The coolest thing ever -- The Solar Death Ray

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2005-03-25 10:35am

Way, way too cool.

Majin Gojira · Post by **Majin Gojira** » 2005-03-25 10:52am

I would call it very hot, just to use a groan inducing pun!

Firefox · Post by **Firefox** » 2005-03-25 11:04am

Too cool. He's already done Army men, now he needs to locate and annihilate an ant hill.

Enigma · Post by **Enigma** » 2005-03-25 11:05am

Nice. I want one.

About melting the crayons:

While I was pleased at how easily the crayons were dispatched, I was a bit disappointed that I had failed to learn the location of their rebel base.

About melting the "Clue" board game:

The game smoked from the start, and it wasn't long before a
hole had been punched through. But the question remains: who
done it? I guess I did it, in the parking lot, with the death ray.

Funny.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-03-25 11:23am

cooool. i have to build one one of these days.

El Moose Monstero · Post by **El Moose Monstero** » 2005-03-25 11:56am

Cool, like that mirror that was supposed to be able to burn triremes from the top of a lighthouse (I'm tempted to say Alexandria, but I think I'm mixing legends), one of the old greek science types, archimedes maybe - was there any truth in that?

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2005-03-25 12:11pm

There's also the giant Fresnel lens. Order one up and you can burn stuff right away, no assembly required!

Then there's the variable focus solar deathray...

Lord Zentei · Post by **Lord Zentei** » 2005-03-25 02:17pm

El Moose Monstero wrote:Cool, like that mirror that was supposed to be able to burn triremes from the top of a lighthouse (I'm tempted to say Alexandria, but I think I'm mixing legends), one of the old greek science types, archimedes maybe - was there any truth in that?

I beleive it was Syracuse (at the time a Greek city) and the Death Ray builder was Archimedes. The triremes were Roman.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2005-03-25 02:28pm

Lord Zentei wrote: I beleive it was Syracuse (at the time a Greek city) and the Death Ray builder was Archimedes. The triremes were Roman.

They used the incoherent beam to burn the sails, not the boat's body like an episode of Mythbusters showed I think. Along with Greek fire which was essentially napalm, they had the ancient superweapons of the era and the Romans wanted them bad.

Ryoga · Post by **Ryoga** » 2005-03-25 05:32pm

Bah, bring on the Colony Laser, I say!

CaptainChewbacca · Post by **CaptainChewbacca** » 2005-03-25 06:41pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:
Lord Zentei wrote: I beleive it was Syracuse (at the time a Greek city) and the Death Ray builder was Archimedes. The triremes were Roman.
They used the incoherent beam to burn the sails, not the boat's body like an episode of Mythbusters showed I think. Along with Greek fire which was essentially napalm, they had the ancient superweapons of the era and the Romans wanted them bad.

When the Romans took the city they were under orders to capture Archimedes alive, in order to get his inventions, but the soldiers were so scared of him and his "magic" that when he yelled at one of them they were so scared they killed him.

Note to self: go back in time.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2005-03-25 07:48pm

CaptainChewbacca wrote: When the Romans took the city they were under orders to capture Archimedes alive, in order to get his inventions, but the soldiers were so scared of him and his "magic" that when he yelled at one of them they were so scared they killed him.

Note to self: go back in time.

He was the Oppenheimer of the time, so he'd have been valuable, but obviously too scary for the average Joe to the point that his life wasn't all that worth keeping.

Queeb Salaron · Post by **Queeb Salaron** » 2005-03-25 07:50pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:He was the Oppenheimer of the time, so he'd have been valuable, but obviously too scary for the average Joe to the point that his life wasn't all that worth keeping.

Oh, I don't know. He would have been very useful if kept cloistered, just churning out machines of destruction... Imagine all the DAMAGE we could do!!

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2005-03-26 08:36am

aerius wrote:There's also the giant Fresnel lens. Order one up and you can burn stuff right away, no assembly required!

Then there's the variable focus solar deathray...

I dug a little deeper at that site. Her frensel lens solar furnace is insane!

http://xenotechresearch.com/?NewLoc=solvari3.htm

A U.S. quarter coin placed at the focus boiled in roughly 25 seconds. Copper melts in seconds, aluminum almost instantly. Wood or plastic at the focus will burst into flames immediately. Sand melts into glass and water will boil at once. Small ceramic items could be glazed at the focus but control would be tricky. Some of the bricks I tested would fracture and I suspect that the same fate would come about for ceramics, due to the expansion and contraction rate.

