Just saw this on Yahoo!: Apparently, the Vdara Hotel (you suppose that spelling is intentional?) has a minor design flaw: When the sun hits its largely glass facade at a certain angle, people on the ground get burnt to a crisp.
OK, no one's actually been burnt to a crisp yet, but plastic has been melted and hair has been singed.
Didn't Mythbusters do a story about something like this? We seem to recall they met with little success in attempting to construct a death ray out of mirrors, but it seems that the technology exists. The military possibilities demand exploration. We imagine a string of Vdara Hotels built along the Iranian border would prove a major deterrent to any of Ahmadinejad's more grandiose martial plans.
That seems like a design flaw.
ReplyDeleteOnly if the designers DIDN'T want their building to be a semi-lethal weapon.
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