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

The foundation of Creationism!

[FatSean]

I can't do it, I can't comprehend how it could happen, therefore it is Magic!

Scotti beam me up!

[austinpoet]

Ok so maybe I don't know how to spell her name, but that Scottie on Mythbusters is hot.

Like Greek goddess hot.

If she was on the boat, it would have caught fire.  Causing all of her clothing to be burned off.

Leaving her naked, tattooed goddess body bare to all, blinding the eyes of the MIT students who have no conception of what she could be.

I want to see more Myths about Scottie not being my one day loverslave.

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sorry.  I don't know what came over me there.

REPOST... BOO!

[jnull]

Even slashdot is slpping... the rain just keeps on fallin'

More MythBusters discoveries

[argux]

There's poo everywhere!!!

Re:The sail

[LeonGeeste]

You know, I've actually thought about a semi-related issue for a long time: in football (either kind) or even basketball, when the other team has the ball and is trying to pass to player X, how come no one ever tries to reach their hand out and cover X's eyes to keep him from being able to see where he needs to go? A friend of mine used to do this in informal games and it's extremely effective. Is there a rule against this or something? Does it maybe risk a foul?