This guy accidentally built a death ray. Twice.
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There's one architect alive today who can't seem to help making dangerous buildings. I'm not taking notes...
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“If I had a nickel for every time an architect accidentally designed a death ray I would have two nickels. That isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice!”
At least six nickels. The Disney Concert Hall, designed by Frank Gehry, had a similar problem. So did the Museum Tower in Texas and a government building in Milan, plus another in England. The Disney building was sandblasted to make the surface rough. The Museum Tower, a condo building, ironically was designed to reflect light into a museum for natural light. But it wound up harming some artwork.
The library in Freiburg in Germany is also one of those…
"accidentally"
Didn’t the shard in London melt cars or is was that something else
@@noahleach7690 It was the 'phone' shaped building.
My Google search query, “Help, I accidentally built a death ray, again.” led me here.
Fun video, but sadly not pertinent to my current situation.
are you Rafael Vanoli?
@@Ger.bogado, no, I’m not, but I did seek his consultation on a past project and all he gave me were weird plans for buildings that I couldn’t use.
May we help you?
@@i_am_terom4810 sure, if you can get a couple of Kyle’s Kevins to go in there and shut this thing off. Those Kevins are disposable, right?
Sounds like you are looking for the Legal Eagle CZcams channel.
This show gives me “Plankton and his computer-wife Karen” vibes. I mean that as a compliment.
funny, the voice for A.R.I.A. is his girlfriend.
You're lucky, it gave me a sprained ankle.
I only realised trough this comment, that the Karen "meme" is older than we thought
Kyle and Awaken with Jp are the same person.. prove it, have u ever seen them in same place?
Reminder that Plankton programmed his wife to be condescending and passive aggressive towards him, so he enjoys that kinda behaviour.
Actually, as a physics enthusiast: giant, parabolic glass and mirrors is exactly how I imagine a deathray to look. Even the ancient greeks figured out the math 2200 years ago (though they lacked the technology).
Basically, no one intelligent builds a death ray on accident, and no one wise builds a death ray on accident twice.
Mythbusters checked this out. Story was Aristotle had Greek defenders polish their bronze shields, then aim them all at Roman ships in the harbor, causing ships to burst into flames.
Doesn't work. Even with computer controlled alignment. Jamie (out in the harbor) felt a little warmer, but that was all.
@@veramae4098 I've seen that one and basically, they just didn't have enough mirrors (or mirrors with the right shape) to focus it enough.
There is enough sunlight in a square meter on a clear day to instantly start fires if it is focused.
Pythagoras also was said to have use concave mirrors to set Roman galleys & sails on fire to defend against their attack.
@@veramae4098 I think they were wrong. The surface area they were working with was not sufficient. A few dozen mirrors isn't enough. You get thousands of disciplined hoplites lining the shore to aim polished bronze shields on an object made of wood, tar, fabric sails, and manilla rope, and thats more than enough energy to ignite those ships afire.
Greeks had some really great ideas but lacked the materials science to make it work, kind of want to imagine what it would be like had heron's steam engines actually been put into practice.
How to build a death ray, by Kyle "Definitely not evil" Hill
I broke my feet today because I kicked my computer because someone commented that my videos are bad! I hate unjustified criticism. Please wish me a speedy recovery, dear lel
@@AxxLAfriku instead of wasting both of our times, you could have you know, tried to make good videos instead of self promoting in someone's else channel
Reminds me of a line from a TBBT episode: "[Sheldon] is one lab accident away from being a supervillain origin story!"
Kyle "Science Teacher™" Hill
Might this Death Ray of yours also have some, well, military applications?
"he's not doing it on purpose"
Yeah, death ray me once, shame on you. Death ray me twice, shame on me.
Can't get death rayed again!
@@thewhyzer heh...Texas.
If a death ray takes multiple attempts to kill, can it really be called a death ray?
In the somewhat-related words of a certain paranoid theoretical physicist: "FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU. FOOL ME TWICE, EVERYONE DIES!"
@@Flickstro sooo what? Like an almost death Ray? Or maybe a slow death ray?
"The Chris Hemsworth you ordered on Wish"
I would consider that a win
Just that intro bit got the video a like from me.
I would’ve gone with “the Jason Momoa you ordered on wish”
@@jovan3686 He looks like both lol
I got a wish ad, before the video. XDD
@@ironeinar That's it. He's the love child of Chris and Jason.
