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1. The test was carried out by TV science show Mythbusters.
2. They call themselves "Alaska Mythbusters," a nod to the popular television show.
3. They worry that the CIA quiz and its advertisements during MythBusters‘‘ and other cable shows with cult followings are too gimmicky.
4. For by tilting a kind of mirror toward the sun he concentrated the sun‘s beam upon it; and owing to the thickness and smoothness of the mirror he ignited the air from this beam and kindled a great flame, the whole of which he directed upon the ships that lay at anchor in the path of the fire, until he consumed them all." But Peter Rees, executive producer of MythBusters, the Discovery channel programme that set up the test, said the re–enactment showed the death ray was probably a myth.
5. The show‘s previous experiments have included covering someone in gold paint, a la Goldfinger, to test whether it causes death by skin asphyxiation (it doesn‘t) and dropping a penny from a great height to discover whether it would slice through a person on the ground (it wouldn‘t). A programme spokesman said: "The Mythbusters team have tested a lot of theories over the series, but this is the first time they‘ve discovered how to beat Sod‘s Law." Reader comments (0) No comments have so far been submitted.