Nazi Sun Gun

Learn about the Nazi Sun Gun in this quick history lesson. This weapon was a futuristic concept during WWII, but never became a reality. #shorts #fyp #wwii #history

[@2cino59]

~~THE SUN IS A DEADLY LAZER~~

[@angusmacchesney5810]

~not anymore there’s a blanket~

[@BrianMarcus-nz7cs]

While it lasts 😮​@@angusmacchesney5810

[@FuhqEwe]

🎶

[@mr.masquer]

FUCK I READ THAT IN THE VOICE HE USED HAHA

[@hamzaalikhan9932]

😂😂😂

[@keikei2942]

Least insane wunderwaffe

[@jalapenoprince]

Fr 😭

[@Flesh_Wizard]

Comically large mirror 💀

[@zardozimp]

It's on the moon and aimed at Florida apparently...

[@javijavi8976]

I live in Florida and im sitting outside rn I agree

[@tylerclayton6081]

@@javijavi8976 Florida only gets up to 30 to 35 degrees Celsius. India and the Middle East can get up to 53 degrees Celsius, or 127 Fahrenheit

[@tripsaplenty1227]

I wish, that would improve America.

[@revilsanjiani146]

Can we move it to California

[@topphatt1312]

@@UGAfan1227yeah but Americans won’t know because they don’t know Celsius lol

[@brainflash1]

Turns out the North Koreans got to it first, but thankfully James Bond and Halle Berry broke it before it could finish burning through the 38th Parallel.

[@robertopalomino4604]

😂😂 a gentleman of culture

[@Gelb33]

Her codename is Jinx and now you blew her cover

[@thestanleys3657]

Sounds like a contraption Dr Evil from Austin Powers would make in one of his diabolical schemes

[@sar4806]

They should call it the Alan Parsons Project

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

Or Dave the Octopus.

[@seanhoey5939]

Don’t let the crabs and lobsters hear about this weapon. They’ll seek revenge for their fallen brethren

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

Who would think you’re referring to the burning? It’s obvious.

[@seanhoey5939]

@@KILLER.KNIGHT fair point

[@starkiler13]

Wolfenstein 💀

[@Machoman50ta]

Yes child before the game that was my grandpappys last name in ww2 fought against them Russians in 1941 never forget anyways I was going to say if I make a pipe big enough with a mirror inside aim it at the sun the reflection was cause the earth to melt where ever pointed

[@swordsnspearguy5945]

honestly sometimes it still surprises me how some of the wonder weapons planed completely sound like something coming out of a Saturday morning villian of the week's mind

[@joshuawells835]

Anyone else getting Death Star vibes?

[@user-yx8em4rw2t]

Yes me

[@stephensheridan1279]

More like Sun Crusher vibes!😏

[@Oh-God-Of-All-Creation]

Death star has sungun vibes

[@JoshuaC923]

That's no moon

[@sasin2715]

"mein fuhrer we are losing every battle" "but rocket plane go swoosh and sonnengewehr go bzzzzzzzz"

[@christopherbanks4652]

BOIL ZE SUNWATER

[@zanthrax6762]

Animation shows a ten thousand kilometer wide lens. Narration is saying 100 meter.

[@default179]

Cool

[@williamED15]

No shit. Because the scale required to show a 100m object outside the atmosphere of the earth means you couldn't see it. It's why they're verbally explained it 100m. Are you stupid?

[@carnifex2005]

One German said 100 meters but different Germans said 10 km in size. Listening comprehension is fun!

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

🤦🏻‍♂️

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

🤦🏻‍♂️

[@cjthegood]

"Here comes the sun" ☀️😁

[@FLMKane]

Doo Doo Doo doo

[@Ba_rock0bama]

Hear comes the son It's a nightmare 💀💀

[@robertbeier5521]

If you send the plans to my guy Dr.Heinz Doofenschmirtz he could get it up by tomorrow…

[@alexanderlehigh]

Along with a self-destruct button somewhere on it…

[@iainmair485]

Every kid since the invention of the magnifying glass has been burning ants in the very same way, Oberth did not think this up.

[@KILLER.KNIGHT]

☠️

[@janitorizamped]

Oberth invented the first magnifying glass as a prototype

[@iainmair485]

@@janitorizamped Roger Bacon. It always helps to know a bit about a subject before blindly shooting your mouth off. Muppet.

[@unbendedurchin1821]

Germans were renowned at physics and like 90 percent of physics awards go to them. He worked out the equations and realized intensity lens and light relationship within them to then create a lens gun

[@DeHerg]

🎵Where that sun comes down, that's not my department, says Wernher von Braun🎵

[@aquila4228]

“It’s a space station”

[@jontehdon]

Everybody gangsta til the sun starts speaking German

[@nathanielcowan3971]

Remember kids, sunlight stacks

[@xIcyStarzz-yz7my]

Holy crap this is basically the sun simulator that China is working on, it even has the hexagons.

