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The Nazi Sun Gun: Remembering That Time When Hitler Wanted a Death Star
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- Опубліковано 13 кві 2021
- File this in the "we seriously can't believe this is real" category for MegaProjects.
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This sounds like something you'd take out in a Wolfenstein game.
Funny, because it WAS in Wolfenstein!
@@IshijimaKairo Oh wow! I actually had no idea!
The only thing I knew about Wolfenstein is that it sort of inspired Doom, which went on to cause the entire FPS genre as we know it.
@@Attaxalotl They were both created by the same people even.
@@IshijimaKairo Oh. That makes a lot of sense actually.
Also, Quake! lol
There's a documentary about the North Koreans attempt to build one. Fortunately they were thwarted by Pierce Brosnan in a very cool invisible Aston Martin.
If Syracuse's defending army utilized a death ray based off of solar power... Um... a sensible invader might attack them at night...?
Top comment😂😂
I believe In ancient times it was considered warfare especially attacks during night to be cowardish hence it was rare.
@@ernofnx The same might be said of burning an enemy's ships before they were able to engage.
Knowing an enemy's weakness has long been essential to success, has it not?
G'day,
Not really.
Night Attacks require very bright Moonlight.
Or Electric Torches & LED Headlamps, or Night Vision Gigglies...(!) to enable the partipating Officers to read their Maps before & during - and then to count the Survivors afterwards and so to calculate their Dead.
In the absence of
Artificial light...;
Only Losers fight,
At night...
Y'see...(?) !
Such is life.
Have a good one...
;-p
Ciao !
Just wait for a cloudy day.
One mirror to rule them all
One mirror to shine on them
One mirror to bring the sun
And in its light to fry them
7/10
Gandalf the White Supremacist
Rammstein tune plays " ...HIERRR KOMMT DIE SONNE...
@@user-ol5bj4dm2v Nazis weren't white supremacists.
They were GERMANIC supremacists that viewed everyone that didn't have 100% germanic D-N-A as trash
There is a plan to link some of the Shetland islands with tunnels. The Faeroe islands have 3 already. Linking North Atlantic islands with undersea tunnels has to be a Megaproject.
Sounds interesting, will look into it.
@@megaprojects9649 would you be interested in creating a Vid about The Thunderwell??
@@megaprojects9649 We should repurpose a mad man's idea, scale down this weapon of mass destruction, that's aimed down at Earth to vaporize cities, and create a smaller Lens Satellite aimed outward onto Solar Sails!😁✌
Hitler: "Ve shall burn you wif da sun!"
Merca: We'll make our own sun.
Just think: if the Manhattan project had produced the atom bomb sooner they could’ve saved Hitler the expense of a bullet.
imagine comparing a fucking star to
a pitiful bomb
@@andrewCNC905 A nuclear bomb is kind of like a star for a very short period of time tbh. At detonation it becomes hotter than the core of our sun and starts a fusion reaction - which is what happens in stars
fuck yeah
@@Zindawg02 fusion vs fission, tomato tomato i guess
1:30 - Chapter 1 - Nazi Weapons
2:35 - Chapter 2 - Archimedes & the death ray
5:25 - Chapter 3 - A dark shadow appears
6:25 - Chapter 4 - The space station
8:30 - Chapter 5 - The sun gun
9:25 - Chapter 6 - Could have it worked ?
10:00 - Chapter 7 - Znamya 2
11:10 - Chapter 8 - A mirror to enslave them all
Your the real Hero Gothem needs.
I have no idea who you are, or why you spend time doing this. But you are clearly an absolute legend.
Somebody wants a job
Chapter 9 stellasers
Chapter 10 take the solar system apart to make a Nicoll-Dyson beam to threaten any aliens for a bunch of light years with destruction if they don’t dye their hair blond and start using weird symbols.
Chapter 10 profit???
Edit: Also see Issac Arthur’s channel for someone who doesn’t think small like that Hitler fella
@@megaprojects9649 This dude is like the more bookish cousin who tallies the memes on Business Blaze.
"You see that thing in the sky? Make it a gun"
-some SS general, probably
Pretty much every general sees something and thinks it how can it be used to kill people
when Pervitin hit you too hard
U.S.A. in 1945: we did it, we're going to call it a nuclear bomb😎👍
(Team america theme starts playing)
Florida be like: LAUNCH THE TACTICAL BALLISTIC ALLIGATOR
Also imagin what would have happened, if someone told the Nazis what a Dyson swarm is 😂
Everybody gangsta till Nazis start roasting us like ants
This is fake as shit
I learned about this concept of a satellite mirror deathray in a documentary called Die Another Day
you can learn more about the space nazis in the documentary "iron sky"
@@bullzebub I'd like the Götterdämmerung ship to be discussed next on this channel.
