The NASA Scientist Who Invented the Super Soaker
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- Remember the childhood hours of fun spent blasting your friends with neon-tinged water cannons? You can thank a NASA scientist for that. In 1982, Lonnie Johnson designed the Super Soaker. But that wasn't Johnson's only invention. The award-winning scientist came up with everything from the Nerf gun to a thermoelectric energy converter, and now he's got even bigger aims. Lonnie Johnson: We salute you.
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This man is the hero of my youth's hot summer days when I had nothing else to do.
+Caleb Lampshade I can reminisce endlessly on the summer days of when I was little and the fun I had with Super Soakers with my friends and cousins and siblings. And even now Nerf guns are totally fun. I have to thank this man for so much fun in my youth ^^
The Wooden Skeptic in
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Same here!
I remember some friends saying on a particularly hot day that they were going to hold a squirt gun battle the next day.
So I went out to Walmart, and purchased the biggest model they had.
Everyone else had maybe a pistol or the usual super soakers..yet when I shot them its as if they were blasted from a super powered garden hose. There was no doubt that they were hit lol.
The Wooden Skeptic the thing kids use to soak other kids with nice wet fluids
Stealth bombers during the day, Super Soakers at night. This guy is a legend .
would Stealth Bombers be more stealthy in the night and Super-Soakers be more cooling and fun in the day ?
Mapple Sample this was a year ago
I gave u a like. U need 1 more to reach 1000 likes.
A legend indeed
@@1224chrisng That's exactly the plan. He worked on Stealth Bombers in the day, so they fly in the night and worked on Super-Soakers in the night, so they can be used in the day.
Pure genius, isn't it?
My mother worked with Mr Johnson's wife as a school teacher for years. I used to spend summers over a his place, hanging with his boys. Great times, and Mr. Johnson was another awesome role model I looked up to when I was younger. Thanks to the whole Johnson family for some great times!
What a cool place to be. Did you play with Super Soakers?
That man's voice is fantastic.
Nolan T. soooo....much....vocal fry...
mans*
Did you just assume ze's gender?
+Tall Tony hey cutie
Nolan T. just like his brain
"it still works"
Yeah, unlike the new ones
omfg this is so true hahahahaha
It's a shame you cannot even buy a good quality blaster anymore. All the new soakers are just pump and boring. We need some higher quality, good looking, awesome ones.
Just get the hydro cannon
The new ones were not invented by him; they tried to bypass his patent for the newer models
Ooh burn 🔥
I want a full length documentary about this man of genius ;)!!!
Mozus Roman first reply kek
I want a nerf gun m8.
Once you invented a Super Soaker. Everything else is down hill.
I see where you are going there. Are you aware that everything Elon Musk is doing with the Tesla car is based on Lonnie's inventions. Look up the J-TEC engine. The ceramic and Li-air batteries are his inventions. No, we did not miss the magic of your misdirection. This is the real Iron Man.
Nice shut-down... and educational, too!
dang this man needs to do voicing in movies.. like a villain's voice or something.
+julie bane Like a mad scientist trying to take over the world? Well what if art became life?
Documentaries
star that's for Australians he needs to be in food documentary
Kinda reminds me of james earl jones who voiced for CNN and darth vader.
"Wetter is Better"? More like "Moist is Noice"
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You betcha
the real Lucious Fox
HansCent boi
HansCent so close to being the hundredth like!
XD
This guy deserves a special place in heaven
alex vargas he gotta sleep beside God
I miss the giant Super Soakers that you could over-pressurize and also had recoil when you fired them.
Meatshield108 i loved that so much
I still have one of those, i still can't handle the recoil.
In the next 15 years Nerf mechs will be available.
XD
nerf this
dva?
They already are available, just reverse engineer your mechs man! haha, they're not complicated :) I had an engineering project where I had to reverse engineer a Nerf gun and improve it's function somehow. We managed to improve its shooting distance by nearly 70% with just a couple adjustments
Andy Nguyen Nerf Gundams?
This man helped get through my boring ass childhood. Many thanks to him!
Not everyone has a good childhood lmao
Those were so fun when I was a kid during the summers.
