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    2 days ago

    My bad, I forgot there were two episodes on this, I think maybe you only saw the first one or parts of it. There was a huge wooden structure with hundreds of mirrors arranged in a concave shape that almost perfectly aligned all mirrors’ reflections into one spot and absolutely nothing happened. Even with perfect mirrors and modern construction tools and techniques we couldn’t recreate it.

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        2 days ago

        It is one of my favorite quotes from the entire series. Never before has a man painted a picture of himself as vivid as Jamie did when he delivered this line.

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      Ah, that could be. Probably due to responses to their first one where they had a bunch of college students holding little mirrors and trying to aim them, and I’ve never watched Mythbusters regularly.