Las Vegas Hotel's Accidental Death Ray
The Vdara, Las Vegas' newest and most prestigious - and also most empty and under-sold - building project has a little problem. Just a teensy one. Of SCORCHING DEATH.
You see, the glass in the window of the building's attractive curve happens to form a parabolic mirror. You may remember the power of the parabolic mirror from a "fan participation" episode of Mythbusters, where fans of the show built their own Greek weaponry.
You see, the glass in the window of the building's attractive curve happens to form a parabolic mirror. You may remember the power of the parabolic mirror from a "fan participation" episode of Mythbusters, where fans of the show built their own Greek weaponry.
The parabolic mirror is thought by some to be a weapon wielded by the ancient Greeks against seafaring enemies. The Mythbusters dubbed it the "Archimedes Death Ray." (N.B. at the end of the episode, they declared this myth "Busted.")
