The Solar Death Ray

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday March 23, 2005 @11:32AM from the for-small-values-of-death dept.

Ant writes the "Solar Death Ray is made of 112 mirrors mounted on a platform 4 feet wide and 6 feet tall. Each mirror is a square roughly 3.5 inches on edge. All these mirrors focus the sun to a single spot 5 feet, 6 inches from the mirror platform. A wooden fork extends from the mirror base to the area near the focus and serves as a mounting point for Solar Death Ray targets. The mirror platform is mounted to the support frame on a pivot that allows the platform to be angled. The whole system is mounted on a set of wheels. The goal of the Web site was to show the results of the targeted items when the solar death ray was used."

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I've already seen it by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-23 11:33 · Score: 5, Funny

And Batman & Robin wasn't very good.
the website is subtitled by winkydink · 2005-03-23 11:33 · Score: 5, Funny

How I squandered my youth and why I didn't get laid.

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1. Re:the website is subtitled by Zone-MR · 2005-03-23 11:36 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Hmmm, judging by his short writeup it seems he's doing everything right.
2. Re:the website is subtitled by The+Bungi · 2005-03-23 12:00 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  I feel a disturbance in the InnoDB table - it's as if suddenly a million .sigs changed to the same exact value.
  Slashdot, we have a winner.
3. Re:the website is subtitled by yo303 · 2005-03-23 12:02 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  From his imagined "finding a girlfriend" walkthrough:
  I think I need to find the "Conversation Starter" and use it in the "Social Setting," but I can't get past the troll at the entrance to "The Castle of Girls I Don't Know."
  Classic.
4. Re:the website is subtitled by DjReagan · 2005-03-23 13:06 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  If nothing else, they'll have the smell right.
  
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Heh by grub · 2005-03-23 11:33 · Score: 5, Funny

From his main page:

News:
March 22, 2005: Holy crap! 120,000 page views today!
Solar Death Ray Guy's next News entry should be fun.

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1. Re:Heh by elflet · 2005-03-23 11:37 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  120,000 page views?! That's nothing compared to the Slashdot death ray!
2. Re:Heh by noidentity · 2005-03-23 12:57 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Here's a related article I just submitted:
  
  "Slashdot Death Ray is made of tens of thousands of geeks, most mounted on platforms approximately one to two feet high, and approximately 18 inches on each edge. Each geek focuses HTTP requests to a single web server at a distance ranging from tens to thousands of miles away. A web site is kept visible at all times on the geeks' computers and serves as mounting point for the URL of Slashdot Death Ray targets. The whole system is mounted on a large rock sphere. The goal of this summary is to show the results of the targeted website when the Slashdot Death Ray is used."
3. Re:Heh by Dachannien · 2005-03-23 14:47 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  and approximately 18 inches on each edge
  
  Or so we'd like to think.
Wierd! Science? by FreeLinux · 2005-03-23 11:34 · Score: 5, Funny

Kent! Where'd you put the giant bag of popcorn at?
Ultimate Geek Toy by Zone-MR · 2005-03-23 11:34 · Score: 5, Funny

I want to build one of these now... Except I'm in Northern England. I'd be lucky if it could melt marshmallows :p
From the Website by th1ckasabr1ck · 2005-03-23 11:35 · Score: 5, Funny

"Join the fun! Suggest a target!"
Dantooine. I mean Alderan. I don't understand the question.
1. Re:From the Website by Anonymous Coward · 2005-03-23 11:38 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That's no sun!
The Alan Parsons Project by AtariAmarok · 2005-03-23 11:38 · Score: 5, Funny

"Ant writes the "Solar Death Ray is made of 112 mirrors mounted on a platform 4 feet wide and 6 feet tall...."
Yeah, but can you mount it on the head of a friggin shark?

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Who needs a solar death ray... by kennyj449 · 2005-03-23 11:38 · Score: 4, Funny

when you can just point Slashdot at a server?
Warning! by Eryq · 2005-03-23 11:41 · Score: 4, Funny

Don't look at mirrors with remaining... er... head...

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Solar Death Ray by TimeTraveler1884 · 2005-03-23 11:57 · Score: 5, Funny

I hate to be the one to point this out, but um. They haven't actually killed anything. This more accurately should be called a Solar Plastic-Melting Ray.
Re:Ha! You call that a solar death ray? by Geoffreyerffoeg · 2005-03-23 11:59 · Score: 4, Funny

Quattuor res in hoc mundo sanctae sunt: libri, liberi, libertas et liberalitas.

You forgot libstdcpp.
Kindergarten Death Squad!!! by Meostro · 2005-03-23 12:06 · Score: 5, Funny

I always wanted to round up a kindergarten class worth of children to act as my solar death squad. Here's how it would work:

1. Give each kid their own shiny little mirror with a post-it note stuck on it to block the shiny part
2. One at a time, have them remove the post-it, aim their mirror to reflect the sun upon some point, then re-post-it.
3. Once everyone is aimed (30 kids or so), have them all remove their post-its at once, instantly creating a plasma-hot ball of fire at the point of focus, incinerating your enemies with the might of a kindergarten class.

Has anyone else had this idea too, or am I the only weirdo around here?
Re:Magnification does nothing by jericho4.0 · 2005-03-23 14:32 · Score: 4, Funny

No they're not similar at all. The microscope uses lenses and refractors, while the telescope uses magic.

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Re:Solar Death Ray by mswope · 2005-03-23 14:56 · Score: 5, Funny

I have this mental image of him trying to sneak up on the "enemy" to get that thing within 4 feet of them and then trying to get on the side of them away from the sun...
"Behold the terrible power of the SUN! Hold still, please!"
Re:Solar Death Ray by liquidsin · 2005-03-23 18:32 · Score: 4, Funny

I don't know how this got to (Score 3, Insightful), but the genius mod responsible is my new fucking hero.

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