Not _Diamonds are Forever_ ?
@victor bruun Goldeneye used EMP's.
@@wwoods66 You're right but I grew up with Pierce Brosnan as Bond so Die Another Day was more fresh in my mind.
"Hitler Wanted a Death Star"
"Its more Star trek"
Im triggered beyond what words can describe.
They were brainstorming. That's how they came up with the buzz bomb and some of those wacky plane design we've seen. Werner von Braun was certain aiming higher than ballistic missiles as he developed the V2. On its first successful use he's said to have said "The rocket performed perfectly. It just came down on the wrong planet."
They were brainstorming, yes. But on meth
Nobody:
Hitler: "The sun is a deadly laser!"
The sun has killed lots of people, even without being weaponized.
And there will be no blanket🤣🤣🤣
@@Schumanizeda big mirror: face your own light
"If i was to tell you Adolf Hitler was the type of child that used to burn insects with magnifying glasses, would you be surprised?" - YES! I would be surprised. Hitler was very fond of animals and a champion for animal rights.
if that name sound vaguely familiar to you, you get zero points because Archimedes is super super important and famous lol XD
You mean the death laser from the sky in Fallout New Vegas 😂
He would screw you..
@@adamlewellen5081 LOLIMON! (Laughing Out Loud In [the] Middle Of [the] Night!) Maybe this will make viewers think about it and get the reference. Good one!
Archimedes did not use mirrors to set ships on fire. He used mirrors to heat copper pipes up which had munitions plugging the one end and then they plunged in water which would violently vaporize, expand and cause the munitions to be accelerated down pipe.
He made steam cannons that were heated by focusing the sun.
www.livescience.com/8383-study-archimedes-set-roman-ships-afire-cannons.html
@@adamlewellen5081 clever. Archimedes screws still popular in agri irrigation
It was also a plot point in Die Another Day.
That was the worst bond film ever imo!
I give you Icarus!
@@cfcblue8 Hammer of Dawn 2.0
It sounds like something from a Wolfenstein game.
@@Ukbrummie Not even close to that accolade XD.
(literally every film since was worse)
Need a video on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel 17.6 miles long, 12 miles (19 km) of trestle, two one-mile-long (1.6 km) tunnels, four artificial islands, four high-level bridges, approximately two miles (3.2 km) of causeway, and 5.5 miles (8.9 km) of northeast and southwest approach roads crossing the Chesapeake Bay and is one of the 7 engineering wonders of the modern world.
As someone who grew up seeing the bay bridge out my back window i concur
And 100% absolutely terrifying to drive across when you have a fear of the see
The best is that when you are in the middle of the bridge in even slightly poor weather you cannot see land in either direction.
@@RCAvhstape I’ve got to say when I was little waking up from an overnight fishing trip on the pier that’s off of one of the islands to that sea breeze and a beautiful sunrise, one of my favorite memories as a kid.
The pier should be reopening in 2022 so I’ll finally be able to take my kids out there since we recently moved back to the area.
Megaproject suggestion: The Red River Floodway - it was the second largest earth moving project ever at the time (completed in 1968, larger than the Suez Canal, only the Panama Canal was larger). The Red River runs north along the very flat basin of what was once Lake Agassiz, which means spring meltwater often drains into still frozen water, ice complicates everything. On the same river the US chose not to build a floodway in Grand Forks resulting in tragic flooding and fires there in 1997 (Hell and High Water as they called it).
It cost ~$500,000 in today's dollars and saved $40 billion in flood damage so far. And the best part -------- it was completed on time and under budget! That alone should qualify it as a stand out in this series ;).
So this is where Gustaf Graves learned how to build and weaponized Icarus
Simon. Take a look at Rolls Royce merlin, figure it all out and toss a video. Don't forget to enumerate the number of crafts this thing went into.
Including the up until that point mediocre P51 Mustang.
I'll take a look into it :)
Some guy built a car in the 1970s that was powered by a Rolls Royce Merlin. And slapped a Rolls Royce grill and Spirit of Extacy on it (before he was sued by Rolls Royce).
