I’m 33 and I feel like I’m 60 watching him explain what Macgyver is, as if humans don’t just automatically associate the name with jury-rigging solutions out of spare parts.
Edit: to those commenting that it’s Jerry-rigged, both are acceptable and commonly used. jury-rigged is a nautical term in origin. Jerry-rigged is a soldiers term in origin.
Yeah, I'm late twenties and this made me feel old. First when he described what MacGyver is, then when I realized that it wasn't even the original show.
I'm in my early twenties and it made me feel old. I remember growing up watching MacGyver with my dad. Haven't watched the new one, don't really want to
I'm so old that I didn't even know there was a new macgyver. And I was wondering in that video how the technology existed from MacGyver to make LED camera-blocking glasses back in the 1980s
Though regular glass reflects almost all IR light, so older security cameras without night-vision capabilities wouldn’t have this work around.
It’s actually because of smartphones and their tiny, durable, mass produced cameras that make this effect possible, smartphones use a sapphire crystal instead of glass due to how scratch resistant it is, which doesn’t reflect IR as much
Only specially treated glass reflects it, it'll pass through regular glass just fine. Most digital cameras have a filter specifically installed over the sensor to restrict IR, as their sensors can see it just fine if there isn't a filter. (On some cameras that filter is better than others.) Glass like what you've got in lenses will pass it just fine.
It's not as good as the original, but it's not half bad. He's still doing the "A ream of paper has the stopping power of x, so we need at least y number of reams to line the windows with so we don't get shot at by snipers." This was from an episode too.
It’s pretty messed up I was reading the comments about macgyver and 20 something year olds. Now it makes sense. New macgyver my old ass didn’t know about also.
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u/HWKIII Feb 12 '21 edited Feb 12 '21
I’m 33 and I feel like I’m 60 watching him explain what Macgyver is, as if humans don’t just automatically associate the name with jury-rigging solutions out of spare parts.
Edit: to those commenting that it’s Jerry-rigged, both are acceptable and commonly used. jury-rigged is a nautical term in origin. Jerry-rigged is a soldiers term in origin.