In my opinion, the video is very clear. Nearby sodium lighting experienced a surge of power at nearly the same time as the Guidestones exploded into pieces, indicating a powerful electric field in the area.
There was no orange flash indicating high explosives and no saboteurs were caught on camera.
A lightning strike can be ruled out because there was none in the area at the time of the strike. Even if it was lightning, the time of the strike, 4:03.33, is a message only capable of being delivered by a DEW, which travel at 186,000 miles per second.
If it is known that this was a DEW strike, that would mean the US Military is responsible. They are the only ones with the available technology and control of Theater.
I had strong suspicions about the strike on the George Floyd mural for similar reasons.
I believe the fruits of POTUS45's formation of Space Force are now being realized.
Study DEW strikes. This is exactly what they look like. Them cleaning it up so fast is to hide their shame and move on asap. They wanted this monument to stand as a witness of defiance and "We warned you" in silence. The last thing they want right now is for the public to go Netherlands farmer/ Marvin Heemeyer on them.
Since there are no "DEW strikes" you have no idea what they "look like." I have designed laser weapons and analyzed target effects. This is not it.
Optics/photonics systems engineer with some materials knowledge, here.
Curious to know: What aspects did you design & in what area of the spectrum? And were the systems primarily ground, ship, air, or space-based? (Asking only if you can disclose, of course.)
I ask because I disagree with you & think DEW is possible, but my reasons are primarily based in theory as opposed to direct application.
If your expertise is primarily in one focus area or part of the spectrum, then there’s likely a lot more options to be explored & I’d say the jury is still out, haha.
Look up YAL-1A for the biggest one I worked on. All laser weapons are in shortwave infrared, 1-10 microns, for reasons of efficiency and effectiveness. Ground and ship weapons at 100 kW levels are in trials. Megawatt-class weapons have come and gone, thanks to President Obama. (I also did optical engineering before I moved to weapons.)
It's not possible for operational reasons. Nobody is going to take a mobile laser weapon for a joyride to try and conduct lethality experiments against slabs of stone. There is no reason to think that the observed effects would be possible (part of my job was target effects analysis).
Lasers are impeded by clouds, smoke, dust, and shrubbery. They are also clear-weather systems generally designed to seek and engage heat signatures. I've worked DEWs since the late 1970s. There are no other options within that category.
Thanks for this.
Coincidentally, I’m also studying IR, but I’m still new and haven’t been able to do as much background research as I would like. I’m also interested in several other areas (some totally unrelated), so my knowledge base is more spread & less concentrated. Thus, my experience (and the fact that a lot of this sort of research is under some sort of clearance to which I don’t currently have access) limits me with respect to what has or hasn’t already been done. I could learn & benefit a lot from asking you about your experience if you don’t mind me asking. Can I DM you to ask more specific questions?
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So far, I’m aware of degraded environment limits & the ship laser experiments, as I was able to study that much background at least. I know a couple people who are actively exploring getting around atmospheric degradation & deeper penetration of atmosphere, water, and earth. This was a while ago, so I don’t think it’s impossible, but I haven’t had the chance to keep up with specifics. I thought about a low-flying plane or drone with a DEW: I think that could be more plausible since the distance could be greatly decreased resulting in less beam spread. And I checked the weather—The conditions were ideal in that area that day, so there’s that. While there can be issues coordinating with a moving plane & target, an immobile target seems to ease things greatly. Some of my study has been in target identification, and there have been several advances in AI to make this significantly easier, too. But if not air/space, I also considered a land-based vehicle under cover of night with a clear view—The stones are in an open field with lots of farmland surrounding & few trees, so I would suspect shrubbery is less of an issue.
I don’t see why it’s not operationally possible for a military that has so many resources (albeit, not unlimited), and I don’t see, based on my knowledge of chemistry, rocks/minerals, and simple granite laser lithography research papers, why the effects we saw wouldn’t be possible… Can’t be too hard to buy a granite rock, ship it to base, and zap it with your in-house experimental weapon a bunch of times to see what happens, then follow it up with field tests if it shows promise. You might not even need a large scale experiment to create something that is effective.
I apologize if I seem to be harping on about this and am annoying you with it. I am naturally a thorough person who likes to explore every possibility down to the last detail, and I happen to be stubborn enough to see it through… (Especially if it something doesn’t seem to match my intuition based on my perspective of the bigger picture.) I suppose my thinking out loud like this is my version of creative thought experiments. Maybe it’s just my lack of experience, or maybe I’m just a stubborn, nit-picky optimist, but it still seems like there’s possibility there to me.
Regardless, I really appreciate your feedback.