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Death Ray - Sciences, Education, Art, Writing, UFO - Posted: 8th Nov, 2005 - 1:26pm
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Did Archimedes really burn all those ships?
Post Date: 23rd Oct, 2005 - 12:27am / Post ID: #
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According to sparse historical writings, the Greek mathematician Archimedes torched a fleet of invading Roman ships by reflecting the sun's powerful rays with a mirrored device made of glass or bronze.
More than 2,000 years later, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona set out to recreate Archimedes' fabled death ray Saturday in an experiment sponsored by the Discovery Channel program "MythBusters."
Their attempts to set fire to an 80-year-old fishing boat using their own versions of the device, however, failed to either prove or dispel the myth of the solar death ray.
Ref. https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051022/ap_on_...medes_death_ray
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I doubt such a ray ever existed since it would take hundreds of precisely set mirrors set to one point for a considerable length of time to make it work and most enemy ships would be on the move. If anything, it could be used as an excellent blinding device.
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