laser" beams attached to their frickin heads -plus the pinky move...
That offhand comment about lasers being "basically unimpeded" in air is only partially true. The effective power density depends a whole lot on focusing and the further you're going the harder it is to focus properly. The laser sniper rifle and laser bazooka that Styropyro made is a great example of this.
"Laser light". Every time someone says that, I flinch. It's like someone saying NASA national, or FBI bureau. Laser is an acronym, light is part of the acronym, saying laser light is needless repitition, and is probably grammatically incorrect once the acronym is expanded out.
Aspiring biologist here: When you said "Almost no sharks live in fresh water," My mind almost immediately jumped to Bull Sharks. Bull Sharks have been found to live (or at least survive) in saltwater, freshwater and brackish water. Hypothetically, an evil genius (such as yourself) could get their hands on a few Bull Sharks, attach freakin' laserbeams to their freakin' heads and either keep them in water of any salinity, or release them to track down and violently laser their selected targets (provided they live near water)
There is also the problem that no matter what system is used, something sufficiently high powered would also produce a lot of waste heat, which is likely to do as much, if not more damage to the shark using the laser as it is to the target. "Deploy the las-.... What do you mean the boiled themselves during testing?" - Notavillain 2019
My new head cannon is every thing he draws is made with all the same attributes other real-world counterpart but it only works in the void because he has been stuck there for so long and one day he decided to test his power he made a clone machine and then it became a real and head bun man is an evil clone also all henchman are distorted clones.
3:00 telepathic communication thru telemeres 6:50 I should use saltwater and smoke for what I'm feeling in my brain atm 7:00 you working with me puts you in danger. Appreciate that✊🏽
I think laser bees might be more useful, although it would take very good sensors and a.i. Create a stationary laser and sensor array, then equip the bees with tiny mirrors and focusing lenses. If we can zap parasites off of fish it's not to far of a stretch to direct say, a hundred tiny lasers to individual bees. Then they wouldn't need to be all that powerful by themselves, because the swarm could direct so many at a target. And even if dozens of bees are destroyed by your opponent the overall effectiveness of the weapon system would remain viable despite massive losses. (Tiny drones might work better, but genetically engineered bees would be cooler). Just my 2 cents. Oh and I'm not a super villain either, I promise.
Ah but Kyle you have forgotten that bull sharks, a species of shark that can live in fresh water, would be more ideal to be your minion as they are incredibly agresive and will be more likely to attack enemies than the majority of other sharks.
Well the obvious answer is to have your base under a fresh water river in Australia and use the Australian Salt Water Crocodile with laser beams attached to their heads as guards
9:00 Kyle, totally not a supervillain, Hill : Sorry supervillains your laser plan will not work! But, I'm about to hook you up, even though I'm totally not a supervillain.
I feel like you were only looking to the realm of lasers that already exist. The question I have is: How powerful would a laser have to be to be able to vaporize a guy under water from 100 meters, how much energy would such a laser require, and what kind of damage would the same laser be able to do above water?
Hi Kyle, so i was thinking about the implications of lasers to blind other People under water but then i came to think that the sharks could blind themselves if the light randomly reflected by some ramdom object under water and if I remeber correctly, sharks indeed have a great vision making them somewhat useless. I also figured they could shoot lasers at a specific angle at the surface of the water so that the light would deflect and come down again, possibly confusing the enemy or reaching spots they wouldn't otherwise.
I think another problem that wasn't mentioned a while lot is what species of shark are we attaching frickin lasers to? This would no doubt depend on the application of said laser sharks; are they in a tank of some sort (like in the Austin powers movie)? If so, great white sharks are a terrible choice since none have lived in captivity for more than a few weeks. If it were my job to make laser sharks a real thing (sadly it is not) here would be my top recommendations for shark species. 1: Black tip reef shark. Although its not the largest shark it should be large enough for our purposes, can live in captivity, they are far from being endangered, and they prefer shallower water where they have a greater chance of lasering someone. 2: Tiger shark. The tiger shark is a large and strong predator that is a danger even without focused high power headlamps. 3: Bull shark. Not only is it also a large predator it also has the highest testosterone of any animal. Also it's able to swim both in salt and fresh water.
