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Computer Mouse
Since the dawn of science, the humble mouse has been mankind's
experimental proxy. When a new cancer drug or perfume is developed, you
can rest assured that countless mice will test it out before people are
allowed to buy it. In order to legitimize the "Death" in Solar Death Ray, it
seemed necessary to test the death ray on someone. And by someone, I
mean a mouse. And by a mouse, I mean a computer mouse.
This was an optical mouse (i.e. no ball). It took
approximately 4 minutes for the Solar Death Ray to
kill this mouse. As you can see, the plastic peeled
open like some kind of cybernetic banana. After
that, the internal circuitry started to fry. A few
capacitors were de-soldered from the mouse and
fell on the ground. I feel confident that similar results
would have been achieved with a biological mouse,
so I'm ready to start human trials.