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The secret Nazi plan to blow up cities and boil oceans with a mile-wide 'SUN GUN'
Daily Mail ^
| 2nd April 2013
| Mark Prigg
Posted on 04/02/2013 7:10:34 AM PDT by the scotsman
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To: spel_grammer_an_punct_polise
I had always been intrigued as a child about little magnifying glasses that would make grass, leaves or twigs catch fire.
If the Germans were thinking of some kind of focused beam or parabolic dish Im afraid that the concentrated rays of the sun would burn up the parabola. Just like with the magnifying glass, the concentration of the light doesn't happen at the parabola, it happens at the focal point away from the parabola.
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posted on
04/02/2013 8:18:33 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: baddog 219
Who said it didnt......
A /s would have spoiled the thought I thought.
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posted on
04/02/2013 8:25:13 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: the scotsman
Query: I seem to remember that Archimedes did something similar for the Greeks. Help me out here please.
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posted on
04/02/2013 8:26:03 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Gives a rather deadly meaning to the old phrase “Rey of sunshine”
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posted on
04/02/2013 8:26:59 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: the scotsman; Allegra; big'ol_freeper; Lil'freeper; TrueKnightGalahad; blackie; Cincinatus' Wife; ..
Re:
The giant mirror could be used to focus the sun on a target Well, I use my smaller mirror... the same way--
Focusing on... my target!
And unlike them gall durn Nazis, I hit my target... time after time after time--
He does... ya know!
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posted on
04/02/2013 8:29:11 AM PDT
by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
To: Leaning Right
Quite correct. Hitler had an unusual fascination, one might say obsession for exotic and strange weaponry.
Hitler’s greatest asset in WWII were the military minds who made up his general staff and his leading panzer commanders-—men whose advice and counsel he routinely ignored-—another major reason Germany lost the war.
To: mountainlion
I guess that flying saucer thing did not work out. That's what They want you to think...
To: the scotsman
Not to worry. James Bond took care of this problem in “Goldeneye.”
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posted on
04/02/2013 8:42:28 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(Free Republic: faster than a speeding bullet!)
To: Bender2
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posted on
04/02/2013 9:03:10 AM PDT
by
Old Sarge
(We are officially over the precipice, we just havent struck the ground yet...)
To: Leaning Right
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posted on
04/02/2013 9:46:44 AM PDT
by
RobO1125
(Conservatives have a diversity of ideas, not simply colors)
To: babygene
There was a book by an electrical engineer called, “How to Turn A Microwave Oven Into a Ray Gun”.
He used a busted 5KW commercial oven’s innards to set plywood on fire at 500 feet. Boiled a cup of water in 4 seconds.
Just think of what would happen to the operator if the beam reflected back!
I’ll bet this stuff is on YouTube now.
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posted on
04/02/2013 9:46:49 AM PDT
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darth
To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
Hitler had an unusual fascination, one might say obsession for exotic and strange weaponry.A fascination shared, curiously enough, by Churchill: who spent a remarkable amount of time and energy pursuing sometimes quite bizarre projects - some of which worked, others didn't.
To: staytrue
the suns rays are quite diffuse. all spacecraft receive direct sunlight and do not burn up. the parabola would receive diffuse rays and the rays would only be concentrated at the focal point of the lens. only at the focal point will there be burning rays. Several questions(actually one with several subsets). What is the temp of Mercury's surface? What is the temp of the moon's surface on the sunny side? A parabolic mirror would provide ample temp for burning things. Don't believe it? Buy a reflector telescope and then use the mirror to focus the sun on something flammable, see what happens.
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posted on
04/02/2013 2:43:53 PM PDT
by
calex59
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