Some guy used mirrors to create a [u]Solar Death Ray[/u].
Check out the [u]Target Gallery[/u]. Here’s the Marshmallow Peeps:
Boys and their toys. 
no ants???
(sorry…)
No ants, but there is a chocolate easter bunny…
Looking at this, I feel no compuntion about pointing out that there may not be ants now… but just wait a few.
Well, I do hope that my son doesn’t hear of this…
…there was enough trouble over the potato gun!
So, if he gets within 2 feet of you, you’re a gonner. Imagine if the Romans had put those on their shields. I think the Atlanteans did.
Tony
Good thing we deposed Saddam!
Oh, that thing is for wimps.
Wimpy, wussy, wuss wimps.
What you really want is a giant fresnel lens.
Seriously, if you can’t reduce a pile of coins to slag, you’re just not trying hard enough.
Caj
You had a potato gun too? Ours is still lurking somewhere around here!
My kid would really dig the solar death ray concept as well.
He also poses this question, and I’d love to know if any chiffgeeks can answer satisfactorily:
Why, in a world of Jedi who battle with light sabers, could you not deflect all blows by wearing mirror armor?
Depends on if you are talking about light-sabers or blasters. Light-sabers wouldn’t really be light. They’d be a controlled plasma discharge (and would cut throught the mirrored armour like butter). The blaster might reflect initially, but would cause the armour to superheat so quickly that it would melt, then evaporate, and then you’d start to melt/evaporate soon after.
djm
Oh, so it’s a misnomer then. They should be called Plasma-sabers.
Depends on if you are talking about light-sabers or blasters. Light-sabers wouldn’t really be light. They’d be a controlled plasma discharge (and would cut throught the mirrored armour like butter). The blaster might reflect initially, but would cause the armour to superheat so quickly that it would melt, then evaporate, and then you’d start to melt/evaporate soon after.
I always wondered why the sabers didn’t just pass through each other or flare up and destroy both combatants. Oh yeah, The Force. I forgot.
Tony
Since its all fiction, one must consider the effects of the words themselves as far as story-telling goes. “Light sabre” evokes a feeling of brightness, goodness, the correct side in a moral dilemma. “Plasma sabre” sounds technically cool for tech geeks, but carries no subtext, and does not evoke any emotional response. Delivery is 80% of good story-telling, and sci-fi is all about telling tall stories.
djm
Well, of course it’s not light…we already have the technology to make a stubby cylinder emit a beam of light.
Death ray? Hmmm…temptimg, but I’m still paying for my Vortex of Doom.
I feel bad. I’ve never made a potato gun. Sigh.
No tater gun but quite the animated avatar ye made.
I had a different kind of potato gun I had as a kid. I was always buying things from the little joke-catalog ads in the back of comic books. I like how on one part o the box it says “completely harmless” and on another, it says “choking hazard”
Wanderer, that kind of potato gun is extra cool too. We’ve had those.
But how does it shoot?
I’ve done some searching and it appears you need a propellent of some kind. I’m sort of reluctant to mess with flammable liquids that might blow me up.