On Saturday, researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Arizona set off for San Francisco bay to test if Archimedes' death ray could have been anything but a myth.
Jamie and Adam did that over a year ago:
Episode 16: : Ancient Death Ray, Skunk Cleaning, What Is Bulletproof?EDIT: I just read the whole article at the Guardian. Seems they're the one's behind the times. The MIT kids were working with Mythbusters; the report was filed this year for a show that aired last year. Memo to Guardian editor-in-chief: fire your science staff -- if they're reporting year-old science, they suck.
In this episode, Jamie and Adam reflect on one of the world's oldest urban legends — did the Greek scientist Archimedes set fire to a Roman fleet of ships using only mirrors and sunlight?
First aired Sept. 29 2004
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Unlike Mythbusters, they got their death ray to work. It was on Discovery Television.
Yeah, I saw a doco on a European group who'd investigated our Hellenic friend's (superbly-named) Death Ray, and they managed to set a boat alight without too much fuss. It was part of a series investigating ancient technology, so I got to see everyone's old favorite, the trebuchet. I want one so badly....
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