Dont big it up too much. The RR Merlin was what was available at the time, it was OK, but not the be all and end all. In civil service after the war, it was a complete dog whose servicing requirements were way above the competing American big radials. Its only virtue at that time was the massive numbers available thanks to government funded production during a time of national emergency.
Elon Musk pulls out his phone, rings a secret number and says. "Order 66"
Suddenly all the Starlink satellites move together and join up into a giant Sun Ray Gun.
I absolutely love Marvin the Martian and his appearance here, lol
The music was pleasingly cheerful for such a crazy topic
Just call him Prometheus.
@@bigchunk1 q⁰
"You're not a dish. You're a man."
Exactly. Bring on the Death Star.
Love the use clown-inspired music for the "Was it possible" section.
When was this I need to know
Edit: 9:20
Toward the end.
8:00 they wanted to build the station out of *SODIUM METAL* ?
sounds like a great idea
"Lick a banana; it tastes like a banana!
Lick a blueberry; it tastes like a blueberry!
Lick a Nazi space station; it tastes like salt!"
...sounds about right.
I'm sending a link to my brother for this video. I have been telling him for 20 years that this was a real concept and he never believed me.
I don;t blame him
SOme of the things from Bias proganda rubbish
Whats next Nazi made stargate
@@ahsenkhan5386 I suppose, he didn't believe the the Ratte was a real concept ethier untill I showed him a textbook that had technical drawings and specifications. I couldn't find a book that had details of the Sun Gun that wasn't filled the nonsense occult/magic stuff the Third Reich wasn't actually involved with (kills the credibility for a mental weapon concept when the next page over says they also tried to summon demons to make their armies invincible).
Yes..a UA-cam video is perfect proof, if only UA-cam had existed forever...... we'd be so advanced by now🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@stevenbenicarti4135 Sure, not eveything on UA-cam is factual accurate, but Simon Whistler's channels have a load of writers who actually bother to fact check. Plus if a detail is suspect he makes it clear that's the case.
it is not a farfeched idea to say that the roswell debris could have been from some failed nazi project.....
The Sun Gun sounds like a plan thought up by Dr. Evil (Austin Powers' nemesis/long lost brother).
I know Simon, you've never watched any film in the Austin Powers' franchise.😉🧐
It sounds like something a Bond villain would d... oh wait, never mind. lol
@@TalesOfWar The James Bond films, "Diamonds Are Forever" and "Die Another Day".
With the Archimedes 'death ray' people never mention how unpleasant it would to be the crew on the ship and just focus on whether the light could start fires. Imagine trying to put out fires caused by flaming arrows, if you get temporary blindness whenever you look vaguely in the direction of the place you're attacking. I could imagine the story starting when some soldiers realised they could sort of reflect the sun off their shields and used it to dazzle the crew of a nearby enemy ship. The ship was then successfully burned using more conventional means.
A way to counter that weapon: put a massive amount of reflective material on the ground and say, “right back at ya, you sun of a gun!”
Reminds me of the rods from God weapon. Gravity powered pillars of tungsten in space that hit targets with the power of a nuke.
Difference is, those actually work.
Be pretty expensive to put the projectiles into orbit!
@@Smokeyr67 Obscenely expensive, that's the main reason they don't exist.
Love to see a Megaprojects on the Bagger 288. That thing is/was a monster!
I love how your boi with the blaze comes out from time to time now its mostly simon but here and there you see him😂
6:11 Hmm nazis, who we're up to no good
Started making kristallnacht in my neighbourhood
I got in one little putsch and my mom got scared
And said, you're moving with your aunty and uncle in Belgrade
The “Walkie Talkie” skyscraper at Fenchurch Street in London proves that it works. “Mythbusters” are unfortunately not legit anymore.
To be fair, they were using a bronze disc, not a poorly designed window.
One of the hotel/casinos in Las Vegas had (or maybe still has) the same problem. They had to essentially cordon off a large area in front of it every day.
Perhaps the salvaging of the Costa Concordia would make for a good mega project. Or if it isn't long enough; a side projects on the largest salvage operations in history. I'd love to see either.
I am not interested in germans.
Uh what?
@@inquisitorgunnar3451 u know what I mean
@@bobcatthekittykat1075no, i don't. Are you drunk?
@@inquisitorgunnar3451 I know its u. U r using the word Concordia
The amount of friendly fire with this gun had it worked would have been insane. They'd need to some way to cover the mirror as it was traversing as otherwise it'd be zapping everything around the target as well as the target as soon as the sun was even near the right position.
