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[Nilocy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0_nuvPKIi8&feature=player_embedded

I love humanity.

[Zrk2]

Champ

[Akura]

"With a mirror this big, would it be possible to set light to something?" *pokes it with flammable stick*
"Can we do that again?"

Mythbusters has nothing on this guy.


Spacebourne metalworks would be a significant step forward in space-age development. There's a lot of materials that cannot be made on Earth(due to gravity) that would very useful for spacecraft, space stations, etc.

[The Transcendent Tyrant]

Pfft, the Greeks did it already.

[Realmfighter]

But we did it so much better then they did.

[Itnetlolor]

Shouldn't be too long before a proper solar death ray is weaponized.

If Archimedes was able to pull it off back then, then we should be able to improve on it in no time.

[Gorjo MacGrymm]

That is so effing cool.

[Eugenitor]

First one to turn a decommissioned satellite into ball bearings wins.

[Lesconrads]

Thanks for pointing me to that series! I LOVE IT SO FUCKING MUCH

[Fossaman]

Shouldn't be too long before a proper solar death ray is weaponized.

I'd like to point out that the focal point appears to be approximately two feet away from the mirror. So unless you like using your death ray in melee combat...(which would of course be awesome, but that's not the point)

[Zrk2]

Pbviously the planes of the mirror/glass could be changed in different designs to produce different focal lengths.

[Duelmaster409]

I see the beginning of the first prototype lightsabers ever designed.

[Ottofar]

I see the beginning of the first prototype lightsabers ever designed.

I think that'd need some kind of magnetic field or something.

[Virex]

Technically you´d be making a plasma saber in such a case.


Anyway while this mighty mirror is pretty impressive it´s not exactly new. The first solar furnace was build in 1949, but due to it's reliance on sunny weather and the fact that most industries can be found in the wet lowlands close to the sea or rivers, they never really got off the ground.

[Soadreqm]

I see the beginning of the first prototype lightsabers ever designed.

I think that'd need some kind of magnetic field or something.

That'd basically need magic.

Which is not to say that there will never be working lightsabers, only that they will work differently from how you guessed, and any detailed blueprints you make now will be the future equivalent of steampunk.

Magnetpunk?