Once is a mistake, twice is ineptitude- when he builds his third death ray we'll know it's intentional.
The second was designed before the first was completed.
If it's a hand holding a giant magnifying glass I think we'll know.
Death ray me once, shame on you etc
@@mattigator600 can’t get death rayed again
"Our Death-ray doesn't seem to be working, I'm standing in it and I'm not dead yet."
I was thinking the exact same thing. What changed since then?
That face of disappointment.
Aaaaah, the good ol' days....
@@johanvanessen5791 size of project mostly, and quality of mirroring surfaces. Even without the assistance of some sort of focusing instrument, the sun can burn you. If you can gather *enough* collective sunlight, and focus it right, you can get it to work. the mythbusters were dealing with certain restrictions, which basically amounts to "the greeks did not have the tools to do this." We do. the fact we can cut metal with lasers is a testament that we have the tools to focus light accurately enough, or the scale required for the level of focus to matter less.
I can see Rick saying this to Morty
"Be nice to him. He's just a boy"
"I know, I created him!"
-definitely not me with my future kids
Kevin is actually a clone lol.
"You should know, you created him!"
"Allegedly."
DEEPEST
LORE
@@Azrael79a what are kids but collaborative clones?
@@TheMarshmellowLife weird little genetic hybrids?
Classic case of:
"Why has no one thought of doing this awesome yet simple thing before? I'm such a genius!"
- Collateral damage intensifies...
"Ah, I get it now."
I love that the guy's excuse for the Walkie Scorchie was "I didn't know it got that sunny in London."
London? He's right, it doesn't get sunny there.
I visited London once and I can confirm it DOES gets sunny....about 15 different times a day.
"How to Build a Death Ray (by Mistake)"
>Shows a concept of a building specifically designed to be a death ray
"Theoretically"!!!!!
All that free energy going to waste. But how fast can it slap a chicken to roaring temps?
Yeah but, as far as I can tell, that concept wouldn't work to produce 360 degrees of death ray. Remember that the sun only shines from a limited range of angles in the southern sky (or northern sky, if you're in the southern hemisphere.) Unless that building has some kind of transparent Fresnel lenses or something, it would only kind of work on the southern side.
But you could get something like that during Lahaina Noon if you built the building in the tropics and added an outer ring to provide a first bounce of sunlight, so that the building reflects it a second time into a ring.
it's made to heat greenhouses under it in the atric clearly
Potential Onion article title: "London man, fed up with constant urban solar vandalism, equips Jaguar with reflector and declares war on ugly architecture."
The only reasonable setting for a chrome Wrap
This sounds like some shit that would happen in OG Top Gear
That would be the best Onion article, if it wasn't for the one about scientists running out of things to stick inside the Large Hadron Collider. Or maybe that one's just a video...
lol, I mean... I'd want to set up a nice concave mirror of my own to send the rays right back.
Apparently the Fenchurch St building design originally had shades to prevent this, but the design was changed at a late stage
So, the architect knew it would be a problem...
Mike, it can't be a coincidence that you appear in the comments section of every channel that I follow!
It was also intended to be built in ToonTown where the sun is just a large smiley face in the sky.
@@ladymalora Those buildings weren't so much 'mistakes' as calling cards.
The architect who designed this building must have been a graduate of the doctor evil School of Architecture who definitely passed frickin laser beams design course 405/ 406
How my grandfather (who has passed away, may his soul rest easy) who was an engineer liked to say: form follows function. If you wanna create a "fancy" building make sure its form first follows it's function (which of course would be housing people or whatever and not grilling things and people).
Buildings like this show how important it is for architects and engineers to work closely together to prevent such expensive mistakes😅
And to actually listen to eachother because people told the entire team this would happen several times
As a wise man once said, never let an architect build a bridge
@@hamishfox One of my Engineering profs had a great quote.
A building built by Architects without Engineers will fall down; a building built by Engineers without Architects may be so ugly that someone will make you take it down.
He literally built Doofenschmirtz' lair irl.
What an actual mad lad.
Vinoli Architecture Incorporated
@@joshuabessire9169 Damn i actually sang that out loud. take my like
@@avalanche1990 so did I... LOL I think it's time to watch something else
@@richbertl2180 haven’t heard or watched that show ever since it ended when I was like 12, but I lowkey still sang that shit in my head.
