Nazi Sun Gun - Using The Sun To Melt Armies
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New York wakes to a second sunrise - but this one burns hotter than the surface of the sun - it sets fire to the grass, boils the river and even melts steel beams.
And worse of all, there is no defense to this nazi mega project.
You might have heard of this project before, but believe me when you see this video will reliase that hiter was far more insane than you ever imagined.
With solar factories, farms and dormentaries onboard, it was more ambitious than any space station today, and would have truely propelled the humanity to the stars.
Or totally wiped the united states and its allies from the earth.
Join me today for the incredible Nazi fever dream, the sun gun!
In 1923, a german rocket scientist came up with an ambitious idea. What if nighttime… didn’t have to happen?
What if crops around the world could grow 24,
what if steam engines could operate without fuel -
what if… enemy cities could be vapourised.
Yes thats right - while the origin of this concept was clouded in peace, but it had a sinister objective -
to construct an orbital weapons platofrm capable of eliinating armies, boiling oceans and igniting huge forest fires.
It would be called the Heliobeam or its far more catcher name - the Sun gun!
This thing was huge. Measuring at least over a kilometer big, or 0.62 miles,
this giant concave mirror would reflect the suns rays to a sharp point - how sharp depending on the angle of the mirror.
And it was far more than just a mirror as well.
It would have been constructed in stages by rockets over a decade - very optimistic timeline - with crews living in space as they put the giant mirror together. The space station would have required greenhouses to grow food - living quarters, warehouses - all in zero gravity - something that we have to admit was a little out of reach conceptually with scientist at the time.
But I’m getting ahead of myself, lets get back to the madman behind the idea.
Like all crazy nazi ideas, there was a equally crazy scientist behind it - Hermann Oberth
Hermann was one the founding fathers of rocketry in the world, launching his first test rocket at 14 and joining the ranks of the nazi space and rocket programs with the likes of V2 inventor, Wernher von Braun.
You have to imagine that while he was working on his test rockets as a boy, he would notice how the sunlight would reflect off the surface of his shiny materials, and illuminate the shadows.
He also apparently noticed how the shiny material would greatly annoy his elders, remarking in one interview
““My space mirror is like the hand mirrors that schoolboys use to flash circles of sunlight on the ceiling of their classroom. A sudden beam flashed on the teacher’s face may bring unpleasant reactions.”
The idea was floated around academic circles as a way to reflect light to help generate power at night, act as a weather tower and radio relay site,
but as rocket technology in the 1920s and 30s was so limited, and that the economy was in tatters in germany - it never took off, and is where our story ends…
Or it would have, if infaliable Hitler didn’t see the idea and pushed it forward
In 1941, Hiter commissioned a study into the sun gun idea, with a staggering budget of three million Reichsmarks - which todays US dollars is around 150 million - not bad for a initial proposal!
They fleshed out the proposal.
The space station would sit at around 8,000 kilometers, or 5,100 miles above Earth.
The scientists calculated that a huge reflector, made of metallic sodium and with an area of 3.5 square miles, would be large enough to do the job.
It would be contructued of prefab sections that owuld allow easy construction in orbit.
Onboard, the crew would use magnetic shoes to move around in the zero or light rotating gravity,
and they would replenish their food and oxygen with vast greenhouses
filled with pumpkin plants - chosen for their hungry applitite for CO2.
This would all be powered by the sun of course! No not solar panels, they were not invented yet, but actually steam driven dynamos that would capture the suns heat. Of course.
The mirror would be rotated into position using rocket thrusters, and when not in use, rotated to face away from the earth.
So why was it never built?
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Please make a video about the Soviet LKS space Shuttle
sorry to put this here, but I think someone basically stole your video on "Flying Hotels"
ruclips.net/video/2wGV6FW9inY/видео.html
The channel is called "FutureTech"....It just looked way too suspicious, anyway, I thought you should know about it
MBB Lampyridae
Can you please cover The Thunderwell! Nuclear steam piston concept launch system/weapon for launching cargo into orbit, destroying asteroids, lol and aggressive Alien Spaceship! ruclips.net/video/VonfewfNNfI/видео.html 😆👍
-- The steam accelerated Jules Verne capsule, which was suggested by the speed of at least 6 times earth’s escape velocity, achieved by the 10-cm thick, 1.2 m diameter steel cover blown off the top of the 152 m shaft of the 0.3 kt Plumbbob-Pascal B underground Nevada test on 27 August 1957. In that test, a 1.5 m thick 2 ton concrete plug immediately over the bomb was pushed up the shaft by the detonation, knocking the welded steel lid upward. This was a preliminary experiment by Dr Robert Brownlee which ultimately aimed to launch spacecraft using the steam pressure from deep shafts filled with water, with a nuclear explosion at the bottom; an improvement of Jules Verne’s cannon-fired projectile described in De la Terre à la Lune, 1865, where steam pressure would give a more survivable gentle acceleration than Verne’s direct impulse from an explosion. Some 90% of the radioactivity would be trapped underground!
