Teen‘s Homemade ’Death Ray’ Melts Cans, Rocks, and Sets Logs on Fire

(By Jonathon M. Seidl, The Blaze) - If this is real, it’s quite incredible.

Meet 19-year-old Eric Jacqmain. He’s a typical kid from Indiana, except for one small difference: he built a death ray that he says can “melt steel, vaporize aluminum, boil concrete, turn dirt into lava, and obliterate any organic material in an instant.” And he’s got a video that reportedly shows all this things happening. Really.

“The R5800 is my latest and greatest solar creation,” Jacqmain writes in the YouTube description of his video. “Made from an ordinary fiberglass satellite dish, it is covered in about 5800 3/8″ (~1cm) mirror tiles. When properly aligned, it can generate a spot the size of a dime with an intensity of 5000 suns!”