Tests of Fabled Archimedes Death Ray Fail

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Kettch
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Post by Kettch »

Master of Ossus wrote:The Death Ray lives!

In Eritrea, of all places.

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Okay, so it's not vaporizing approaching enemy warships, but it's still pretty cool. A good start, given that he started with an old satellite dish and some tin foil.
The boy scout hand book has instruction on how to make mirror cookers. (They do have problems w/ temp control, no enought, or burning the ouside w/o cooking if you treat it like a regular cooking fire.)

He's builing it becaue of deforestation. Only semi-high tech. This is good third world inginuity.
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