my state of mind creates my world
"I believe the cost of life is Death and we will all pay that in full. Everything else should be a gift. We paid the cover charge of life, we were born."
Bill Hicks, February 1988
The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
Q:What's the difference between the Great Highland Bagpipes and the Northumbrian Pipes?
A:The Great Highland Pipes burn longer.
What a wonderful miracle if only we could look through each other's eyes for an instant.
Thoreau
Remember.........YOU LOSE!!!
Do we sleep when we die?
eRic.
I'm not normally a religious man, but if you're up there, save me, Superman!
Jesus helps me trick people.
"you know there are no trophys for doing silly things in real life yeah pete?" said ant "you wont get a 'listened to ride of the valkyries all the way to vietnam' trophy"
*proud owner of the very cute fire_spinning_angel, birgit and neon shaolin*
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What about that episode of MythBusters?
MythBusters is a show on the Discovery Channel, where some talented people
test various myths and urban legends. During episode 16, they tackled the
question "Did the Greek scientist Archimedes set fire to a Roman fleet of ships
using only mirrors and sunlight?" They built a very large but eerily similar cousin
of the Solar Death Ray and tried to set a chunk of a recreated Roman boat on
fire. Long story short: they couldn't get it to work. And yet my version does...
Why? Well, for one thing, I'm trying to focus light on an object a few feet from the
mirrors, and they were trying to focus on an object dozens of feet away. The
farther away the target, the more precisely aligned your mirrors have to be. I know
my mirrors have to be within about +- 0.5 degrees to properly focus light on the
target, and so the MythBusters had to have mirrors much more precisely aligned. I
don't know how they aligned their mirrors, but I suspect that was the problem. In
addition, I would have used a concentrator design much different from both their
version and the Solar Death Ray. Still, I agree with their conclusion: It would be
very difficult, but not impossible, for Archimedes to have pulled this off, mainly
because of the manufacturing tolerances involved. But if Archimedes had the
resources...
Did MythBusters copy your design? Did you copy their design?
No, I built both of my Solar Death Rays (Mark 1 and Mark 2) before this episode
aired, so I couldn't have copied their design. And I didn't start the website until
after the episode aired, so they couldn't have copied my design. It's probably just
a coincidence (great minds think alike).
The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."
Hij die zijn kind benzine voert moet niet roken als het boert.
Love you MyIng
The quest for poi perfection may bring much enlightenment...
and burns
OOUUUUCCCHHHHIIIEEEEE!!!!!!!!!
ohmygodlaserbeamspewpewpew!
my state of mind creates my world
Written by: *robyn*
the possibilities if one did have a solar death ray are endless....
my state of mind creates my world
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