MIT Students Test Archimedes Death Ray Weapon

I saw this on slashdot. In 212BC the Greek scientist Archimedes supposedly used polished mirrors to set on fire some of the Roman ships besieging the Greek colony of Syracuse. People have long been skeptical that this actually took place and the Mythbusters on TV evidently "busted" it since they couldn't reproduce the effect. Some kids at MIT however, appear to have different results in their seminar class. The yellow line is a paint stripe, btw, not (as I had previously thought) a "death ray." Check out the rest of the story here.