Archimedes's flaming cannon reconstructed

I loved this story as a kid. I always thought he used like 100 soldiers holding 100 mirrors to burn down the ships. Love the whole concept of ancient machines.

Aye, seems a bit of a fuss when they could use catapults and achieve the same or better results.

Aye, seems a bit of a fuss when they could use catapults and achieve the same or better results. War is also about psychology. I can see some Romans ****ting their Toga seeing that the Greek could harness the power of the sun.

War is also about psychology. I can see some Romans ****ting their Toga seeing that the Greek could harness the power of the sun. nah....I think you're wanting to scare the enemy when they are further away than the 150m stated in the article. (are you biased with these opinions?...lol) The Romans couldn't have been that impressed/scared as they took the city anyway.

This was also tested in Mythbusters. Twice even. http://mythbustersresults.com/episode16