Teenage Mad Scientist Creates Solar Death Ray
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Yes it is. Lots of their experiments are flawed or applied in stupid ways, which is a shame considering the work and resources they put into them. Their explanation and reasoning are not only dumbed-down but usually very inaccurate as well. Good examples are when they tried to make hammers more brittle by "case hardening," only proving that they have no idea how that's even done, or when they tried to simulate two bullets colliding in mid air by holding one stationary and shooting the other at it at HALF velocity instead of DOUBLE.Diamondback One said:
Yes you could, but a regular lens that big would be a hell of a lot heavier and harder to make than a parabolic mirror. A Fresnel lens would be better.BrownGaijin said:
It would be quite practical, using modern technology, to have the mirrors adjust themselves according to the position of the sun and the target. The reason why it isn't used as a weapon is that guns and missiles are just so much better. It would be huge, would need a line of sight, and would take quite a while to destroy armoured targets. It would almost always get destroyed by it's target before it destroyed it's target.Darkauthor81 said:
yeah... I wonder how much that cost him. That's my question.
You can build a missile kn your back yard it just takes 1K
You can build a missile kn your back yard it just takes 1K
He's an must be an evil genus. You know I heard that when no one was looking, he took forty cakes. He took 40 cakes. That?s as many as four tens. And that?s terrible.
That's cool but completely impractical. Yes mr. Bond just stand right here in front of, no a little further back, just to your right, yes right, no stand still!
That's cool but completely impractical. Yes mr. Bond just stand right here in front of, no a little further back, just to your right, yes right, no stand still!
They're methods were so poor that it didn't prove much of anything. However, you would need a bigger dish than this, and the video is obviously faked.Agayek said:
I already saw a very similar video about a month ago. They did the same thing but funneled the energy from outside and into a room, which then focused it. They had rails and a little thing on top to attach stuff to, then pushed it into the focus point. They melted a 1/2" steel bolt in it.
Here's a different one but it's even bigger
Here's a different one but it's even bigger
This is not a new idea! This is not impressive! Aristotle invented this idea over 2000 years ago. They use this principle in Solar furnaces all the time, more effectively I might add. This is not news, this is a guy's hobby.
He is not a mad scientist! He's a guy who read his history of Syracuse and decided to re-enact it.
He is not a mad scientist! He's a guy who read his history of Syracuse and decided to re-enact it.
5,800 mirrors isn't bad. That's a lot of focused energy. Watching it decompose and recrystallize the cement was weird, though. I was not expecting that.
That was using Archimedes' theoretical laser death ray. Archimedes didn't have the technology available to focus quite that much light to a single point - also, he was using lenses rather than mirrors.Baron Von Evil Satan said:
Interestingly, if the lens idea and mirror idea were combined, it could become a long-range weapon. The lens, on the right sort of rig, could alter the path of the light and bring death in a wider arc than 'straight ahead'.