If I had a nickel...
Kyle: I'm not a super villain.
Also Kyle: Here's a design for a building protected by heat that's totally not a lair.
It's for business purposes of course
@@sgtrazorclaw3205 hey that means it might be a tax write off, smart...almost super villain smart 🤔
Don’t get sued my dude is the best legal advice I’ve ever heard
"Don't be there', when someone shoots a gun at you, my favorite.
Yeah, sounds like something an architect would do. I'm willing to bet that in these two projects you'll find an engineer that tried to warn them of the solar and wind issues, but was fired by the client because they didn't go along with the architect's "artistic genius."
Sounds like the NASA engineers that worked on the Challenger...
@@dannahbanana11235 That's...not how that went down.
@@rosescarlet79 There were a couple engineers that said it shouldn't launch that day because they never tested in conditions that cold, but they didn't want to push the date back so NASA launched anyway.
@@dannahbanana11235 Right. It wasn't someone's "artistic genius" that made NASA decide to launch the Challenger. It was basically a bureaucratic decision made by people who didn't think the already observed problematic performance of the the O-rings in cold temperatures were a big deal. There weren't any butthurt engineers crying over the criticism of their artistically brilliant booster rocket design.
@@rosescarlet79 Yeah, I didn't mean it was artistic. Just another reason people think they can ignore safety protocol and warnings of people that are trained for that kind of thing.
“Insufferable Lex Luthor like Jesse Eisenberg.” So true.
i remember this one. it melted a bmw i think .
"Otisburg?"
What about Michael Rosenbaum?
Unpopular opinion, I liked him as Lex Luther. Primarily because I hate Lex Luther (hate him the way you're supposed to) and it was nice to see him be so pathetic instead of so in control.
Hate him or like him, but Kevin Spacey WAS Lex Luthor in Superman returns. Maybe a cheesy story, but the guy nailed that role.
Forget the architect, i want to know who is the engineer that looked at both those project and said "That looks like a perfectly innocent 10 stories tall magnifying glass, let's build it !"
This was my reaction the first time I heard about these buildings. I guess I get that the architect is more trained to engineer a structure that is stable and whatever, but did *no one* look at all that glass and the curves and go back to the man and say, "Excuse me, sir? Is this a joke?"
@@VeganAtheistWeirdo Engineer's are just as bat shit crazy, they probably wanted to see if it could work.
@@El-Gato69 yeah I know I would 😆
@@El-Gato69 You missed a bit - "With full knowledge of what potentially could happen". That's the important bit. Engineers are the people that gave us the concept of the gunpowder fuelled internal combustion engine - which rapidly became an external combustion engine but hey, it was a valid idea and funny!
When I saw the buildings, my thought was "Oops: Curved Mirror..."
Odd that the same guy gets it wrong twice.
In engineering, it happens every now and then. Like that bridge in London that started oscilating to a frequency they had missed in the calculations.
Mathematically perfect shapes: look cool.
Physics: haha, focal point goes brrr.
Art without science: Accidentally creates death ray.
Science without art: Powerpoint presentation looks slightly awful.
U could also say local cars that are drivable but not exactly very aesthetic
if you're trying to create something functional and practical with art, you're going to need science
Nah, science without art gets you the Tesla-truck.
@@cazziecaz2559 what are the aerodynamics on that, or the practicality though
@@thewingedporpoise Being an artist rather than a scientist, I have no idea. But the way it looks offends my eyes.
(On a practical side, things that look nice are easier to engage with and retain information from, so if you’re making stuff to teach science, you’re going to need an artist at some point.)
above average intelligence, is studying death rays, and has a cat
this guy is one failed science experiment away from becoming a supervillain
Or to be rejected from a aesthetic science program at school.
Mad evil genius scientist
Evil supervillains in movies never have small kids they're taking care of. This would be highly amusing.
"With this superweapon, I will rule the world!"
"Daaaaaad, Jerry stole my fire truck!"
"Now Jerry, why did you steal Kevin's fire truck? You have one of your own."
"I don't know where mine IS, DAAAAD!"
"Okay, we'll all go look for it then."🙄
@@grmpEqweer No, a real supervillain dad would say :
- So why haven't you stolen it back yet ?
@@Soken50
🤣 Good point!