In the 90s, Russia actually experimented with some of the more peaceful applications of this idea. The project was called Znamya, and they launched a couple of space mirrors to try to light up patches of the Earth at night. The first test was a success, but unfortunately the project was abandoned after the second mirror failed to deploy properly.
I'm surprised they had money left for that at this point in time.
A success as in they successfully lit up a portion of the earth during night? No way. Dont believe it for a second.
@AileDiablo
Well the USSR had fallen in 1991. At that point their money was gone. We are talking about "reborn" Russia here, which had not much left after the end of the Cold War and the fall of the USSR.
The Russia and peace comment you said make no sense. LOL! Look at Ukraine. No peace there, they are conquerors! Sorry dude, go fish.😉
@@free-birdrocker8809
He clearly said the 90s
This takes "The sun is a deadly laser" to a next level
lmao
Why take everything to a "next level" when u can take it to the "max level"
Hey can we get out of the bunker yet
No
Why
The sun is a deadly laser
Well, I mean....Its not really amplifying radiated light through stimulated emission.... Its more Light Concentration via Concaved Reflective Surface. But "the sun is a deadly lccrs" doesnt quite have the same ring to it....even if said through a vocoder.....
Nice video, just one problem. Von Braun's reusable rocket plane was not around til the 50s and 60s. There was another space plane concept that would have taken the job, with it's original role as an orbital bomber.
It wss beautiful too. They used a version of it in the series "Man in the High Castle" Of all the pie in the sky super weapons, this one could possibly have worked had technicalities been worked out. Scary thoughts. We just had more money and better resources. .
Was that the SilberVogel?
@@richardgaunt9417 propably but the silbervogel was a suborbital bomber.
It could circle the earth but not by balancing gravity and centrifugal force but by jumping off the atmosphere like a speedboat on water.
I am not sure if the Aggregat 10 rocket could reach orbital velocity
you have a beatiful version of my name bro
This idea is still nearly inconceivable now, after nearly a century of progress.
If NASA and the US military worked together, they could probably make something similar. Not saying that they should, this theoretical space station would brake several United Nations treaties and rules just by existing.
very slow progress
Nope it's plausible nowadays.... they've been growing crops at orbit nowadays and with SpaceX cheap flights I don't see that as an impossibility.
If we forget UN space laws that is
Think about Starship and its capabilities. I think we will see a major change in space projects soon. Hopefully it will all be used for good. We will see.
“nearly inconceivable”
Yeahhhhhhh…
About that…
Look up the Znamya Project.
Russia pulled it off in February 1993, as the Znamya 2 Satellite, albeit on a smaller scale than this wonder weapon (Mirror may have been around 15 meter in diameter, produced 5km diameter bright spot, traversed europe at ~8 km/h). Despite being quite cloudy that morning across europe, some ground observers reported a light beam as it swept by. It also had a luminosity equivalent to about that of a full moon. This one was de-orbited after several hours and burned up over Canada.
The Znamya 2.5 went well at first, had a 25 meter diameter mirror, it was expected to have a 7km wide light ray, though in progress of deploying, the mirror caught on an antenna, and ripped, and all attempts to get it unstuck failed. Afterwards, it was de-orbited and burned up on re-entry.
The 3 didn’t get to go anywhere, but would have had a 60-70 meter diameter mirror. It wasn’t made due to the incident with the 2.5.
IIRC, Archimedes came up with a similar weapon where a bunch of soldiers would hold brightly polished bronze shields to redirect the sun into a beam to burn the sails and wooden hulls of enemy fleets. Works in theory but practically hard if not impossible to execute correctly. There was an urban legend back in ancient times that the Lighthouse of Alexandria had a similar capability as well
There have been proposals to use some form of mirror or shade to help fight global climate change but it’s been relegated to a last ditch effort due to some of the risks and costs involved with the project
Believe this was also on Mythbusters without success.