Hi Kyle, I like your show. And about using high power sound waves, given that water propagates mechanical waves better than electromagnetic waves? Another thing is that laser weapons could need lesser power if applied to injury/bleed a living target, and use the fact that sharks smells blood better. So your tactics changes to force the shark to eat. For the sweet water problem, if applied to a crocodile/alligator? A super power laser has a size problem, unless you use the same lightsaber power technology, to keep it small and powerful.
No discussion of total internal reflection or the science of detraction (Snell's Law)? This would add another barrier to the sharks' effectiveness. What could work however, is training the sharks to jump out of the water like a dolphin to remove the restrictions from water altogether.
Great show, Kyle, and I’m THANKFUL (Happy Thanksgiving ya’ll!) I was surprised you didn’t take time to explain what the word, or rather what the word “L.A.S.E.R.” stands for-- Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. To that end, unless you’re trying to preserve the sharks, it would make sense that your best effort isn’t to use a LASER, but rather, a MASER. Steam explosions would do more damage to your internal organs than would the actual laser. From your episode on disintegration we learned all about how much volume is created by the transition of water to steam., Add this to the incompressibility of water surrounding the hero, your result is a crushing and disruption of human internal organs. So, I did a bit of math. (I may be a frequent commenter, but bad I’m bad at math here, so if I execute poorly, perhaps Kyle or other fans can help me out?) So I found this article (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4659630/), which talks about underwater blast injuries, and says that the LD50 dose of energy is 302±16 kPa-ms. For lethality’s sake, let’s simplify this range to 318 kPa-ms. At this level, 50% of human beings would die from an underwater blast. How much MASER power would be required to generate this sort of blast? Using a 2.45 GHz MASER, the same wavelength commonly occurring in microwave ovens, one can predict that the water immediately in front of the shark would vaporize pretty quickly. However, unlike visible light, the longer wavelength of the MASER would more easily pass through the steam cloud. It would still diffract, but at a lesser rate than visible light. Let’s assume a balmy 393.2 Kelvin for the steam, as it boils at 120C under 2atm pressure, but that the pool is currently about 295.4K (72F). To obtain the desired 318 kPa-ms, let us assume that we are in a relatively shallow pool. A fathom (12 feet) is approximately 2 atmospheres (1 atm = 101.325 kPa) of pressure, which will affect the both the amount of energy that is required to create the blast as well as the efficiency of energy transfer for said blast into the hero. So to achieve a 318kPa-ms difference, you only have to change the pressure 2.57% per millisecond (202.7 + 318 = 520.7 kPa pressure after 1 ms). Alternatively, that’s 5.13 atm. Work is energy per unit time, so all we have to figure out is how to convert pressures into energy. To turn water into vapor at 2 atm, we need the ideal gas law: PV = nRT PV / RT = n P1V1 / RT1 = n = P2V2/RT2 P1V1/T1 = P2V2 / T2 [P1 x T2] / [P2 x T1] = V2/V1 [2 x 295.4] / [5.13 x 393.2] = R1/R2 = [590.8] / 2017.12] V2/V1 = .2929 What’s this mean? It means approximately 29.3% of the water needs to be vaporized in a given sphere to create the pressures needed to achieve a 50% lethal dose rate. Assuming that a MASER is about as efficiency at heating water as a microwave, 66% of the energy will be transferred to the water molecules at the focal point per unit time. That means that only two thirds of your energy will efficiently transfer to steam. If we assume the sharks can create a steam bubble within one meter of the hero due their proximity, our lasers will need to vaporize .293 x (4/3 x Pi x R^3) = =.293 x 1.33 x 3.14 x 1 = 1.23 cubic meters = 1.23 liters To vaporize 1.23 liters at 2 atm will require 2595kJ x 1.23 x 5.13 = 16,374 kJ Do that in a millisecond to get 16.374MJ / second, or 16.374 MegaWatts. That sure seems like a lot of power to put on a shark. (For goodness sake, somebody check my math!) Oh yeah, then we need to convert with only 66% efficiency. So we need (1 / .667) x (16.374), or about 25.5 MW MASER from a shark. That’s a lot of power to feed through a MASER beam on a shark. To compare, the common AA battery output is about 480 W, so you’d need 51,144 AA batteries to power a single shark-MASER. Now that I’ve embarrassed myself with math, maybe somebody will double check it? Happy Thanksgiving, fellow Nerds! Kyle, thank you for another awesome video!
