Which came first?
The roasted chicken or the fried egg?
"Game-Changer:" High-Powered Laser Steers Lightning Bolts "For First Time"
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"A team led by Aurélien Houard, a physicist at École Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France, experimented on the Säntis mountain in north-eastern Switzerland in the summer of 2021 with a high-repetition-rate terawatt laser."
"Between 21 July and 30 September 2021, the laser was operated during a total of 6.3 h of thunderstorm activity occurring within 3 km of the tower."
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-022-01139-z
George Floyd Mural Struck By Lightning In Toledo, Ohio - 14 July 2021
George Floyd mural crumbles after witnesses say lightning hit it
https://www.foxnews.com/us/george-floyd-mural-destroyed-toledo-lightning
More articles:
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=george+floydd+murial+hit+by+lightning&ia=web
Youtube links:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=george+floyd+mural+lightning+
The late news story covers up the event that already occurred but was kept silent as to sow doubt. Imagine if the news first runs that lightning can be directed, and then the strike occurs? Accusations of intentionally targeting the mural. But if it was targeted, and the news breaks after, then nobody links the two.