[@PaoloCavallaro-yf5ly]

bro designed the death star during WWII 💀

[@smolkek5752]

One could say it's a sun of a gun

[@thinkordie7292]

Every Bond movie starring Connery, Moore, and Brosnan. 👏🏾👏🏾 Excellent work 👏🏾

[@brokenbridge6316]

What a crazy idea WWII Germans had

[@erhanozaydin853]

Go on and make Archimedes proud guys!

[@kaybevang536]

I wonder if this is an inspiration of the deathstar

[@ernstschmidt4725]

tbh the realization that it could be done with a microsatellite constellation left me shook

[@LordWyatt]

OG Death Star

[@bullettime8760]

what in the Wolfenstein, did I just watch?

[@supportpossum5672]

50-100 years is a crazy accurate prediction

[@fenilkheni9494]

Nahh it ain't. I am currently lazy to write but 1960 tech could do it easily. Need computers of size less then used on Apollo, and need rocket smaller then saturn 5.

[@supportpossum5672]

@@fenilkheni9494 Yeah it was theoretically possible back then, but it wouldve been the cutting edge of cutting edge. Right about now you could pretty much do it with one determined guy starting a company

[@ekij133]

Obviously it depends on how tightly focused it it on Earth (how big a target you want to hit all at once) but you could make one with a _much_ smaller reflector than 9km2. The "lots of little ones" idea is much better as one big reflector risks burning an unintended path towards and away from the intended target (the little ones can all come from different directions to minimise unintended frying)

[@MercenaryX10A]

So Starlink gun, gotcha.

[@user-fy3ez8pw1v]

I was just about to say sounds like starlink 🤦‍♂️😂😂

[@Leonardo_33]

"that lucky old sun"

[@AlterRed]

There’s only place for one sun weapon on Earth for now

[@Flesh_Wizard]

American weapon: nuke Nazi German weapon: comically large mirror

[@squishmellowspeaks6785]

Guessing that German scientist spent a little too much time frying ants with a magnifying glass when he was little

[@JonatasAdoM]

It's the deadly Greek mirrors from Mythbusters; but in space!

[@FLMKane]

*battle of Solomon PTSD intensifies*

[@alexandrosgolematis8160]

Now we have plenty of direct energy weapons

[@nicholasgallo3599]

Also some Nazi scientists claimed they could also have the sun gun working in 10-15 years which isn’t that far fetched considering the Nazi German advances in rocketry and science

[@mokarokas-1727]

It isn't far-fetched? Of course it is; enthusiastic scientists have always been hilariously lowballing estimated development time on such things, whether it's sunguns or hoverboards.

[@Rynewulf]

eh they claimed a lot of things that they never got working. We could argue many Germany scientists were either imbeciles propped up by party ideology or were deliberately just wasting time of dramatic sounding ideas.

[@xIcyStarzz-yz7my]

Any good or worthwhile Nazi scientists were absorbed by America and now happily work here for us.

[@johnnylr]

​@@mokarokas-172715 years would take them to 1960 which really isn't unbelievable if they weren't losing the war at that point (which is probably why they dreamt up this nonsense).

[@mokarokas-1727]

@@johnnylr Around the same time it was estimated we'd be settling the Moon and Mars by now. I think when scientists set up these "estimates" they're forgetting the add the asterisk "if we had unlimited funding, manpower and resources".

[@theprancingprussian]

It in reality would not be a death ray and be more like the heat of the equator

[@oliversherman2414]

A literal death star

[@tomashass9229]

Star Trek missed a opportunity with this.

[@ivory_clouds]

Ahhh good ol humans… they never cease to amaze me

[@johnbellissimo7594]

Could this or many smaller mirrors be used to increase solar panel production, or increase production(definitely not cost) efficiency?

[@nathanielcowan3971]

Radiation damage stacks

[@stevengreen9536]

Kinda reminds me of that heat ray from ancient times. Also i wonder if the sun gun was the inspiration for the James Bond movie Golden Eye?

[@arshiaarjomandi6279]

This is literally a Futurama gag

[@leibniz4455]

Nature: "The Sun is beneficial for photosynthesis, temperature, vision and so on" Humans: Laaazeerrrbeeeeammmm

[@theconductor2969]

you forgot radiation burns stop making nature sound super nice.

[@tomriley5790]

Difficult - it will heat the air up and that will convect and move and diffuse the beam, it might be practical but it's not as easy as it sounds... Plus in the time it takes to build it it's quite likely other countries will take it out...

