Salty Cracker and Wall Street Apes are now insinuating it. The op was a success, they've created a narrative binary where either space lasers did it or climate change (MSM narrative) did it. Meanwhile the much more likely story (strategic arson ahead of high winds + collusion with crooked state and local officials to mishandle the response on purpose) has effectively been shoved under the rug. Now instead of having the entire internet digging into that to possibly find some arsonists or conspiracies to mishandle response, they are instead "laser focused" on space lasers.
Of course, if the DEW theory is correct, this is fine. I just don't think it is.
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Optical wavelengths are not used for laser weapons; they are too inefficient in producing power. If there is enough power, it wouldn't matter what color the target was, because no color is 100% reflective and it would take only a short exposure to say 100 w/cm2 before the paint chars and the absorption coefficient goes up.
The underwater applications are maybe mapping but more likely submarine detection or two-way communication. Not attacking submarines. You are thinking of heating up something that is cooled by a surrounding environment of seawater? Or, you aren't thinking...