the Nazi's Death Star
During the Nazi reign in Germany from 1933 to 1945 some very hi tech weaponry (for the time) was created, the Nazi's one idea Nazi physicists began to work on was launching a giant mirror into orbit.
The mirror, which they planned to design from about one million tons of metallic sodium, would burn cities to the ground, boil reservoirs, crisp people like bacon, kinda like the Ion cannon from the game Command & Conquer: Generals.
This so-called “sun gun” would be part of a space station 5,100 miles above Earth. “They calculated that the use of a huge reflector could produce enough heat, if focused on certain area, could make an ocean boil or burn up a city.”
The space station would be manned by Nazi spacemen with magnetic boots to help overcome weightlessness and most likely be powered by the sun (go figure).
The mirror itself was 100-meter-wide and would have been fitted at a point on the space station.
There are many obvious reasons this didn't come through, the closest the Nazi's got in space development was the V-2 rocket, 20,000 died of exhaustion making the ones fired at London that killed around 7,000 people!
Most of the German scientists moved to the US to continue their rocketry research. In addition to their work with US missile defense systems, many of the men went to work for the fledgling space program in the 1950s.
From this they developed the Saturn V, the engine which carried the Apollo astronauts into orbit for the moon missions of 1969-1972.
That being said the development would have been possible over a couple of decades had the Nazi's not been fighting a losing World War II by 1942!
The mirror, which they planned to design from about one million tons of metallic sodium, would burn cities to the ground, boil reservoirs, crisp people like bacon, kinda like the Ion cannon from the game Command & Conquer: Generals.
This so-called “sun gun” would be part of a space station 5,100 miles above Earth. “They calculated that the use of a huge reflector could produce enough heat, if focused on certain area, could make an ocean boil or burn up a city.”
The space station would be manned by Nazi spacemen with magnetic boots to help overcome weightlessness and most likely be powered by the sun (go figure).
The mirror itself was 100-meter-wide and would have been fitted at a point on the space station.
There are many obvious reasons this didn't come through, the closest the Nazi's got in space development was the V-2 rocket, 20,000 died of exhaustion making the ones fired at London that killed around 7,000 people!
Most of the German scientists moved to the US to continue their rocketry research. In addition to their work with US missile defense systems, many of the men went to work for the fledgling space program in the 1950s.
From this they developed the Saturn V, the engine which carried the Apollo astronauts into orbit for the moon missions of 1969-1972.
That being said the development would have been possible over a couple of decades had the Nazi's not been fighting a losing World War II by 1942!
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