He was designing a super soaker and a stealth bomber at the same time😂
I loled when he said he worked on the bomber by day and the super soaker at night. In fiction it's usually the other way around. 😂
This needs to be at least 20 min or so :< 2:30 is not enuff.
I pressed the timestamp…
That man brought fun to my summer
And he's using the money he earned on a lab and research to try and develop better batteries... Gotta love this man, batteries are definitely something that needs improvement, it's 2017 and I can't use my iphone for 1 day without having to charge it at least once, I remember back when I had a nokia that lasted for a week without charge, even if I played snake for an hour each day
His net worth is 360 million!!! Crazy!!!
You do know how famous his inventions are, right?! Surprised it's not more honestly
Jake Gribble my net worth is 10 pennies
whoaaa
ACE 54 my net worth is whatever’s in my pocket at the time.
Jay z has 900 million
love to see an hour history on Lonnie Johnson!! Wish America valued intelligence as much as football.
+toshibavoodoo as if they were mutually exclusive, -_-
You my friend, are an idiot.
I wish America valued intelligence as much as religion
Toaq You my friend, carry a good point. Honestly, the religious opinion is no longer as important as it was years ago. I hope being secular begins to popularly spike here as it has in Europe. However, I envy them for no other reason lmao
'MERICA! FUCK YEA!
I don't. It makes people interested in this stuff more unique. For some reason now I feel like programming
member my first super soaker that shit had lights and sound effects that shit was tight!
Crazy Villarruel when ur the kid with the coolest toy on the block
All that and hes still working hard in the lab to find new answers to everyday problems. Glad we still have him around.
Wtf, you need to be a nasa genius to invent the super soaker
Yup
eatcarpet maybe not a nasa genius but definitely a genius there's probably more that goes into inventing stuff than it may seem and remember this was years ago
Well the original intent was wayyyyy more advanced but the dude was prob like “this would make a good toy”
Correlation does not imply causation
Intelligence has this funny property where as someone has more of it, the more selfish and jaded they become, and then you break through the other side and start getting people like this.
most comments mentioning he's black... why does it matter? he's a genius inventor with an awesome voice.
Did not see one comment. But that is a good thing. Let's celebrate that he is black since black people are very demonnized by the media.
You sir , have made my childhood as one of the best times in my life because of one of your inventions , and for that *I thank you* !
This guy is responsible for so many fun hours I had as a child
God bless that man, he made 90s summers so memorable
We need that battery for our smartphones! I hope you can work it out soon!
“Wetter is better”
That’s what she said
The man who invented childhood
A scientist with a great sense of humor and smile to match. Well done. Hopefully, his new battery replacement is also a winner.
This has gotta be the coolest guy ever
The Super Soaker and the whole NERF weaponry are actually important inventions. They are possibly some of the best iterations of fake warfare for children, that is very important in a society where a lot of people might go into actual warfare at some point in their lives!
Diego Ruiz problem is nerf darts are inaccurate as hell, but nerf guns are still really fun
The joy I feel knowing I own a few blasters from his patents.
I use this and fill it with household Windex, it can take out ANY insect, large beehives, even wolf spiders.
This guy is my childhood during the warm and hot days we went out side and used the supersoaker while playing nerf fooball or basketball. Then during the chilly day and then up through winter we would go inside and nerf gun each other. I rember when the rocket launcher came out we would have that and the regular nerf guns it was all out nerffare.
I had no idea it had a proper name Super Soaker. Back where I'm from, we just call it water gun or water pistol.
HIS VOICE IS SO BEAUTIFUL
iEyEi had the honor of meeting this brilliant elder.
the vocal fry is killing me
+Sawyer Rice he got soul
+Izio Shaba I was referring to the girl at the beginning
What a legend! Many a memory was created in those hot summer days against those darn kids from the other neighbourhood.
Heard of him before. What a man. Would love to meet him one day.
Thank you for the childhood memories
DR JOHNSON IS A GENIUS. THANKS YOU!
My childhood toy. Thank You Lonnie Johnson.
From classified bomber to nurf gun that's a change for the better
The most memorable moments of my childhood is when all the kids at the neighborhood park would bring their waterguns. Then divide into two factions and fight eachother in several battles all day. Me and another kid had super soakers. I had the iconic yellow with green water storage on top (like on his pin in the video) and he had the special super soaker that shoots a powerful blast if you pump it a bunch of times.