Kyle spends an entire episode ruminating on how to build a better shark with a frikkin' laser on its head, and yet still maintains that he isn't a super villain. You know, when Kyle's evil plans come to fruition and he is holding the world to ransom, people are going to be asking us hard questions about why we didn't warn the governments of the world, given all the obvious warning signs.
I thought the lasers were to shoot at people outside the water, and possibly have them fall into the water, since sharks pose no danger to you unless you’re in the water with them.
What about aquatic mammals or amphibians that could surface then attack? Another option that I will bebunk myself, is doing something like starlink underwater with animals. but you would have to have a enough population under your control in a big enough area to make it feasible.
How defeat Kyle's Optic Unenabler Targeted Laser-based Aquatic Weaponry (OUTLAW): Wear glasses that filters out the laser. How do we determine the right filter you ask? I dunno I'm not the mastermind. Ask Kyle
As for the effectieness of laserweapons, even in air it would likely ionise the air and kill the one holding the laser through ambient heat if powerful enough to do actual damage at range, espacialy on a battlefield that might have some smoke and debree going around... under water, yeah those sharks are boiling themselves. Or, more likely, exploing themselves as the laser instantly turns all that water to steam.
Hey Kyle&Manbun (Glad to see there's a real supervillain persona out there now. Anyway....) About the 1m watt laser. I know that 1W lasers can cause permanent eye damage, and the more powerful you get the more damaging it becomes, but what would 1 million watts do? Is this the kind of power that could melt steel beams & blast holes in concrete, or is it even more extreme?
Kyle: "Here's how laser sharks would work." Also Kyle: "But I'm not a supervillain." Also also Kyle: "Not shaving my head." Bet those lovely locks are a wig and he's bald underneath. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Or villainy. Dr. Evil... Lex Luthor... me.... All really nice guys. Just a little misunderstood, that's all.
So. Do people still think we'd beat machines... That parasite vaporizing one is shooting through water at moving targets that are small than us and drones...
Ok Kyle the lazers effectiveness under water is limited,and also counter productive if used as intende by Dr Evil,lazers tend to cauterise wounds meaning no blood,wich is needed if you want your sharks to fallow up on that lazer attack with a good old feeding frenzy, surely the feeding frenzy was the reason we chose to put lazers on the heads of sharks and not on dolphins.
Correction? You said that you could barley see the laser beam when you could very clearly see the beam of the green one. And in the salt water they were more cloudy.
What about adding a secondary laser for when the target is out of water and then it comes up to the surface and shoots them out of water with a more powerful and damaging air laser beam?
Hello there! Mr. Kyle, thanks for all the nerd stuff as always. Love your show! With all this community talk about evil stuff, I though of asking if you're familiar with "Peter's Evil Overlord List" (Part 1 and 2). Hope that you are!
Hey Kyle! First time posting, but I've been watching your show for some time now and it's awesome! So I have a question! I just finished playing Jedi: Fallen Order and one of the abilities you can perform is "wall running". Do you think this is a realistic feat someone could perform, and if so how fast would they have to be running to achieve it?
wait...so all this time kyle has been the good guy? while manbun-guy has been the alter-ego-kyle-doppleganger, who was actually the supervillain we all suspected?? Only now that manbun-guy found a way to kill kyle with LASER-sharks, he decides to come out and take over the show....!!! we are all doomed!!!
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I think the secret is right in front of us. In Goldmember, when Scott finally gets Dr. Evil his laser sharks, it demonstrates its power by sticking its head out of the water and blasting an anonymous henchman. As you mentioned, lasers travel a lot more efficiently through air, so a laser weapon makes a lot more sense as a weapon for sharks to attack enemies that are out of their reach, ie out of the water.
And this actually fits, since great white sharks are known for their tendency to stick their head out of their water so that they can track the position of seals on the shoreline. They even have specialized eyes that allow them to see just as well in air as in water. Sharks are already deadly enough in the water without lasers, but can't do much to victims that are still on land. A laser would be a dastardly solution to this limitation.
