Archimedes Death Ray in San Francisco

Monkey-Man2000 writes "Following the recent demonstration by MIT students that Archimedes' death ray could have been used to burn Roman ships, the producers of the Discovery Channel's Myth Busters invited the MIT team to San Francisco to try their death ray on an 80-year old fishing boat. This time, even with perfect weather, they were unable to set the boat afire. From the article, "Peter Rees, executive producer of "Myth Busters," said the experiment at the Hunters Point Shipyard showed that Archimedes' death ray was most likely a myth.""

Comments

Oh Yes...

[Liam Slider]

We all know that a bunch of kids at MIT, and the morons at Mythbusters (who have been repeatedly shown to routinely fuck up their experiments) are just the people to prove that the guy who was most likely the single most brilliant human being in history (given his engineering ability, the materials he had to work with, and the fact that he wasn't "standing on the shoulders of giants") was wrong. Why, next week, maybe Mythbusters and some elementary school kids will disprove Einstein's Theories of Relativity!

here is the math

[John Harrison]

math for gunnk since he thinks the distance doesn't matter at all. Or math.