Climate Change caused by humans is also a myth. Follow the money.
@@KillerBill1953 😑💬
@@Sportsvee on mythbuster they tried it on wood hull but not on sails , which is why i believe the weapon was only designed to burn the sail as it would catch fire way more easily
@@athomicritics Long before the sail had enough energy imparted on it to ignite the sailors would probably fled in terror of this hillside sun machine shining at them making their eyes hurt and skin uncomfortably hot. But also, itd be a nightmare to aim that many people effectively on to one spot. Though, if anyone has used a signal mirror, you put the thing you want to signal in the middle of the center hole (looking through from the back) and sweep the secondary reflection of the sun from the internal top surface of the glass across it, an observer would see flashes as the sun swept the object(implying an alignment). Perhaps they had some sort of method for aiming their individual beams? Or, like many ancient doodles, were ideas that didnt necessarily make it to production. I mean, in 1000 years, when some long buried highschool notebooks are found, will they wonder about the mechsuits designed by walter "killdragon bloodoath" johnstone? .....Actually....considering the course of general intelligence among the populous lately....theyll probably pour all their funding into recreating the doodles so whimps will stop bothering them during ow my balls....
This sounds like one of those plot points in some sci-fi show where the villain gets the remote to a bunch of these mirrors and threatens to melt the ice caps unless he gets one year's worth of hamster feed.
😂😂😂😂
I wish we had Mr. Burns machine to block the sun on bad summers
I thought this channel was dead.
Nice to see another upload, I love the content!
Not dead!
@@escapevelocity6696 Monty Python said it best 😛: ruclips.net/video/DscJ5PFkZxQ/видео.html
Russia HAS actually launched a teeny-tiny version of this in the 90s. It was called Project Znamya and it could illuminate areas 7-8 km in diameter to a brightness similar to that of morning dawn. I think I read somewhere that it was intended to illuminate the wilderness, possibly during polar night, for oilmen to work in
The 7-8 was the predicted for the 2.5. The 2 had a 5km
"That's no moon.. it's a German spacecraft."
The DEATH STAR
And here I was thinking that the Icarus diamond sun beam weapon in James Bond’s Die Another Day was ridiculously unrealistically impossible… yet the Nazi’s were making something similar back in the 1940’s?!?! 🤯😱
Just what we all need: More concentrated sun/heat entering our atmosphere.
"Global Warming" believer, I see.
@@flechette3782 yeah, it’s a thing 💀
A whopping one degree in over a century. Time to freak out!
@@flechette3782 In over a century because humans have just now recently been releasing a lot of pollutants in the atmosphere.
It may be one degree, but there will be multiple in the future, and that's significant. There're also many species of fauna and flora adapted to the current global temperature. Can't you also see the glaciers melting, that will rise the sea level and flood cities, including the ocean acidity.
@@flechette3782 an exponential curve, considering we are building more factories and as more people cause a carbon blanket, the world will consistently heat up if nothing ins done about it. starts at 1 degree, then 2, then 4 in shorter and shorter amounts of time. this is why its so important to look at
So a Death Star, literally a Death Star
Hitler:yes
Has a video on the Enzmann Starship already been suggested?
Imagine being asleep in bed at 3 am and seeing the sun outside but it's still 3 am
And now we know where the idea for the Death Star came from.
Considering that the SUN GUN would have used liquid Sodium as a reflacting medium, wouldn't it have been VERY EASY to destroy it using a missile, or missiles filled with Water?
Except the allies never had any missiles until they discovered the V-2 technology and refined it.
The allies didn’t have any space missiles.
allies had no space weapons.if THIS was somehow invented during even 1945,allies would've get systematically fuc%ed up.even if America invented nukes,they'd still get fu%ed up
this is more dangerous and affective than nukes
Teeny tiny writing mistake at 6:09 , the audio says 3000 km, but the wording says 8000 km.
Otherwise, once more a magnificant and amazing looking video!
Wow I didn't know that 👍
Mr Obvious has returned to the comment section! 👍
This was obviously the inspiration for the space weapons used in _Diamonds Are Forever_ and _Die Another Day._
"Reichsmarks" is my new favorite pronunciation of you!
This is like something out of Wolfenstein.
Not sure how much use a few extra hours of sun light would be in any scenario. Crops also need time to rest.
The U.S. although never wanted to build a death ray but was at one point planning on building orbital solar farm stations that could also be used for research purposes that would use microwaves and or lasers to beam down electricity. New ideas like this are starting to come back in concept like building huge solar farms on the moon and as it is tidally locked it could provide energy 24/7, beaming it down to ground stations as it orbits the earth.
