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Originally Posted by Philip Argy
Where on the ATSB website is the report of this investigation? I can't see anything there to substantiate this story and my limited knowledge of optics suggests that the dimesnions of a bottle of water renders it incapable of focussing the sun's rays akin to the convex lens in a magnifying glass. I suppose a near empty bottle with a concave base could plausibly approximate such a lens but I'd like to see any report that reached such a conclusion.
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What if the bottle is squashed or deformed in such a way to produce a focal point onto a bit of paper. Sounds like we need the Mythbusters crew for this one.