Granted I'm sure the Nazi's weren't really that bothered about friendly fire, but it'd get tiresome having rebuild have a conquered country because you zap'd one rebellious town.
2:54 You don’t displace a weight of liquid equal to the weight of the object being submerged. The VOLUME is displaced.
You can figure out weight easily without displacement.
The Nazis = "reach for the highest branch, you'll get the bottom branch. Reach for the stars, you'll get to the top branch."
I would love to see you guys cover the Puget Sound artillery defenses from ww1 and ww2, they were started at the tail end of the 19th century to protect the Bremerton Naval shipyard, and other naval assets in the region, they cost over $220 million dollars in today's money, but never saw combat. It's a really interesting story and one I encourage anyone to look into
6:29 Nope, a German V2 reached the Karman line on october 3rd, 1942, 118miles, to be precise.
Americas first manned spacemission (mercury 7) just reached 116miles.
Sputnik was the first man made object to reach orbit. That's probably what you meant. Orbit.
I know it's grammarnazi-ish but i hope i could supply you with a fun fact :D
Guten Tag.
Edit: 8:15 Wrong, The Wernherr von Braun design buero had plans for a multi stage rocket during wartime. They knew the physics and what to do. The Rocket-equation was out for a few decades at this point.
The price maybe was too low. But just for the launch, i'd say it's not far away from the truth. Also keep in mind they were useing slave labour from camps.
They were not humanitarians or even good people, they were just very good engineers who didn't talk shit. I think this is evident by now. You can take their words serisouly.
Great vid Simon! Been a huge fan for years keep up all the great work. Was this project ludicrously brilliant or brilliantly ludicrous.
1:54 "left, _riech_ and center"
Had an advert pop up for the far right Mr Fox running for mayor of London, where his last words were: "I don't care!"
Then Simon cut back in with the words "With the rise of fascism!"
I think the algorithm has a great sense of irony♥️
That’s very funny
@@tomvandijk9706 Maybe it's the first signs of a smirking A.I. ghost in the machine!?
This sounds like something Mr. Burns would come up with on the Simpsons.
waiting for a megaprojects video of the Bismark and tirpitz that were real weapons
As for the Archimedes death ray, I think it may have been a possibility when you take into account that building in london, the Walkie Talkie, that was melting car bodies with reflected sun. SO if a building can melt car parts I am sure they could have set fire to wood.
Mega Project suggestions: Benban Solar Park, Aswan High Dam, Bar Lev Line and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
Cue title music..."Diamonds are forever...they are all I need to please me...they can stimulate and tease me..."
10:14 oh man, you just solved a weird mystery I've had since 2nd grade. My teacher told our class about this and encouraged us to get up early in the morning to look for this 2nd moon of light. We're in Canada, so no wonder i didnt see anything 😆
teacher: what does your father do?
simon's kid :ummmhh hes a youtuber and has like 1 billion channels
Archimedes was calculating Pi i just eat... Pi
Nazi-Weapon-Video suggestion: horten 229 (stealth fighter), keep up those great videos :D
Now that's truly Sun Tzu's art of war.
Hey Simon, we need more snacks in the office. We ran out, and I don't wanna deal with trying to take Danny's shrooms. You still haven't put my bullwhip back by the way... Im starting to think you don't want me secretly living in your empty office...
Giant mirror in space revisited? I seem to remember an article in maybe popular mechanics back in the 70s of a proposal to build a giant mirror in space. This is during the Vietnam war era. The idea of this giant mirror was to illuminate the battlefield much brighter than moonlight.
The mirror would be manufactured or built out of mylar reflective material. (Think Echo satellite). The mirror diameter would be about 1/4 of a mile. I never quite understood of how this thing would be steered.
I vaguely remember that article. _IF_ memory is serving me right, there was supposed to be a relatively lightweight aluminum ring around the edge of the mirror with small rockets to steer it.
@@michiganengineer8621 Yes, does sound about right.
I never considered Hitler to be fun enough to be a bond villain
Hitler: plans space-based weapon to rain down destruction using a death ray.
George Lucas: Write that down, write that down!
Well, they regularly have solar plants that use heliostats aimed at a central central focus like "power towers". It just takes a certain amount of coordination.
The Archimedes death ray.
Ancient Aliens: It was aliens.
He has done it again, another channel.
Absolute Madlad...
7:58 They may have been unable to calculate the cost because their accountants were 'unavailable'.
