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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.""
...if they had properly powered it with cold nuclear fission.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Looks like getting someone's pants on fire was not the pastime in Archimedes's day.
The height of conceit: having an orgasm and calling out your own name.
This thread needs more pictures of Kari...
...wait, wrong website. :-P
Screw the sails.. real triremes would have been covered in hemp rope. And from the experiments I performed in college, I can attest that hemp burns very well!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
5 second rule? What are you a barbarian? Where I come from it's 3 seconds. 5 seconds is just insane.
Arbitrary sig
Ergo egyptians did not build the pyramides. Martians did the good job, but they used all the resources available on Mars leaving the planet as we know it today.
Now I only have to put down my conlusions nicely written so it can be published in Science or something.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_dimming says that the earth has dimmed 'only' 5% globally since the 50's. Nice try, don't forget to turn in your geek badge on the way out!
I'd also like to see somebody try to take my badge for not cross-checking my wikipedia results with some other source. Go on, have at you!
your awesome logic and irrefutable arguments have completely convinced me sir. thank you for setting me straight. i wish all slashdot posts were as well reasoned and concise as yours.
MIT seems to have done well in this year's Head of the Charles Regatta. Reports of opposing crew shells bursting into flames have been dismissed by experts as "pure myth", but spectators were annoyed to find that all of the good viewing locations on the Harvard Bridge were occupied for the duration of the event by MIT mechanical engineering students.