sun gun theme

A theoretical orbital weapon, which makes use of a concave mirror mounted on a satellite, to concentrate rays from the sun on to a small area of the Earth's surface, destroying targets or killing through heat.

2 total · 1 major · 1 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
movie: Gog (1954) major A secret government lab was working on putting a mirror in space that could concentrate the sun's rays enough to burn up a city.
futurama4x08 minor Professor Wernstrom modified his space mirror to fire a gigantic electromagnetic pulse at the Galapagos Islands.