Not a war vehicle, device, etc. but do a video on the prelude FLNG ship. 1600ft long and $10-$13 billion US price tag. When they connected the 8th chain to the seabed, they considered it “storm safe.” There are 16 chains...
I think the planned orbital altitude is wrong...
The altitude you said is “higher” than the moons apogee
What a sick idea. Could there be a sun gun up there? Look at all the random wildfires today!
“Considered by reasonable individuals...”
An adjective I REALLY would not have applied to Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler, or Goering. 😆
Why would you want to make it out of metallic sodium though? Here on earth it's so reactive that it may combust spontaneously, especially if there's a lot of moisture. But it's not because there's no air in space to oxidize it that it suddenly becomes a good building material. It may be quite lightweight but it's also so soft you could cut it with a butterknife, and its melting temperature is so low that the side facing the sun easily exceeds that.
Imagine if that drive to dominate was flipped to help benefit all life on and beyond earth...where would we be today?
Sup Fact Boy, you gotta do a MegaProjects video on the A-10 Thunderbolt II, aka the "Warthog"
Sorry, but it really isn‘t a megaproject. It is an awesome plane and a very capable weapon system, but it was a cheap solution and it was never a game changer in a war.
But it be something for „today I found our“ about the freakishly large main gun on the A-10.
"Ludicrously brilliant"
or
"Brilliantly ludicrous"
Imagine something like this being used to start wildfires...
You could target every dry forest in the US on the same day, starting a thousand fires in each, wildfire response is economically taxing and often requires backup from other towns.
It becomes much scarier when you think of the damage a few natural/accidental fires have done to Australia and California, now picture those fires being used as a weapon of war.
Start the fires on invasion day to cause chaos in the enemy's territory, they should burn out before your own troops reach them, plus it clears massive areas of forest so it's more difficult for defenders to lie in ambush.
the V-2 did actually get to space, the Karman line starts at 100 kilometres above earth, and the V-2 reached 174.6 kilometres altitude in 1944.
Day 1 of asking for a video of the horseshoe curve railway in Pennsylvania it and the town played a big role in ww2 and some say it was on Hitlers list to destroy
I mean if they ended up controlling much more land and much more resources and used slave labor they probably could have made it fairly cheap in regards to space age technology pricing especially just having the resources and labor force on hand at next to no cost but they also would have to still fight a war so with war costs who knows
Ok so im a American so you can prolly imagine me attempting to explain to my friends how to say Gewehr. The easiest way i have found is say the words GIVE AIR with a German accent
Brilliant
As long as there are no transmission involved, everything is fine
I remember reading a story proposal from Lester Dent about using such a device for a Doc Savage villain's weapon in one story, it came with a short outline of the early phase of the story and getting Doc involved in it. I think the proposal was from the 30s.
A member of Von Braun's team, Kraft Ehricke, championed his "Lunetta" and "Solletta" concepts for just such orbiting mirrors for illumination of northern latitudes in winter in the Sixties and Seventies.
Re Archimedes: He discovered two related concepts- a floating object displaces its mass in (water), a sunk object displaces its volume in (water). The latter let him determines whether the mass of gold in the kings crown had been diluted with lesser metals. The crown had the tight mass for the purported gold, but submerging if let the true volume be measured and density of the material calculated (mass per unit volume). This let Archimedes compare density of pure gold with density of the suspect crown
On the other hand, British radar research was started by an enquiry as to wether a death ray was possible.
Hitler: Hmm, what if...
German Scientist: Hold my bier!!
I got the fresh prince of Belair song in my head when you said you were up to no good.
its like a particle cannon on Generals zero hour 🤣🤣🤣
People overlook, that ray-guns, that reach the ground from low earth orbit, must deliver more energy, than the largest nuclear bombs, due to inverse-square-laws and atmospheric scattering.
BUT these rays are (in fiction) not fired for 1 second, but usually fired for minutes, so its 100 continuous largest nuclear bombs in terms of explosive energy.
luckily, this would require cold-fusion to be feasible to be even miniaturized enough to be placed in earth orbit. and this is why it is not done. (low efficiency, low precision)
The main issue here is, that the upper atmosphere is boiled off from this, and the radius of blast-damage is huge, not just city-sized, but very quickly reaches nation-sized scales. This dwarfs any global-dimming fallout-scenario and would trigger some mass starvation/extinctions.
Assuming that WW2 would not have interrupted things, it would have taken them until the mid 1950s to develop all the relevant technologies and to build it.
