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'Death Ray' skyscraper is wreaking havoc on London for a few totally insane reasons
A giant in London is melting cars, frying bike seats, and scorching sidewalks. But it's not Godzilla. It's a "Walkie Talkie" — the nickname for the 38-story skyscraper on Fenchurch Street in central London. The glare reflected from the glass-fronted building was so strong that people changed its name to "death ray" skyscraper.
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It's funny. Like what do you do about it. I wonder how many modern conventions we have around today that originated as after thought quick fixes for unplanned side effects of otherwise well engineered designs. Things that we didn't know we had to plan for... so we tack something else on... a, say, wind screen three stories up to solve the gusts issue here, that becomes commonplace, when really there is a better engineering solution all along, but that ended up being how it got done this first time and it gets stuck with for years to come.
So, does this building prove the concept behind the Archimedian death ray where the Mythbusters could not?