Yeah but could you make microwave beams for it without obliterating devices nearby on the ground? What about satellites already up there? A lot of questions to answer there
Wasn't there a James Bond movie from the 2000s? I think it was "Die Another Day"
6:06 Lol Onscreen text is correct but voice over states 3000km is 5100miles 😂😂😂
Space mirror's effectiveness is only proportional to its angular resolution from the earth since the mirror could never get brighter than the sun itself area wise in order to conserve the second law of the thermodynamics.
In order to make it even remotely effective as weapon, we need to make the mirror to appear at least as big as the sun, which is 0.5°. In order to achieve this, the mirror has to be 70 km (44 miles) wide at 8000 km orbit. Even at 400 km altitude where the International Space Station currently operates, the mirror has to be 3.5km, or 2.2 miles wide.
I wonder why the Nazi scientist couldn't figure this out though, maybe this was intentional, just as Von Braun lied about the effectiveness of V2 to further his rocket research.
It's not to say that this is unachievable though, with the current technology level of thin film sputtering, we could manufacture very thin mirrors on-site (since the process requires near vacuum which is plentiful in space). It's the same technology used for manufacturing potato chip bags, so it's not that expensive either.
what if the mirror was 1/3 of the Sun's size in the sky? Would it still be effective as a weapon? Or is the energy output too small for the sun gun to produce any significant heat?
@@deltap6967 It can be a deadly weapon. We are talking about 30% increase in solar energy. Aimed at areas not equipped to handle such heat it could cause mass heat stroke.
@@Yutaro-Yoshii so mild headaches? Maybe the Nazis were idiots as always
Holy s**t hitler was more crazy that I thought
So glad they brought back this invention in Futurama
Anyone else thinking of the similarities with “Icarus” in James Bond Die Another Day?
Archimedes first invented that kind of weapon to burn down enemy wooden ships. There was also a peaceful purpose, like a solar mirror for space colonies depicted in the book The High Frontier as well.
can you cover the sea dragon? I am really interested in that rocket and it seems pretty interesting to look at it
You gotta give the Nažis credit for one thing: their ambition. If it were not for all the racism, they could have created a new dawn of humanity, propelling us all into a new era of technology and engineering.
Lol no. All these so called ideas ideas you are referring to were war related. No civilizations or nation have survived using slave labor. People thought we would have flying cars by now in the 80s. Ambion means nothing if you don't have the tech to make it. There was nothing good about the nazis you weirdo.
@@EricHamm The Internet was war related. The gps and radar were war related. Airplanes were war related. The entire US space program was war related using german scientists. The NRA was war related.
10:26 This thing would be worthless for a weapon today as we have sat missiles and hunter killer satts so the moment that thing turned from weather to gun its going to get taken out. Add to that its not very mobile.
9:37 Start of Never Ending Story music. Nice
never ending story.... you used a version of it... love it
The thumbnail says This Was Real. It never was real. It was no more than a bunch of designs and notes on paper.
Yeah these guys really planned ahead. It's eerie to think about what they could have done given more resources.
Love your work man, this is probs one of my fav never built N@zi concepts
The only thing you didn't mention, the Sun Gun, is also a feature craft. As solar sail & *solar system* launcher👀. What is that You'd say? The launcher is a parabolic tactic to travel inconceivably ( during the 20th century imagination) faster than anything ever used in space. To the most deepest celestial path as well.
Soooo basically megamind decided to work for the natzis
Man a giant solar sail! Yeah no chance without some serious change
Loving the content
We haven't even visited space yet.
Lets build a space mirror 2 miles wide!
The person, who got funding for that idea is one of the best salespersons ever.
Great "What If."
I don't get the need for a contraption shaped like that. Just build a giant magnifying glass with some surrounding stations tethered/attached to it.
The theme song to the never ending story was a nice touch lol
Could you put this channel, under your "channels" section on "Found and Explained"?
Hey new suscriber and I came from your other channel. ✌
Germany: We'll make a space mirror to destroy the enemy.
Britain: We'll stick with radar.
I really enjoyed the last minute. Thumbs up
Ace Combat? No. Space Combat!
valorant player: OPEN UP THE SKY!
