John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 – April 15, 1912) was an American business magnate, real estate developer, investor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family.
Probably explains why the description of the book sounds like American power fantasy. Interesting to hear of sci-fi from so long ago though.
The Discovery Channel series “MythBusters” featured episodes in 2004, 2006 and 2010 testing out scenarios for the purported death ray but ultimately declared the legend to be a myth when each test failed to light a wooden boat on fire. In 2005, a class of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, inspired by the show’s first episode, was able to ignite a wooden boat once with a similar technique to Sener’s on a larger scale, but failed on a second attempt.
Sener said he believes that combining MIT’s findings with his own, the data could suggest the death ray was plausible, and Archimedes likely could have used the sun’s rays with large mirrors to cause combustion. But the technology may not work in cold temperatures or cloudy weather, and the sea’s impact on the ships’ motion affects the practicality of this device, he added in his paper.
Why would I click an article the only thing about which you have disclosed is that it will make me mad?
All equal I'd as soon not seek that out and the premise about learning more about The Matrix rings hollow because unless the article's author (who—like everything else about the piece—is not revealed in the post) is Bane Hooked Up to pregnant horse pee, they don't understand The Matrix better than I do.
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