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Originally Posted by john70t

London skyscraper’s ‘deathray’ reflection is melting cars, burning businesses, but also cooking eggs | National Post
"the air temperature in the concentrated beam, reached 69.8C, which in old money is 158F."

Funny article, I wonder how much is true. I'd read the article about the building melting parts of a jaguar.

Melted Jag




It's not really that hard to imagine why they didn't discover the phenomenon during whatever testing/discovery phase they had. What are the odds of most folks thinking about the fact that the sun changes position in the sky (sometimes very quickly making a big difference) other than just east to west? I'm often reminded because the setting sun sometimes hammers me at work, but only a couple of times a year. The rest of the year, it sets behind one of two buildings.