Calls his Son : "I created him"
Calls the Sun : "The great life giver"
The death star could have just put a big mirror in that concave depression where the lasers come out and used the light reflected from a planet's star to cook the surface, then mine the planet for resources instead of wasting a planet's worth of minerals etc
The Galactic Empire didn't last long enough to develop Galactic Capitalism.
Wouldn't even need that, it's so huge just park it in low orbit and wreck the planet with massive tidal tsunami, earth quakes and volcanic erruptions just from the sheer mass of the thing.
Funny thing, they told the lead scientist developing the superlaser that it WAS for mining, by breaking up dead planets in order to collect the metal core. The "Imperial Planetary Ore Extractor," they told her it would be called.
@@LordNeiman Would be funnier if the acronym spelled something but I guess it would be too obvious then
Or just nuke the entire surface into glass and then send droids and stormtroopers to murder any survivors.
"You remember outside. You know, where the people are."
Ugh! Why would I wanna go there?
Because _the sun is a deadly laser_
The fact the Sun is a deadly laser is why I want other people to go outside while I stay inside.
Wonderful Kyle. You’re perfect for HYDRA. Now come join me and together we can take over ze world.
Thought you were trapped on an alien planet guiding others to a treasure you cannot posses?
@ThatRandomGuy its just a side job
@@eh9618 why else would he need someone to write grant applications?
@@eh9618 Marvel = Multiverse. Where there are other universes where things happened differently if one simply asks "What If...".
Sometimes I wonder why most super villains sound or are German..
"Goddammit, I made a death ray again?!?"
Huh. Gotta hate it when that happens...
“If I had a nickel for every time I’ve built a death ray, I’d have two nickels; which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it’s happened twice.”
"I accidentally built a Death Ray."
"Not again!"
Dude remember what happened the last time all those law suits, Dude COME ON!
"By mistake." Are we sure that Kyle isn't just an evil Archimedes with the soul of Machiavelli?
Too bad the Mythbusters didn't know about these buildings when then built their version of Archimedes death ray. 😁
"A moat of solar energy"
Dude, WW3 is going to be insane.
It sounds like a Dr Who weapon.
"The Time Lords deployed even the Solar Moat in the war against the Daleks"
I feel obliged to correct you that in this context, it's actually spelled 'mote'. Like... dust mote kind of mote.
This hits different today
Kyle, thank you for your videos. I've been showing them to my mom lately, and they've actually been helping her with her self esteem. She has always thought of herself as not very smart, but as she watched this, not only has she been learning new things, but she's realizing how much she actually DOES know.
Isn´t it funny that knowing how to create a death ray by mistake, makes it harder to create a death ray by mistake
It's important to learn from our mistakes🤣.
How long has it been since the episode about info, hmmmm
If he made death rays and wind tunnels of doom without even meaning to, imagine what he could do if he actually tried. Clearly this guy missed his calling.
I'm almost certain he did this on purpose and just claims ignorance. Even dumbass me knows and undersands how concave mirrors work.
"The Chris Hemsworth you ordered off of Wish..." ... I died. I'm dead. Deceased.
RIP
right there with you
I completely lost him at that cringeworthy comment..
@@ZuhebSiddiqueMohammed84 Sorry to hear you have no sense of humor. Must be rough.
So nice seeing kyle spend his court mandated bonding time with Kevin
Ah, that building... the car melter 3000
-inator
@@yaelfeldman6965 goddamnit i was gonna say that
Good ol’ Walkie Scorchie
@@dominicsurette2890 I 3rd this
I didn’t know he made TWO death ray towers!
Fry me once, shame on me. Fry me twice, shame on you.
We were having a garage sale at my grandma's house where she had glass baubles and vases set out. We soon saw that some adjacent paper was scorching and candles were melting quickly. Lol! We moved the glass into the shade out of the hot Texas sun. Fun sciencey stuff. - Love your videos!!
Yeah, glass objects should _never_ be in direct sunlight. It could end up focusing to a point and starting a fire.
I remember learning this in one of my architectural engineering classes. What a fun discussion of design repercussions.
Man I love budget thor teaching me about death rays
Lol you have budget Kyle in the MCU
I'll be honest, if I was an evil genius, I'd be at Doofenshmirtz level; make somewhat brilliant ideas and waste them on petty pranks/overthought concepts.
Art and science needing each other is so true! On a micro-scale, I'm studying science and draw in my free time, and I'm also very good friends with someone who's studying to be a career artist.
