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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No one likes that idea. You being the authority on lasers does not rule out the possibility they were used to start this fire. You won't convince people to stop discussing this. And they shouldn't until something is proved. Beyond me why you want rule anything out. Anything
Whether I am an authority or not should make no difference. The important aspect is that THERE IS NO EVIDENCE. Surmise and imagination are not evidence. And this notion of DEWs is very tricky, because the nature of a DEW is not to leave much evidence. It is in the same category as Menehunes. You say DEWs exist, and they do. But so do elephants, and they didn't start the fires. You may say Menehunes don't exist---but how do you know? Revenge against the white man? Another theory is giant fire arrows from arbalests, straight out of the 12th century. Perfectly feasible. Evidence is self-consuming. You could drag out a particle accelerator and spray the trees with hot electrons. Where's the evidence? If you are not going to rule anything out, you are going to have to keep book on all these alternatives. Somebody dropping jars of phosphorus from light planes. Somebody driving around shooting off flamethrowers or tossing traffic flares. Need I continue?
Do you see what I am trying to explain? You have to base allegations about reality on evidence pertinent to the case. Right now, it comes down to stray downed power lines or/and a conspiracy of arsonists...but we have evidence for the former and only imagination for the latter. I am trying to coax anons away from unsupported but favorite delusions, because a delusory understanding of reality is a contradiction in terms.
Feasible causes need to be talked about. It's that simple. Don't try to muzzle someone bc you don't agree. And how do you know a rogue circus elephant didn't start the fire. It's feasible
When it is not feasible, it should be dropped. All this talk of DEWs is at the level of mythology. More than not feasible, it is not evidentiary. And more than not evidentiary, it is delusory. People are not arguing it out of a prompting from evidence; they are arguing it out of an urge for it to be true. It is all wishful thinking. Nobody likes their fondest desire to be squashed by cold reality.
There is no mystery. It has now been reported that the power lines were sparking. As someone who lives in wooded territory that gets dry in the summer, I can vouch for sparks being all that is necessary. Add a steady strong wind, and it is like a draft in a fireplace. The fire spreads because the flames are blown to the next victim.
As for the wealthy types, were their desires not always in place? We know that Hawaii had designated Maui for some kind of rebuild. The fire is just a convenient pretext to put plans in motion---but the plans were out in the open, and the citizens of Hawaii were good with them. Stupid, to be sure, but complacent and unresisting.
People with first hand knowledge disagree with you. No matter how hard YOU try you won't stop people from talking about this. Things don't add up and you look like an idiot rulling something out. https://youtu.be/Q9L9WvlCli0?si=snLuaoe_Ipj6_UKW