[@babatundeojerinde]

These Nazis were actually really evil. Imagine getting access to such a weapon

[@scorpion9083]

A truly diabolical and crazy invention

[@Vekhh]

What in the time when they wouldnt want to destroy anything? How to set that mirror not to reflect sun on the earth?

[@Ozan_Dread]

Budget Death Star

[@MrBlipman]

Most reasonable German WW2 Idea

[@IberianCraftsman]

A Fresnel lens would work better

[@TheNorthie]

Every crazy design you see by the Nazis is some poor bastard that didn’t want to go to the front

[@가니메데]

We could make this with the technology we have now

[@antokarman2064]

I just watched a futurama episode where they tried to solve earth global warming by using this weapon to reflect the sunlight away before it enter the atmosphere. And then it turned into a space laser cause a little space debris knock it off angle, lol

[@ignasigarces1049]

Okay lets say they manage to actually built it somehow. How would they sent it to orbit? Okay lets say they got some rockets/propellers. And how do they manage to send orders to it and calculate where to burn? Don't think in 1940's transmission tech could be this advanced. This would be a challenge even today (tho achievable)

[@dweebus3698]

They thought of anything but reliable transmissions for their abominations

[@imallsoupedup]

I saw one of these in futurama

[@crmesson22k]

German laser beam.😅

[@sonofaquack6987]

Exterminatus?

[@UGNAvalon]

“50-100 yrs” _Carry the one, and…_ 1995-2045? 🤔 We got 19yrs to go!

[@FerghusCameron]

SUN GUNNN

[@koyyoung8673]

Who says there isn't something similar up there?

[@Sapphier4Dav]

Lets you rethink § big companies launching 1000sattelites each in Orbit for Internet uses. All with a solar sail which i guess could reflect sunlight.

[@skollgrimmson]

This won't work. Simply because amtosphere, metal junk and rotation cycles of earth and moon.

[@arminhergl5388]

Exactly, plus you would only get small time slots, when your target would be in sight with regards to your orbit. It's the same with spy satellites. Plus, how would this thing work when there are thick clouds above the target?

[@goodmusic4673]

ah yes another one who is to stupid to understand space

[@Thunder-54321]

@@arminhergl5388 any hypothetical weapon like this in the range of burning an entire city would have little issue with clouds, clouds are mostly made of water droplets and would be vaporised very quickly.

[@panthersherman453]

Japan:……… Do not give America any ideas I touched the boats and i saw two of those! OH SWEET *sees Kokoru vaporized by a third sun*

[@calvintan1247]

And then someone just creates a nitrogen-cooled mirror...

[@eoagr1780]

James Bond

[@shikanokonokonokonokoshitantan]

gundam ahhh moment

[@molybdaen11]

The research time on this can still be used later when approaching foild and mirrors around venus and Mars for terraforming.

[@jonathannosack6941]

How do u turn it off?

[@X.Y.Z.07]

So, the Zeon made it possible

[@justinealicando-vg5wq]

What if Elon Musk already have this? He got so many satellites

[@Russia-bullies]

I wonder,if any space forces have 1.

[@elwahabiabdsalal6632]

My amn think himself empror Palpatine

[@andraenicholson3557]

*Girhen Zabi has entered the chat*

[@ddk1298]

Nazi Germany (1930-1946), first launch into space Oct 4, 1957. So how far do you think a spacestation in space was researched when they hadn't even developed rockets that could break earth's atmosphere?

[@codfishking9650]

The V2 rocket was the first rocket to reach space crossing the Carmen line in 1942 on a suborbital trajectory. 1957 was the first satellite sputnik.

[@Odinson224]

Helios One anyone?

[@EdgyShooter]

Huh, I wrote a paper on a similar concept 😂

[@patrickcanavan4563]

Here cause Wolfenstein New Colossus DLC Captain Wilkins

[@blackflagsnroses6013]

Giant spy glass

[@lucianograff6512]

Sounds cool

[@gundarvarr1024]

crazy but it works

[@hateralert4012]

It already exists I’m sure.

[@chief9mm822]

Helios 1

[@Gryphnn]

Sounds like the name of a chinese general

[@24-7nature]

Rammstein hier kommst die sonne

[@mrxwalker4479]

German Engeneering

[@jonbaxter2254]

What was Germany smoking in the 40s?

[@zombieoverlord5173]

Meth. No seriously the gave meth to many soldiers

[@jameschannel1208]

Hawaii

[@eastcoastpizza784]

1 million dollars! or else

[@67cudaksa34]

and one missile and its poof

[@JohnCamp]

L a h a I n a

[@ryansauchuk7290]

If you ask Congresswoman Greene the Jews beat them to it with their space lasers

[@user-se3sr1kw2a]

I taught I was stupid went I taught of this idea but I guess I was not I just late to it lol

[@SlipMahoneyBowery]

Elon could do it

[@tongbruh5524]

Gryps 2