TERRIBLE NEWS!

ApathyApathy
edited July 18 in For SCIENCE
From the Solar Deathray site:

"June 26, 2006: I'm mothballing the Solar Death Ray.
It's been a great year and a half: over a million
visitors and more than 5000 e-mailed suggestions.
I have other projects and responsibilities now and I
don't have the time to devote to destroying stuff and
updating the site on a regular basis"

This is a great loss for SCIENCE! on the internet.

Comments

  • HamelinHamelin
    edited July 2006
    Dear lord no! Now who will melt things for fun? My life is over!
  • stefstef
    edited July 2006
    Solar Death Ray will always melt things if you keep it in your heart! Also, you'll need to keep the sun in your heart. For safety, coat your heart with a flame-resistant lining.
  • ApathyApathy
    edited July 2006
    You might want to include some sort of pull-out drawer in your heart as well. So that when you melt things in it, you can clean up easily.
  • stefstef
    edited July 2006
    Good idea! Can you roast us some marshmallows in your heart, Hamelin? I'm kinda hungry.
  • ApathyApathy
    edited July 2006
    Maybe even improve on the design and get a rotisserie type deal going on in there at the same time.
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited July 2006
    I'm using WinHTTrack to download the site and forever enshrine it on my hard drive now!
  • ApathyApathy
    edited July 2006
    Will you then burn it onto a CD and jam it into your heart?

    Because that'd be pretty hardcore. Possibly even EXTREEEEME.
  • TheMachineTheMachine
    edited July 2006
    Did this website start after that MythBusters show?
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited July 2006
    This website was around before Mythbusters was a show.
  • jcjc
    edited July 2006
    Just pretend the website melted itself in a heroic self-sacrifice for SCIENCE!!
  • TheMachineTheMachine
    edited July 2006
    ferscience7jv.jpg
    (Originally, I was going to have a picture of a moonshine run, but this looks funnier.)
  • ApathyApathy
    edited July 2006
    Is that the random old film about guys who drive trucks that transport nitro-glycerine?

    Because that was one crappy old movie.
  • TheMachineTheMachine
    edited July 2006
    I dont know, I just googled "moonshine." :D
  • X'o'LoreX'o'Lore
    edited July 2006
    could any of us not build a solar death ray? Could not a new generation of solar powered rays of death not rise up to fulfill our need to see random stuff melted?
  • mariomario
    edited July 2006
    He should tie the Gravity Death Log to a rope and rig the Solar Death Ray to burn the rope, sending the Log careening downard into the Ray, so both go out in a spectacular blaze of glory.
  • ApathyApathy
    edited July 2006
    That would be a fitting end.

    Randomly adding large amounts of fireworks to the mix would help as well.
  • HamelinHamelin
    edited July 2006
    Soak the log in gas first, and drill out the center and fill it with gunpowder.
  • TheMachineTheMachine
    edited July 2006
    Flashpowder > Blackpowder. Unless you’re trying to make a mortar... a gasoline soaked mortar.
  • brucebruce
    edited July 2006
    Hamelin wrote:
    Soak the log in gas first, and drill out the center and fill it with gunpowder.

    You can't soak something in gas, as a gas doesn't flow. Now petrol, however, would work like a charm in that respect.

    Also: Why not launch the death ray at the sun? That would be a nice ironic death for it.
  • mariomario
    edited July 2006
    Petrol is referred to as gasoline in the US, or 'gas' for short.

    :tmyk:, yo.
  • geokogeoko
    edited July 2006
    Now that's what we in the US call getting served!!
  • Drooling IguanaDrooling Iguana
    edited July 2006
    I keep thinking this thread is about Futurama.
  • SerephelSerephel
    edited July 2006
    "Good news! It's a suppository!" That's one of my favorite Futurama lines.
  • BehemothBehemoth
    edited July 2006
    Night Lord wrote:
    You can't soak something in gas, as a gas doesn't flow. Now petrol, however, would work like a charm in that respect.

    Also: Why not launch the death ray at the sun? That would be a nice ironic death for it.

    Gases are fluid. Fluids flow. :tmyk:

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