Of course, if this is the purpose of the laser, then it probably would make more sense to use a more energy efficient weapon, like a bullet, since bullets don't travel very well in water but quite well in air. Or maybe even a grappling hook so the shark can pull its victim into its reach. I imagine besides the obvious shock factor of using a laser weapon, as well as the chance to use cool future tech, a laser would have one final benefit. It does have limited range in water, but then again, it doesn't need much range. A shark's jaws have a range of 0 and are still pretty dangerous. Instead of using the beam itself as a weapon underwater, the shark could use the laser at short range to disorient and intimidate its victim, and most importantly, using the heating of the water to injure and cook its next meal.
Yes, but if it's a blue/green laser not only can it snipe targets above water it can still hit things under water that are trying to escape its teeth. Shark cages and diver propulsion systems commonly used by secret agents will not protect someone from a laser shark. Add some sort of shark mind control, a laser com system, some low light or light amp cammeras, and a phased array sonar system and one of your higher level minions can control an entire shiver of sharks from within the submarine mobile lair.
This was what I was thinking as well. Another benefit of a laser shark is the ability to easily cool the laser. Lasers can get quite hot, so they often need large heat sinks/cooling systems. A shark could fire at a target above water, then go back down to let the laser cool in the water, then go back up and repeat. This would allow the laser to be lighter, because it wouldn't need as large of a heat sink/cooling system. This way, you could get a more powerful laser for less weight.
Bless your soul.
You are indeed a super nerd
You forgot the best part of a L.A.S.E.R, reloading. While bullets might be more efficient in terms of energy, sharks have a distinct lack of thumbs to reload a gun with ammunition thus making a weapon that doesn't need to reload a big bonus. Otherwise I completely agree.
*Kyle* : Gives sharks freaking laser beams to help them coordinate attacks
*Orcas, who've basically been doing that forever* : Am I a joke to you
Orcas communicate via sound waves. Sound is slower than light. Therefore, laser communication will be faster than orcas.
@@deathsheir2035 Correct, but for a regular shark/orca there isn't much difference between sound and light speed (as in it wouldn't speed up the communication process because both happen, relatively to it, instantaneously). Unless you gave the sharks computerlike enhanced brains to process information at such speeds. Which would be even more terrifying
@@jpobi9880 except that Orca can use their sonar to communicate over great distances. In which case a laser would be much more efficient.
@@garfelion5356 although it might be difficult to mimic that range with a laser.
Cyborg Sharks... *que 90's music*
This.... This is why I use harpoon manatees!!! No one expects the manatee!!!
Are we going to gloss over the fact that Kyle offhandedly called something a 'science tube?'
Feltrix I read this comment right when I got to the “science tube” hence ridding me of my confusion
yes -- kH
@@becausescience We love you kH
*Insert generic statement about this being an awesome and amazing show here*
*insert generic comment about Kyle being a super-villain using this video as a cover up to why he did research on this very super-villainy thing here*
But in all seriousness.... good show. :)
See you in the footnotes
Insert generic reply about keeping quiet to avoid laser shark related traps
Any manbun who says they're in charge isn't really in charge.
If Kyle says he's not a supervillain, I believe him.
"i'm on a watchlist"
Was that an asking for help, kyle?? 😮
You have an army full of nerds behind you. And you know, nerds rule the world..
Nerds rule, period. Nerds are we have everything ever. Windex, toilet paper, the internet, food preservation.
You could also train the sharks to think of anything the light is shining on as food. Give the laser a targeting system that always shines on the shark food when you feed them but is also programmed to shine on your enemies.
The laser might also be programmed to only work when out of the water. So the sharks can get targets dangling over your death trap, and not yet in the water.
Hey Kyle, two things. Sharks could quickly surface to blast unsuspecting heroes off the deck of the super boat, bypassing the beam through water. They could also use the laser cutter to cut holes in the hull of said boat to sink it. Love the show. Manbun 2020
Because Science presents: "The Rise of Man-Bun"
Potential new vignette series where villain and hero Kyles battle it out in the void to save humanity from itself.....
then both of them died n earth dont give any f...the tale lost in time...
From a fellow super villain, laser sharks could also be used to destroy ship and submarine propellers or maybe even punch holes into their hulls if the laser in powerful enough.
11:58 "many, many watts"
1.21 gigawatts, perhaps? GREAT SCOTT!
I think another big problem is that most sharks can't stay still in the water without sufficating. Because they're not able to breath in the normal way, they have to move forward to push water through their gills. Therefore aiming would be really hard and they had to turn away from their target to not ram into it.
