Completely bogus. As mentioned below, the satellite motion does not conform to the narrative. They pass over Midway Island, if they pass over anything. No discussion of the elevation angle of any laser beams. Below 30 degrees is generally regarded as being unreliable due to atmospheric absorption and refraction effects. And if you will notice, the passage is over with in a matter of seconds. Might as well track the motion of airliners as well. (It also proves out my standing contention that a satellite weapon cannot fire at a target from opposite sides, as would be required to melt ALL the wheels on an automobile.)
The laser claims are the worst, as there is no evidence for any of it. I can say with certainty that no 10 MW lasers are active in space, having been familiar with the system designs originally proposed in the 1980s and with the actual high-power laser constructed for YAL-1A in the 2000s. Anyone with a book on physics can dream up an imaginary weapon and pose as an expert. If he were an expert, he would realize that an infrared laser would have maximal interaction with anything painted a dark color---where "dark" effectively means anything other than white or aluminum. That, for me, was the tip-off that this guy is an empty hat. The idea that you can stuff a 10-MW laser into a 40,000-lb satellite is also sheer fancy. That alone was the weight of the beam generator on the YAL-1A, not counting everything else that would be required (optical train, beam pointing telescope, reactant storage / power supply, etc.).
"Well, it could have been...the way I imagined it," is not an argument. It is a fantasy.
Completely bogus. As mentioned below, the satellite motion does not conform to the narrative. They pass over Midway Island, if they pass over anything. No discussion of the elevation angle of any laser beams. Below 30 degrees is generally regarded as being unreliable due to atmospheric absorption and refraction effects. And if you will notice, the passage is over with in a matter of seconds. Might as well track the motion of airliners as well. (It also proves out my standing contention that a satellite weapon cannot fire at a target from opposite sides, as would be required to melt ALL the wheels on an automobile.)
The laser claims are the worst, as there is no evidence for any of it. I can say with certainty that no 10 MW lasers are active in space, having been familiar with the system designs originally proposed in the 1980s and with the actual high-power laser constructed for YAL-1A in the 2000s. Anyone with a book on physics can dream up an imaginary weapon and pose as an expert. If he were an expert, he would realize that an infrared laser would have maximal interaction with anything painted a dark color---where "dark" effectively means anything other than white or aluminum. That, for me, was the tip-off that this guy is an empty hat. The idea that you can stuff a 10-MW laser into a 40,000-lb satellite is also sheer fancy. That alone was the weight of the beam generator on the YAL-1A, not counting everything else that would be required (optical train, beam pointing telescope, reactant storage / power supply, etc.).
"Well, it could have been...the way I imagined it," is not an argument. It is a fantasy.