The mile wide mirror would be able to focus the power of the sun onto a target on Earth
The Incredible Nazi Plans For A Mile-Wide 'Sun Gun' To Fry Cities From Space -- Daily Mail
* Giant space mirror would have concentrated the sun's rays on Earth
* German army would use it to 'burn enemy cities' or 'boil part of an ocean'
* Would also contain a manned space station complete with gardens
It sounds like something only a Bond villain would propose, but the Nazis planned a mile-wide ‘space gun’ powered by the sun.
The giant mirror could be used to focus the sun on a target – like the magnifying glasses used by children to create fire.
A long-forgotten article from Life magazine in 1945 revealed how ‘US Army technical experts came up with the astonishing fact that German scientists had seriously planned to build a “sun gun”’.
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My Comment: Forget about the problems in putting such a "weapon" in space .... but would such a weapon work?
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