Space Nazis!

[pauldrye]

Again! It's like these guys were overambitious nutbars or something!

Sonnengewehr: The Sun GunSome stories on this have circling the web the last few of days (the epicentre appears to be a Gizmodo article), so I figured I'd best pull my notes on it together and say something myself for False Steps. Much more detailed than the other articles you've

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[ffutures]

Looks like something out of Iron Sky.

[pauldrye]

That's the thing about Nazi grandiosity -- it's hard to trump it even in fiction.

[mmcirvin]

Huh.

I always think of giant sun-mirrors as a Soviet thing, since they seemed to like to speculate about using them for benign purposes, like making it sunnier in Moscow.

[anonymous]

When I was a boy I heard about something like this from my grandfather. No idea where he heard about it - I was young enough that everything he told me was true because he'd seen it :-)