Crossroads Inc. · Post by **Crossroads Inc.** » 2005-03-26 01:12pm

You know I would like this guy and find it all very awsome were it no the fact that...

HE BURNED AN ORIGINAL COPY OF TETRIS!!!

I mean, thats not just a collectors item, thats a piece of cult heritage, of Video Game Histroy! and he BURNS It!
*fumes angerly*

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-03-26 07:22pm

When the Romans took the city they were under orders to capture Archimedes alive, in order to get his inventions, but the soldiers were so scared of him and his "magic" that when he yelled at one of them they were so scared they killed him.

The story I've heard goes that he was sitting quietly doing geometric equations on the ground, and one of the soldiers yelled something at him, and he responded with "Don't interrupt my equations!" and the soldier, being a bit high on slaughter and mayhem, killed him. When Marcus Claudius Marcellus (the commander of the Roman expedition) heard, he executed the Roman soldier. He also built a giant claw that could knock over triremes.

I'm kinda disappointed that the website doesn't contain instructions on how to build one.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2005-03-26 07:52pm

Crossroads Inc. wrote:You know I would like this guy and find it all very awsome were it no the fact that...

HE BURNED AN ORIGINAL COPY OF TETRIS!!!

I mean, thats not just a collectors item, thats a piece of cult heritage, of Video Game Histroy! and he BURNS It!
*fumes angerly*

I was pissed at that too. When you have a copy on 5" floppy, you don't fucking incinerate it. Game Boy, yeah, but not an original.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2005-03-27 01:40am

HemlockGrey wrote:
When the Romans took the city they were under orders to capture Archimedes alive, in order to get his inventions, but the soldiers were so scared of him and his "magic" that when he yelled at one of them they were so scared they killed him.
The story I've heard goes that he was sitting quietly doing geometric equations on the ground, and one of the soldiers yelled something at him, and he responded with "Don't interrupt my equations!" and the soldier, being a bit high on slaughter and mayhem, killed him. When Marcus Claudius Marcellus (the commander of the Roman expedition) heard, he executed the Roman soldier. He also built a giant claw that could knock over triremes.

Plutarch doesn't have Marcus Marcellus Claudius killing him, though he does say he regarded him as a murderer... Plutrarch gives three stories over this, either a Roman tried to bring him in, and killed him he wouldn't, or a Roman offered to kill him and Archimedes told him to wait a second, only to find that he didn't have that second to wait, and, finally, that Archimedes was going to Marcus with a lot of golden equipment when a group of Romans came apon him and killed him. Not that you can blame the Romans, he was a war criminal.

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2005-03-27 12:42pm

Ryoga wrote:

Bah, bring on the Colony Laser, I say!

That looks like a martini shaker.

Crown · Post by **Crown** » 2005-03-27 03:34pm

Straha wrote:
HemlockGrey wrote:The story I've heard goes that he was sitting quietly doing geometric equations on the ground, and one of the soldiers yelled something at him, and he responded with "Don't interrupt my equations!" and the soldier, being a bit high on slaughter and mayhem, killed him. When Marcus Claudius Marcellus (the commander of the Roman expedition) heard, he executed the Roman soldier. He also built a giant claw that could knock over triremes.
Plutarch doesn't have Marcus Marcellus Claudius killing him, though he does say he regarded him as a murderer... Plutrarch gives three stories over this, either a Roman tried to bring him in, and killed him he wouldn't, or a Roman offered to kill him and Archimedes told him to wait a second, only to find that he didn't have that second to wait, and, finally, that Archimedes was going to Marcus with a lot of golden equipment when a group of Romans came apon him and killed him. Not that you can blame the Romans, he was a war criminal.

Huh? Archimedes was a war criminal

And Hemlock that's the story I heard too.

Illuminatus Primus · Post by **Illuminatus Primus** » 2005-03-27 03:56pm

Crown wrote:Huh? Archimedes was a war criminal

You Greeks sure are defensive.

wolveraptor · Post by **wolveraptor** » 2005-03-27 09:42pm

the little leperchaun on my shoulder told me to test it out on humans.

Hawkwings · Post by **Hawkwings** » 2005-03-27 10:35pm

Crossroads Inc. wrote:You know I would like this guy and find it all very awsome were it no the fact that...

HE BURNED AN ORIGINAL COPY OF TETRIS!!!

I mean, thats not just a collectors item, thats a piece of cult heritage, of Video Game Histroy! and he BURNS It!
*fumes angerly*

what better way for it to go though? Entropy guarantees a death, so why not make it spectacular? I, personally, cannot think of a better geek-death than that.