Happy Georgia Guide Stone destruction day! 🎉Today, July 6th, is the one year anniversary of their being blown up. 💥
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Same here. I live fairly close to the area on the SC side of the Savannah River so I was particularly interested. That looked more like a airborne strike than a set charge explosion. That flash of light pre-blast was very interesting. My first thought was a DEW strike.
Mine, too...WH's send 'Rods from God'! 💥What a spectacular moment that was...makes me want to watch it again! I'm still pumped!
They don't exist. Please stop imagining these things, which were only ever a fictional suggestion. It would be a pain in the ass to even build them, and there would be no confidence they would do anything but penetrate.
like George Floyd's mural getting struck by lighting?! haha!
Which would mean that you don't understand it at all, since DEWs of the laser variety are primarily in the infrared spectrum. Microwave weapons are not anywhere near as powerful as would be required to produce an explosive reaction. And a laser DEW might attempt to melt the rock. No divinity needed for an ordinary explosion.
First, there were no "California DEWs." The fires were strong enough to melt cars.
Hard to say whether even a megawatt-class laser could perform the feat. It could probably melt an area of the rock. But it would have to happen really fast in order to cause the rock to fracture from thermal expansion. Hypothetically, a pulsed laser might be able to impart an impulse, but research into that area dwindled in the 1970s (lots of problems).
When in doubt, a "blunt object" works just fine, and a satchel charge of even dynamite would be dandy.
Yep, divine act
I agree. I don't have the answer, just best guesses and speculation.