This was the North Korean superweapon in "Die Another Day" LOL:) He used it to blow up the minefields for an invasion. Later! OL J R :)
even tho nazis were monsters i actually kinda respect their crazy concepts and how advanced they were
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Dang they over here tryna make the Death Star
Is that the Neverending Story soundtrack I hear toward the video's end? If so, what a wild, but cool idea.
Why is no one talking about that smooth transition to the sponsor
dude, how many channels you have :)
how insane are you in serving people for money
stupid questions
My guy is just reuploading from @foundandexplained
I can imagine humans using something similar to make some planets and moons more habitable in the next 100 years.
Ah yes, the Nazi Death Star.
Gives a whole new meaning to the term Solar Lazer
you could push space vessels around with the uv rays
There is a song playing in 3:00 of the video. What's the name of the song???
Measuring at least over a kilometer big?
Nazis had some crazy weapon ideas we would take inspiration from in the future
finally there is an brimstone skills in the real life
9:54 lol. check out the 1980s BASIC code appearing on screen. (near top-right of picture.)
Jump ahead about 25 years later, the USA was looking at doing a "sun" mirror for something similar.
The idea was to put a big mirror in space above Vietnam.
Then, reflect sunlight off the mirror at night to light up an area.
This could get rid of the "night" cover of the RVN/VC the US was fighting over there.
It never came about, but now I can see where the idea of the concept came from.
We might be able to do it today with the tech we have.
Or the tech we do not have...yet.
nazis : tried to use the sun as a gun
america : drops the sun on japan twice
Maybe huge mirror in Martian L2 point to make night day. Too large to be constructed.
it sounds like something straight out of star wars
Wasn't this the idea behind the James Bond movie Die another day?
What some kid sees when he burns ants with a magnifying glass.
*What the ants see before they die.*
ngl it can kinda work, if it was bigger and more powerful
"Hermann Oberth lunch is first rocket when he was 14" what where you doing when you we"re 14
7:30 More like "Thank God it was never built!"
"They didnt have foldable material back then..."
uhm.....so.....their cloths......how?
also, I believe that was the Hudson, and lulz yeah. but did that river under that bridge really burst into flames?!
This is what gave the idea of Wolfenstein
This superweapon screams Ace Combat 8 new Belkan witchcraft technology! The changes might be very slim but never zero that Kazutoki Kono sees this and might consider it for a new entry.
My guy is telling me that this German laser design came into space before Sputnik lol.
Herr Oberth sounds like he burned ants with a magnifying glass for fun. One simple conventional missile would quickly eliminate the Heliobeam threat.
so basically the death star but only the disk
0:16 I see what you did there. It hasn't gone unnoticed. 😉
Literally the death star
This is so ridiculous. The Germans only had the V2, a one-stage rocket that could not lift a gram into earth orbit. We don’t even now have the capability to lift the mass required for even a 100-foot mirror. Also they didn’t have the technology to aim and control such a mirror. And of course they could not reach geosynchronous orbit which is pretty much a requirement. A ridiculous story.
Pretty sure this was only for if they won.
bro wanted to build a death star
is it possible to reflect the light and aim it somewhere?
what am I watching do you have a source for this
Nice XP-55 cameo
3:03 my guy had an actual stroke
The first world super porwe was Portugal in 1500 then the UK was the super power and then the US
The scientist himself never wanted to use it as a weapon. His idea was to use it as a peaceful object
Though he also had violent purposes
Dont you think it would have acted like a huge solar sail? Or is it too far from the sun?
When I was a child I used to role-play as a technologically advanced "God like" being, incinerating incects, particularly ants using a fresnel lens as a solar beam weapon, it was kinda fun.
Always wondered if it could be done on a much grandeur scale, then the RUclips algorithm brought this to me.
Mythbusters will bring you why it doesnt work. ;)
Schlock Mercenary will bring you Maxim 24: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a big freaking gun.
Thank you for the video and keep it up! Can you Rod of God (ROG)?
Interesting idea but it's easier to just do with a giant ass solar array tied to microwave beam to fry things on the ground.
Unless you are able to loft kilometer diameter "gathering mirrors" into orbits closer to the sun ( which would require humanity actually have consistent reusable heavy lift craft operating!) With "Transfer" mirrors sending the solar beam to the final firing array in orbit, it's not viable next to some High Energy Laser (HELgun) weapon that uses a solar array to power its capacitors.
It's 19:21 and that intro was the funniest shit I've seen all day
this idea is so out of hand
It'd take a decade to build? Plenty of time for this guy with a magic shield to butt in and ruin the Sun Gun's day.