1970 at least. Remember, we didn't even have Skylab until like 1972.
@@dsnodgrass4843 That's because WW2 came along and stopped all relevant research. And then throughout the 1950s both the u.s. and the u.s.s.r. had to start from nothing and do a lot of work just to catch up to where the germans were in their rocket science in 1940. Skylab is the result of everything having been restarted a decade later. And even then, the u.s. didn't initially want to spend much on expensive proposals from a german scientist.
So again, had WW2 not come along (and had it been a high-priority project), it would have taken them until the mid 50s.
Attention Earthlings: "Begs the question" doesn't mean what you think it means.
Simon please do the Noord/Zuid-Lijn
4:30 aren't there solar farms that use mirrors to focus sunlight at a point on a tower to generate heat, for steam, to turn a turbine? Its a deathray panopticon
There is a rumor floating around based on CONTRACTS and the fact that PG&E is now bankrupt, plus specifications papers that the electric company had contracts with a company that had SOLAR panels either satellite based (or some surmise more likely helium balloon based) which converted the rays to microwaves up above the cloud layers, then beamed them supposedly to collectors in the desert. Something went wrong and instead of steadily and safely simply converting the microwaves to safe power nicely conducted along power lines like normal for some reason the new electric power source set off smart meters causing a couple of years worth of house and business fires. Notably in Butte County and town of Paradise, Novato, CA, Napa CA etc. Not once, but sometimes twice. Which meant people collected on their insurance, rebuilt and had it happen again. Insurance refusing to pay out the second similar occurrence. And a huge spike in homelessness. And PG&E now bankrupt from lawsuits. Gee, how similar to a death ray can you get? People died in their homes!!!
Huh, this reminds me of similar satellite weapons from the James Bond movies, "Diamonds Are Forever" and "Die Another Day".
Hey Simon, when talking about Archimedes, you said the weight of an object when it's the mass of an object that can be measured by water displacement. Small but important error. Good video nonetheless, well done!
I was wondering if I herd that correctly
I feel like a good intuition to understand this is to think about an object being submerged in water in zero/low gravity. It still displaces the same volume of water, but the weight being displaced is very different
This is the real reason Elon Musk has his own rockets, he's secretly building a death ray to enslave humanity.
I am currently watching this while the Imperial March is playing and eating some wafers.
If the Nyazis had developed and built the sun gun, it would have been a huge boon to the allied war effort, even more than if they'd put the Maus and Ratte into production. What Dolfie spent gigantic amounts of resources desperately needed elsewhere to create, they could then destroy at just a fraction of a fraction of the cost. After all, if they got all the parts up there by rocket, then just delivering an explosive warhead to the same height would be easy.
And I thought the file of "Nazis are desperate and are giving anyone who said they can build a weapon to still win the war" could not get any bigger.
To be fair this was only one of many far fetched concepts the Germans were cooking up in those days. There was the "Sanger Silverbird", which was a concept for a suborbital bomber which would launch into space at near-orbital speeds and skip glide around the planet once before landing back in Europe, dropping radiological bombs on America as it passed overheard at about Mach 20. Then there was the idea to make an underwater launcher for V2 missiles which would be towed within range of a target by a U boat, effectively making the first ever ballistic missile submarine. And of course the guy who invented that V2 rocket had a crazy idea to use his rockets to land men on the Moon, but that was just crazy, right? I mean he would never find anyone who'd provide him with the funding and support to make that actually happen now, would he? (sound of Saturn V engines igniting...)
"to build a series of mirrors but that's even more ridiculous" says the channel that presented the intergalactic solar panel system.
Wow, I remember something about this, but I had forgotten technical details of it. It could have taken mastery of outer space capable rockets to just send into orbit the parts for it and a crew to operate it even?.
6:29 So, this is obviously spread around a lot because generally, why give Nazis credit for anything but the Nazis actually launched the first man made object into space. There are two definitions for what we consider space and depending on which definition you go with, only changes the year in which the Nazis did it. The Nazis put a V2 rocket past NASA's definition of space on October 3rd 1942 and put a rocket past the Kármán line on June 22nd 1944. Sputnik was not the first man made object in space.
Was about to comment this, glad someone also spotted the mistake.
Archimedes also built a claw on a long lever that 'grabbed' Roman ships right out of the water and broke them up... I wouldn't discount that maybe... just maybe he made a 'death ray'...
Next question for me what have been possible to take down the space Station by Building an equal size mirror on the Ground and direct/reflect the sum beam back up ?