Solar cannon to bake cities from space

During the tumultuous times of World War II, a large number of weapons concepts and plans were devised by various countries, some of which never advanced beyond the theoretical stage. This included a concept developed by German scientists, often called the ‘solar cannon’. The idea was to create a weapon that could harness the power of the sun to cause destruction from orbit. Death rays, although normally considered fiction, real scientists (I’ll leave it to you to decide if they’re crazy or not) have tried to create their own versions of the…