Ah...I remember this...this guy was also the basis for the final Brian Cranston character joke on HIMYM. It made me and my engineering buddies laugh that no one considered that at all during planning or design.
> "I know, I created him!"
Kyle "Totally Not A Supervillain" Hill is a father confirmed
I'm naming my next band "Deathray Architect". I always get SO MUCH of the wrong thing from these videos!
Epic band name
For anyone wondering, they fixed the "Walkie Talkie" building. It doesn't concentrate sunrays like it did before anymore. Same things goes for the other building
*Builds death ray*
"Good lord! I have done it AGAIN!" *starts panicking*
"Uh oh, did I just accidentally the Archimedes Death Ray?"
Why didn't he mention that, I wonder?
"There are no accidents"
-Master Oogway
Obviously oogway never met me 🥴
@@SloppyTelopy That also, was no accident. 😜
@@Rattus-Norvegicus lmao that's why my brothers are both ten years older right 😉
There are some--but they're happy accidents.
@@SloppyTelopy It was, and always will be, your destiny
The paper diagram was top tier with your wind effects on your photon waves 😏😁
I like how the wind helped animate your Sunlight Demonstration 🌬️
Slightly random but my favorite fact about science is that when you see the stars at night, you are literally seeing the past due to the amount of time it takes for the light to travel here. Just throwing that out there since we're talking about light!
People should install some thermoelectric solar panels under there, gotta make use of that heat
@Cameron yes, i've seen those. But i meant for the residents there to make use of the car melter 3000. And the hotel could use them by adding those umbrellas bolted on the ground covered by photovoltaic solar panels
I saw a video where some kid glued 1 inch mirrors all over a 6 foot dish antenna, and it would melt rocks!
@@alphagt62 there are products like that..to cook food. Iirc there are pros and cons..pro, you use the heat from the sun. No need for fossil fuels. but, you can't control the temperature..it'll just keep getting hotter and hotter.
I thought all of the current solar radiation power generation stations were complete failures? Like the amount of resources invested in comparision with the poor initial production pollution offset, and low power output? Looked great on paper and by the theoretical numbers (cough, pushing for li-ion battery pack powered electric cars charged with non nuclear grid power, cough) 😉
@@berryreading4809 hey nuclear is pretty clean nowadays kyle even said so himself. Plus, small modular reactors are a possibility.. but yea, big solar farms might not be able to do much, but maybe many smaller ones could?
"You do know what OUTSIDE is, right?"
Yes.
Hair plugs, being gross in Vegas.
This mans loves society.
I used to study architecture here in Texas. We were taught since day one that we needed to be careful and smart when choosing to work with glass and metals for facades, as these could cause several problems due to light and heat reflection, to name a few. It's amazing to see all the damages they can cause, let alone the danger they can present to pedestrians.
You keep saying you aren't a super villian and yet here we are.
Meh, he's not Musk or Bezos. we'll be fine as long as he stays focused on his "pet projects".
give it time. got to earn that super title first. ;D
kinda surprised we didnt get into the Archimedes Death Ray on this one.
me, an architecture graduate: "I now have ideas on what to do when I get my license."
At least you’re smart enough to do it on purpose. Go forth and be an intentional supervillain!
Wow extreme unintended consequences. My guess is, the buildings were designed to reflect light for the purposes of keeping the interior cool. They just didn't think about where that light would end up!
Finally, now this is a school project I can do
“There are no accidents”
Master Oogway
0:13 "and I regulary do that with my Remote det... I phone" Love how he stops himself from saying Remote Detonator pauses and then procedes to say I phone, what secrets is he hiding, What other secrets can his phone do...
We'll just have to keep eyes out for a third building from that guy with antagonistic traits.
"mistake"
Kyle Hill is already my favorite MCU villain. Marvel just doesn't know yet.
"You remember outside, don't you?" I love it!!! Thanks for sharing.
"He's just a boy." Until this point, I had assumed through all of the various passing references to Kevin that he was a grad student-type character.
You're the best Kyle... Chris helmsworth WISHES he could be so smart...
Yeah that sounded like a Wish-endorsement, more than a subliminal diss
Inspiring nex generation of mad scientists everywhere!
The new McGuyver?
Wuha ha ha ha ha
Evil scientists. "Mad scientist" implies mental impairment.
