@HaleakalaCrater@DaemonFools@IceCubeSoup I'm just really impressed by the standing perfectly still while a bull runs at you part. Didn't move an inch other than to bring arms up so they could get broken in that pic (I assume). look at that lift, at least 4 foot vertical... and 20? feet horizontal. Takes some serious dedication for the prize to keep those feet planted like that.
@Reuters ... yeah we totally sent it into orbit, thanks for the quarter million dollars, did you know that also buys you a ride on a submarine to go see the Titanic?
@thatguyoverthere regarding the tension between neighbors, people do strange shit when they're in an HOA. We just watched neighbor states all agree to poison their populations with biological human experiments.
The only way a USG space laser in Antartica could be used to start fires in Quebec, and not start a war between the two nations is if Canada was in on it.... or in the boots on the ground fire starting scenario, then it has to be Canada in it (at some upper/hidden level).
@thatguyoverthere compare the cost/effort of running 20+ operational teams spread across a large geographic area (all possible), vs space laser. One of those two operations has considerably better OpSec than the other.
two weeks ago I was only considering the idea of boots on the ground fire starting. this week I still don't know wtf happened and I'm thinking about space lasers.
@thatguyoverthere Consider the operational logistics of what you describe.
I estimate in the first second of the video that I see 20+ fires starting at the same time spread across a geographic area. If radio's, then we're talking either HF or retransmitted VHF.
If there was broadcasted radio coordination, that was recorded somewhere by someone and I expect we'll eventually get the broadcasts.
how many people would you run per fire? I would think 2 - 4 man teams. Possible.
@thatguyoverthere@Hyolobrika Assuming we're not on a flatearth, the direction of that laser isn't going to work for data transmission to the moon, the recipient endpoint would be directly over the solar pole, else retransmission station positioned there. Maybe satellites (I wonder the data throughput potential, seems substantial?).