Sunlight Melting a Rock
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They revisited that episode with another with Obama as guest, but I never saw the follow up. I'd love to see this on a large scale take out a boat.
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You don't need the sound, the presenter has an irritating voice.
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They revisited that episode with another with Obama as guest, but I never saw the follow up. I'd love to see this on a large scale take out a boat.
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" — Hunter S. Thompson
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Haha, I love the Arduino, never looked for projects on CP for it though. Everything starts with a small model first. Scaling it up is the easy part, right?
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" — Hunter S. Thompson
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I think this is one of the largest solar furnaces; http://www.solarnavigator.net/spanish_solar_generating_station.htm[^]
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I want to see them weaponize that and shoot something down, just a kite or a drone,.. or hydrogen filled zeppelin.
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" — Hunter S. Thompson
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Haha, I love the Arduino, never looked for projects on CP for it though. Everything starts with a small model first. Scaling it up is the easy part, right?
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!" — Hunter S. Thompson
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I couldn't watch this video with the sound on (too quiet in my office to try that without getting caught and no headphones) but it was kind of cool even on mute: Melting a Rock with Sunlight[^]
The camera work was good. I couldn't spot the frikkin shark!
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And that's only a small yellow main series star. Replace it with a blue super giant star and earth would be inside. We probably can't immagine the energy such a star can emmit. But all is well as it is. Our little sun is very stable and has a life span of many billions of years.
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It is pretty cool (well hot), you know what i mean! There are plenty of other home made videos of the likes of these on you tube, search for solar furnace. I remember an episode of mythbusters where they set fire to a boat from a distance by using a bunch of mirrors. I have taken apart a bunch of old harddisks i had collected from over the years to get the highly reflective platters to build a solar furnace some time....maybe one day will actually get round to building it. After installing Solar Panels on my house and seeing how hot they get, wanted to up the anti a bit :)
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DaveAuld wrote:
I remember an episodetwo separate episodes of mythbusters where they set fire repeatedly attempted but ultimately failed on two separate occasions to set fire to a boat from a distance by using a bunch of mirrors.
ftfy :)
There is no failure only feedback
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DaveAuld wrote:
I remember an episodetwo separate episodes of mythbusters where they set fire repeatedly attempted but ultimately failed on two separate occasions to set fire to a boat from a distance by using a bunch of mirrors.
ftfy :)
There is no failure only feedback
Although it didn't go up fully in flames it did char the surface and give off smoke, and as they say there is no smoke without fire..... There's a link for that; http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/experiments/deathray/10_Mythbusters.html[^] :)
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Although it didn't go up fully in flames it did char the surface and give off smoke, and as they say there is no smoke without fire..... There's a link for that; http://web.mit.edu/2.009/www/experiments/deathray/10_Mythbusters.html[^] :)
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