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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If you work out the optics...it doesn't work. The solar image spot would have a diameter equal to the angular extent of the sun times the focal length of the optics. The only reason a magnifying lens works is because the focal length is very small and it is possible to concentrate the sunlight. The focal length of a satellite-based optical system would be on the order of hundreds of kilometers. The angular diameter of the sun is about 0.54 degree, or nearly 0.01 radian. This means the solar disk diameter from a satellite 200 km distant would be 2 km. The collector size on the satellite would have to be much larger than that in order to get any amplification of the light. And during nighttime, no sunlight in low Earth orbit. How hard would it be? Next to impossible.