An alternative would be a cat shark but due to its size it could be hard to fit a laser on it that doesn't makes it sink to the bottom of the ocean.
So nobody noticed the description says "Kyle gets his evil doctorate?"
Shark that blinds you before it devours you. Scary.
So, there have been 2 Kyle's this whole time!
I always felt that the lasers were damaging for a cool factor, but the actual function came from using light cues to aim *the shark*. if it's trained to go after lit targets, the laser could be used by humans or a targeting computer to steer them at targets.
like how a laser pointer plus a cat plus your buddy's groin equals comedy!
3:27 There's a theory I once read that it's because that range of light isn't absorbed by water, that is why our eyes evolved to see in that range. Also, here's a thought, not related to this episode: Commission an artist for art of your ship, the Velociraptor. Any space episodes, take place in it. Say her design is modular so all sorts of technologies can be installed. And make sure it has 2 seats so Because Space episodes can take place there too.
There is a use for laser underwater: as you mentioned short range metal cutters are a thing. So is canned supervillain's shark food, a.k.a. submarine.
At that point I'd think it'd just be easier to train the sharks to attack whatever the lasers are pointing at, less expensive lasers and with the added bonus of getting rid of incompetent minions.
Episode idea: how fast would Captain America have to calculate the math to throw his shield and make it come back to him perfectly like he does in the movies? Would this give him super processing like the Flash?
Love the show!!
Hey Kyle, love the show. In the thor comics by jason aaron there are space sharks that feed on unwary travelers. Putting lazers on these space sharks would be much more effective as they wouldn't be impeded by water
Kyle: if we were supervillains WHICH WE'RE NOT (multiple times)
Also Kyle: Sharks with frickin "laser" beams attached to their frickin heads
-plus the pinky move...
The evil manbun strikes again, he finally showed himself after being hidden behind the scenes for so long.
Kyle don't *frick* the laser beam sharks that isn't good for your health!
That offhand comment about lasers being "basically unimpeded" in air is only partially true. The effective power density depends a whole lot on focusing and the further you're going the harder it is to focus properly. The laser sniper rifle and laser bazooka that Styropyro made is a great example of this.
"Laser light". Every time someone says that, I flinch. It's like someone saying NASA national, or FBI bureau. Laser is an acronym, light is part of the acronym, saying laser light is needless repitition, and is probably grammatically incorrect once the acronym is expanded out.
Aspiring biologist here:
When you said "Almost no sharks live in fresh water," My mind almost immediately jumped to Bull Sharks. Bull Sharks have been found to live (or at least survive) in saltwater, freshwater and brackish water. Hypothetically, an evil genius (such as yourself) could get their hands on a few Bull Sharks, attach freakin' laserbeams to their freakin' heads and either keep them in water of any salinity, or release them to track down and violently laser their selected targets (provided they live near water)
There is also the problem that no matter what system is used, something sufficiently high powered would also produce a lot of waste heat, which is likely to do as much, if not more damage to the shark using the laser as it is to the target.
"Deploy the las-.... What do you mean the boiled themselves during testing?" - Notavillain 2019
If you have closed captions on at the very beginning it says "(evil, maniacal laughter)". Another clue pointing to Kyle being a super villain.
My new head cannon is every thing he draws is made with all the same attributes other real-world counterpart but it only works in the void because he has been stuck there for so long and one day he decided to test his power he made a clone machine and then it became a real and head bun man is an evil clone also all henchman are distorted clones.
3:00 telepathic communication thru telemeres 6:50 I should use saltwater and smoke for what I'm feeling in my brain atm 7:00 you working with me puts you in danger. Appreciate that✊🏽
I think laser bees might be more useful, although it would take very good sensors and a.i. Create a stationary laser and sensor array, then equip the bees with tiny mirrors and focusing lenses. If we can zap parasites off of fish it's not to far of a stretch to direct say, a hundred tiny lasers to individual bees. Then they wouldn't need to be all that powerful by themselves, because the swarm could direct so many at a target. And even if dozens of bees are destroyed by your opponent the overall effectiveness of the weapon system would remain viable despite massive losses. (Tiny drones might work better, but genetically engineered bees would be cooler). Just my 2 cents. Oh and I'm not a super villain either, I promise.
