To: numberonepal
The parabolic mirror technology is at least 1000 years old.
3 posted on
02/03/2011 5:16:38 AM PST by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: cripplecreek
“The parabolic mirror technology is at least 1000 years old.”
Burning mirrors date back to the ancient Greeks, and maybe earlier.
To: cripplecreek
![](http://www.computerweekly.com/PhotoGalleries/232923/36_20_Golden-Gun-The-Man-With-The-Golden-Gun-1974-Roger-Moore.JPG)
Of course Scaramanga was smart enough to house his death ray here instead of in a little wood shed where it would self-destruct.
![](http://www.freewallpaperpic.com/wp/andaman/0800/james-bond-island-ccby-ReneEhrhardt.jpg)
61 posted on
02/03/2011 7:01:36 AM PST by
VRWCmember
(Veritas vos Liberabit)
To: cripplecreek
Archimedes goes further back than that! He used the technology to sink enemy ships.
89 posted on
02/03/2011 10:35:12 AM PST by
MHGinTN
(Some, believing they can't be deceived, it's nigh impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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