What a cool guy, hats off to you!
what a freaking legend
Next he is going to make a nerf gun for soldiers in war... Solider breaks into room and says "say hello to my little friend" dart goes 2 inches and awkward silence occurs, then laughter, and then death.
Go Lonnie, we need that battery.
i didn't believe it at first but this shows anyone can make a toy for kids🤯😳
This guy sounds like Morgan freeman and it’s awesome.
thank you Mr. Lonnie Johnson for keeping us cool in the summer in late 90s and early 2000s and also waiting for the day when I can buy my children their first super soaker.
Brilliant man! I salute thee!
This guy pretty much changed my life.
Super soaker was the shit during summer. What a great way to cool off and have a lot of fun with your friends.
Lucius Fox
"from a nerf gun to a space technology"
fuckin hell that's a massive jump between the two
#BLACKeXcellence.
The world doesn't even know the most of the greatest inventions are by black people. Smh
Thanks Lonnie for water soaked childhood years. :)
Truee
That picture of her coworker sums up the late 80-90's in one picture... priceless.. :D
Please bring back the good super soakers from the 90s!
One word. GENIUS
My dad has a super soaker and the thing was massive and it blasted water powerful but when we had to move we left it at the house.
I had a super soaker! It was so cool, for the 12 minutes it lasted before breaking.
I read it as super sucker with a thumbnail of a man holding a long object and my reaction was "uhhhhhhhhhh. ok?"
OutStanding!! You produce excellent inventor videos that help.
*Patents the nerf gun*
“Hey let’s interview a subset of the nerf gun”
This man is worth about 360 million dollars.
Thank you for providing endless summer fun.
Stealth bombers and water guns have something in common
you use them to fight and it doesn't hurt to try them out
Even such a great scientist does not use a Macbook 2:00
I bet he made way more money with the SuperSoaker than with all the rest of his career combined.
even the adults can create some fun than just look like they're creating the best top secret weapon.
next time if my teacher asked me what are the greatest things NASA created, I'd answered the nerf Super Soaker and Moonbase Alpha
god bless this guy and all the fun he's let us have on those hot and humid days
Heaven-forbid he should be shown with the CPS-2000 Mk.1... the water-gun so powerful, it had to be redesigned--for "safety reasons".
I remember the screw in part would fit the hose PERFECTLY. Then we turned the hose on and it was basically a pressure washer LOL. That thing hurt when you got sprayed with it, now that I think about it, probably could have blinded someone ha
This man is responsible for me getting gallons of water getting shot at my eye
I love this guy.
Mr. Johnson, thank you for contributing to my childhood!
I remember Super Soakers because they are the only water gun that works better than all the others and lasted year after year.
How do you find all these awesome people!!
Huh.....So an advanced scientist did invent an important childhood accessory. Who knew.
This guy also made nerf. Hell yeah!
freaking iconic
Ok, so he was a part of B2 program, NASA engeenier, invented 100 things, including the super soacker and has an epic voice. OK, evolution, we need to talk
Lonnie Johnson net worth 360 millions.
I read about this guy in my book I'm so surprised!
Thank you for making my youth fun...
This dude just got paid 72+ million backpay and royalties today that were not paid by that toy company
Please bring them back !!
Wow! Had about 5 super soakers growing up. Why doesn't this guy get recognized for black history?
This was perfect. I had a few of them as a kid back in the 90's and still have the CPS4100 he has in that picture today. I miss the super soakers of old, they were the big guns which not only could output high volumes but also high pressure. Todays super soakers just don't cut it. I do know however why they were toned down, the CPS (Constant Pressure System) and the other higher pressure guns of the time could at close ranges lead to bruising or other minor injuries when playing like kids do. I'll be honest though I will miss going to our pool's free day and just whipping out that monster CPS 4100, if you had a good gun and could hold the bastard up long enough to aim people didn't even think of coming at you alone and always had to team up. The fill up time on most of the guns was horrible and left you the biggest target for others.
This man is a hero
He has saved many hot summers from the destruction of the hell flame we call the sun.
I gave a lot of kids glasses with this
This guys went to my school today, he's amazing
He's working on the solid state battery... no way?!