Ah but Kyle you have forgotten that bull sharks, a species of shark that can live in fresh water, would be more ideal to be your minion as they are incredibly agresive and will be more likely to attack enemies than the majority of other sharks.
I was expecting a cat or a bunny on your lap, so that you would be the ultimate villain
Dr. Kyle the evil genius. All hail Dr. Kyle.
Manbun - Mayhaps the best unknown Bond villain yet!
YOU'RE INSANE MANBUN!
Supervillain Kyle is the best Kyle... so natural.
I'd watch a new Austin Powers movie with Kyle playing Powers and Dr. Evil
Well the obvious answer is to have your base under a fresh water river in Australia and use the Australian Salt Water Crocodile with laser beams attached to their heads as guards
Not to mention the fact that lasers can be easily defeated by one reflecty boi
5:58 total internal reflection of red light
6:18 total internal reflection of green light
While you're on it, you might as well start going through the science of all the James Bond Super weapons. Golden Eye, Icarus...
TIL that a group of sharks can also be called a shiver.
Also TIL that Manbuns are evil.
9:00 Kyle, totally not a supervillain, Hill : Sorry supervillains your laser plan will not work! But, I'm about to hook you up, even though I'm totally not a supervillain.
Im out, I have waved my hand at all the stuff you have pulled off in the void... but a microwave that turns into a graph! you sir have gone to far!
I call the shark communications system:
Sharklink
I feel like you were only looking to the realm of lasers that already exist. The question I have is: How powerful would a laser have to be to be able to vaporize a guy under water from 100 meters, how much energy would such a laser require, and what kind of damage would the same laser be able to do above water?
We all gangsta till cheap Thor chooses villainy
Hi Kyle,
so i was thinking about the implications of lasers to blind other People under water
but then i came to think that the sharks could blind themselves if the light randomly reflected by some ramdom object under water and if I remeber correctly, sharks indeed have a great vision making them somewhat useless.
I also figured they could shoot lasers at a specific angle at the surface of the water so that the light would deflect and come down again, possibly confusing the enemy or reaching spots they wouldn't otherwise.
The rise of the super villian *cues dramatic music*
Put the laser eye tracking on a drone and you have a weapon that makes me wanna hide under the bed and not go outside ever again.
I think another problem that wasn't mentioned a while lot is what species of shark are we attaching frickin lasers to? This would no doubt depend on the application of said laser sharks; are they in a tank of some sort (like in the Austin powers movie)? If so, great white sharks are a terrible choice since none have lived in captivity for more than a few weeks. If it were my job to make laser sharks a real thing (sadly it is not) here would be my top recommendations for shark species. 1: Black tip reef shark. Although its not the largest shark it should be large enough for our purposes, can live in captivity, they are far from being endangered, and they prefer shallower water where they have a greater chance of lasering someone.
2: Tiger shark. The tiger shark is a large and strong predator that is a danger even without focused high power headlamps.
3: Bull shark. Not only is it also a large predator it also has the highest testosterone of any animal. Also it's able to swim both in salt and fresh water.
Hi Kyle, I like your show.
And about using high power sound waves, given that water propagates mechanical waves better than electromagnetic waves?
Another thing is that laser weapons could need lesser power if applied to injury/bleed a living target, and use the fact that sharks smells blood better. So your tactics changes to force the shark to eat. For the sweet water problem, if applied to a crocodile/alligator?
A super power laser has a size problem, unless you use the same lightsaber power technology, to keep it small and powerful.
No discussion of total internal reflection or the science of detraction (Snell's Law)? This would add another barrier to the sharks' effectiveness. What could work however, is training the sharks to jump out of the water like a dolphin to remove the restrictions from water altogether.
Great show, Kyle, and I’m THANKFUL (Happy Thanksgiving ya’ll!)
I was surprised you didn’t take time to explain what the word, or rather what the word “L.A.S.E.R.” stands for-- Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation. To that end, unless you’re trying to preserve the sharks, it would make sense that your best effort isn’t to use a LASER, but rather, a MASER.
Steam explosions would do more damage to your internal organs than would the actual laser. From your episode on disintegration we learned all about how much volume is created by the transition of water to steam., Add this to the incompressibility of water surrounding the hero, your result is a crushing and disruption of human internal organs.