"I'm not saying he's trying to do something, but he did a really good job at not trying to doing something"
I remember when this guy was still summoning the chalk painting spirits
"I built the death ray for strictly peaceful purposes!" - Dr. Jean Karl Michale from Danger!! Death Ray
Isn't that also Nikola Tesla?
I saw this vid title and I was crossing my fingers the Vdara would come up, but I'm stunned to hear both those building were designed by the same guy. Like, I can get it happening once, but twice?? But sure, it's _totally_ on accident.
He had a fixation on concave shapes... And didn't learn well.
Your friendly neighborhood landscaper here. In my years of yardwork I've noticed the older, thinner windows, when slightly bent concave from the AC running, will create scorch marks on turf in one or two concentrated spots in lawns. It's funny.
This is the same tech used by the Martians in H G Well's "The War Of The Worlds" - solar reflectors!!!
"accidentally", yeah, man's roleplaying a bond villain and pretending it was an "accident"
It's basically Diamonds Are Forever
That "thanks for watching" at the end had me feeling some type of way.
Architects are well known for not planning for things that no one could have seen coming like sunshine, wind, rain, people existing.
Glory to Kevin. He's the only one who stands against the villain and his miniature death ray with his yoga ball of justice.
Rafael Vinoly may have had the best childhood . An anthill + a magnifying glass + unbridled imagination = priceless.
THIS IS AN IMPOSTER!
The real Kyle would never let a Kevin outside.
who do you think operates the cameras?
That was the Kevin that's not allowed INSIDE. He knows what he did.
Why wouldn't kyle let his Kevins outside?
They all know they have to come back for the antidote.
@@MWBalls: Nah, man. That was alllllll the way back in Batch Q-23. We stopped doing the whole "lysine contingency" after what happened in _Jurassic Park._ See, the Kevins can read, and also perform quite a few basic lab functions, so it wasn't long before some escaped Kevins were able to synthesize the antidote for themselves.
We learned our lesson _real_ quick, after the Batch Uprising of _don'tworryaboutit,_ and fixed it so that all future Kevins have a lifespan of only 8 hours, tops. Sometimes, we need a longer-lasting Kevin or five for _again,don'tworryaboutit ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°),_ so of course we kept the genetic sourcecode template, so we can add on features as needed with each new batch.
I've been loving the CZcams algorithm because it's been suggesting me this video every single day since it was published, although I've seen it already. And yes, I love it because the thumbnail makes me giggle my vegas-burned-hair off Everytime. Keep irradiating knowledge Mr Kyle!
You gotta love when Kyle realized wind exists and just...rolls with it because probably would have taken days to get a wind-less day for that scene to be re shot. That's dedication to "doin it live"... Or forethought to writing the joke about the wind beforehand
Ah yes, a solar mote. And you'll build it for the archenemy of a dude who's powered by the sun.
"I wanna stress, that I have nothing to do with this" lol
no one:
literally no one:
Kyle Hill: recording dedicated 12 minutes long video to explain that concave mirror can focus sun light in a single point
What I find amusing about this, is that it was such an easy fix before it ever was built, flip the building around so that there is no focal point. Never build inward-facing convex curves on the south side of the building. I know there was more than one building like this, the M2 Main alley building (4th and Quebec st) in Vancouver BC had a fire last year in exactly the same manner, and news articles referred back to the Scorchie in London.
Kyle: "you know who you are" *waves goodbye*
Me: "Oh no..." *explodes*
The Disney concert hall in Los Angeles had a similar problem to the buildings you spoke of
Kyle,
Loved this video, extremely entertaining and informative!
All the best to Kyle and crew! Its a video that will stand the test of time.
That death ray ring idea could also be great for collecting solar energy for solar panel fields
I think there already are solar power plants that use the focal point focusing ideas. They work all year round though, the deathy ray ring idea might be reliant on sun at particular angles only, meaning only a few days a year.
lol this was no mistake I'm on to you , you supervillan
There were way too many hours where I for sure thought this was gonna be about Kyle's "friend" lmao.
I do actually remember hearing about the death ray buildings; kinda hilarious that no one was aware of the potential for this. You gotta assume that someone somewhere knows or else this would have been happening all over the place as people built more and more curvy glass things
"Accidentally"
We all know you built them on purpose, Kyle.
Oh, you were talking about an architect. Carry on.
How did Kyle get through this video without mentioning Archimedes?