Las Vegas Hotel Burns Guests with “Death Ray”!
bear the brunt: to experience the worst part of something bad
A hotel in Las Vegas is burning its guests—literally. The Vdara Hotel’s design causes sunlight to focus on one spot by the pool, making it dangerously hot. They call it the “death ray.” People sitting there have had their hair singed and their skin burnt.
The problem is caused by the hotel’s curved glass. The sun’s rays hit the building, and the curved windows act like a magnifying glass. This makes the sun’s heat focus on one small area, causing extreme heat. Guests who sit in the wrong spot bear the brunt of this intense heat. The hotel tried to fix the problem with special film on the windows and by putting up big umbrellas.
An architect named Rafael Viñoly designed the hotel. He also designed a building in London with the same problem. There, the curved glass again created a death ray so hot that it melted parts of a parked car on the street. People wondered why the famed architect made the same mistake twice.
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