So, I did a bit of math. (I may be a frequent commenter, but bad I’m bad at math here, so if I execute poorly, perhaps Kyle or other fans can help me out?)
So I found this article (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4659630/), which talks about underwater blast injuries, and says that the LD50 dose of energy is 302±16 kPa-ms.
For lethality’s sake, let’s simplify this range to 318 kPa-ms. At this level, 50% of human beings would die from an underwater blast. How much MASER power would be required to generate this sort of blast?
Using a 2.45 GHz MASER, the same wavelength commonly occurring in microwave ovens, one can predict that the water immediately in front of the shark would vaporize pretty quickly. However, unlike visible light, the longer wavelength of the MASER would more easily pass through the steam cloud. It would still diffract, but at a lesser rate than visible light.
Let’s assume a balmy 393.2 Kelvin for the steam, as it boils at 120C under 2atm pressure, but that the pool is currently about 295.4K (72F).
To obtain the desired 318 kPa-ms, let us assume that we are in a relatively shallow pool. A fathom (12 feet) is approximately 2 atmospheres (1 atm = 101.325 kPa) of pressure, which will affect the both the amount of energy that is required to create the blast as well as the efficiency of energy transfer for said blast into the hero. So to achieve a 318kPa-ms difference, you only have to change the pressure 2.57% per millisecond (202.7 + 318 = 520.7 kPa pressure after 1 ms). Alternatively, that’s 5.13 atm. Work is energy per unit time, so all we have to figure out is how to convert pressures into energy. To turn water into vapor at 2 atm, we need the ideal gas law:
PV = nRT
PV / RT = n
P1V1 / RT1 = n = P2V2/RT2
P1V1/T1 = P2V2 / T2
[P1 x T2] / [P2 x T1] = V2/V1
[2 x 295.4] / [5.13 x 393.2] = R1/R2 = [590.8] / 2017.12]
V2/V1 = .2929
What’s this mean? It means approximately 29.3% of the water needs to be vaporized in a given sphere to create the pressures needed to achieve a 50% lethal dose rate.
Assuming that a MASER is about as efficiency at heating water as a microwave, 66% of the energy will be transferred to the water molecules at the focal point per unit time. That means that only two thirds of your energy will efficiently transfer to steam. If we assume the sharks can create a steam bubble within one meter of the hero due their proximity, our lasers will need to vaporize
.293 x (4/3 x Pi x R^3) =
=.293 x 1.33 x 3.14 x 1
= 1.23 cubic meters
= 1.23 liters
To vaporize 1.23 liters at 2 atm will require
2595kJ x 1.23 x 5.13 = 16,374 kJ
Do that in a millisecond to get 16.374MJ / second, or 16.374 MegaWatts. That sure seems like a lot of power to put on a shark. (For goodness sake, somebody check my math!)
Oh yeah, then we need to convert with only 66% efficiency. So we need (1 / .667) x (16.374), or about 25.5 MW MASER from a shark.
That’s a lot of power to feed through a MASER beam on a shark. To compare, the common AA battery output is about 480 W, so you’d need 51,144 AA batteries to power a single shark-MASER.
Now that I’ve embarrassed myself with math, maybe somebody will double check it?
Happy Thanksgiving, fellow Nerds! Kyle, thank you for another awesome video!
Kyle spends an entire episode ruminating on how to build a better shark with a frikkin' laser on its head, and yet still maintains that he isn't a super villain. You know, when Kyle's evil plans come to fruition and he is holding the world to ransom, people are going to be asking us hard questions about why we didn't warn the governments of the world, given all the obvious warning signs.
Sorry, but a dude with a manbun will never apear threatening to me.
Gives reggae shark a 420WL lazer on his head
Flintheart Glomgold loves shark whit laser
Man Bun: evil confirmed
I thought the lasers were to shoot at people outside the water, and possibly have them fall into the water, since sharks pose no danger to you unless you’re in the water with them.
and Laaaaaserrrrr... lights up my... liiiiiife... it gives me hooooope... to carry on... it lights up my day.... :D
XD This is officially my favorite episode
I found the lasers in the salt water in the dark pretty cool!
What about aquatic mammals or amphibians that could surface then attack?
Another option that I will bebunk myself, is doing something like starlink underwater with animals. but you would have to have a enough population under your control in a big enough area to make it feasible.
this could only be found out if you built your own evil laser sharks
How defeat Kyle's Optic Unenabler Targeted Laser-based Aquatic Weaponry (OUTLAW): Wear glasses that filters out the laser. How do we determine the right filter you ask? I dunno I'm not the mastermind. Ask Kyle
Its wrong that my first thought was "what about the plastic!"
As for the effectieness of laserweapons, even in air it would likely ionise the air and kill the one holding the laser through ambient heat if powerful enough to do actual damage at range, espacialy on a battlefield that might have some smoke and debree going around... under water, yeah those sharks are boiling themselves. Or, more likely, exploing themselves as the laser instantly turns all that water to steam.
What if you replace the shark's teeth with those short range laser cutters, just to make the death a little more dramatic and painful.
Wow that salmon laser is SOOO sci-fi.
I really hope some super nerd does the calculations on using coherent sound beams under water as shark weapons.
flying sharks with lightsaber bite would be much more creative ....
my pizza rolls where done 10 seconds before it was said, i needed a good giggle today!
Great show. Bull sharks ability to survive in freshwater habitats, also known for its aggressive nature. Soo some sharks can live in freshwater :)
Hey Kyle&Manbun (Glad to see there's a real supervillain persona out there now. Anyway....)
About the 1m watt laser. I know that 1W lasers can cause permanent eye damage, and the more powerful you get the more damaging it becomes, but what would 1 million watts do? Is this the kind of power that could melt steel beams & blast holes in concrete, or is it even more extreme?
Best one so far
Yes Kyle, you are on a watch list, multiple RUclips Watch lists :P
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Oh and probably several governments because we all know you're a super villain.
Super villains gotta villain I guess.
Kyle: "Here's how laser sharks would work."
Also Kyle: "But I'm not a supervillain."
Also also Kyle: "Not shaving my head."
Bet those lovely locks are a wig and he's bald underneath.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Or villainy.
Dr. Evil... Lex Luthor... me.... All really nice guys. Just a little misunderstood, that's all.
Just replace the frikkin' lasers with a miniaturized torpedo system. :P
Great video as always just a reminder your villain card the is just about to run out.
So. Do people still think we'd beat machines... That parasite vaporizing one is shooting through water at moving targets that are small than us and drones...
Ok Kyle the lazers effectiveness under water is limited,and also counter productive if used as intende by Dr Evil,lazers tend to cauterise wounds meaning no blood,wich is needed if you want your sharks to fallow up on that lazer attack with a good old feeding frenzy, surely the feeding frenzy was the reason we chose to put lazers on the heads of sharks and not on dolphins.
Happy Dinosaur Bird eating day.....
Because Paleontology ?
That ending though.
Science tube is a graduated cylinder
Wouldn't attaching electronic devices to sharks mess with their electroreceptor organs? This would lead confused sharks and lower effectiveness.
You have talent as an actor
Evil Twin, I totally called it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Correction? You said that you could barley see the laser beam when you could very clearly see the beam of the green one. And in the salt water they were more cloudy.
What about tiger sharks,they can survive in fresh water and are aggressive enough to use as a living weapon.
What about adding a secondary laser for when the target is out of water and then it comes up to the surface and shoots them out of water with a more powerful and damaging air laser beam?
Oh neat a laser special. I'm curious if you've considered talking with "StyroPyro" who is a youtuber who frequently does experiments with lasers
Hello there!
Mr. Kyle, thanks for all the nerd stuff as always. Love your show!
With all this community talk about evil stuff, I though of asking if you're familiar with "Peter's Evil Overlord List" (Part 1 and 2). Hope that you are!
super villain confirmed
Hey Kyle! First time posting, but I've been watching your show for some time now and it's awesome! So I have a question! I just finished playing Jedi: Fallen Order and one of the abilities you can perform is "wall running". Do you think this is a realistic feat someone could perform, and if so how fast would they have to be running to achieve it?
wait...so all this time kyle has been the good guy? while manbun-guy has been the alter-ego-kyle-doppleganger, who was actually the supervillain we all suspected?? Only now that manbun-guy found a way to kill kyle with LASER-sharks, he decides to come out and take over the show....!!! we are all doomed!!!