-I won't elaborate on this but I can say with a high degree of confidence that space-based energy weapons are very real.
-Seems odd that President Mashed Potato brains would be read in on this technology. Makes zero sense that they'd share this with him. I would cautiously view this as another example of Patriots being in control of Biden (or whomever this is).
-I have yet to hear any kind of rationale for why the color of the roof would matter in relation to a directed energy weapon. One would expect the materials for the roofs in most areas to be identical, typically asphalt shingles. Different colors have different properties in terms of reflecting certain wavelengths of light of course, but I'm wondering if the roof color/type is more of a marker for whomever is controlling the weapon to avoid. However, that is pure speculation on my part.
Has anyone heard a proper, scientific-based rationale?
I was wondering the same thing. The material would be what blocks the attack not the color. Unless it is a signal to them to miss like you said. I was thinking a metal or ceramic roof might be good but I don't know what building materials are typical in Hawaii.
The roof/umbrella/whatever color reflects the energy since a laser is a single frequency. AFAIK, there are no laser diodes that can change their resonant frequency (except maybe a small tuning) , so they are stuck with a particular frequency once built and deployed. Large laser weapons are made up of many smaller laser diodes that have their beams combined, so this would complicate changing frequency even if possible.
Here's the problem. Suppose that a target surface was 90% reflective at whatever wavelength you care. 10% would still get through and heat up the material. If you are working only at the level of tens of watts, then, yes, the "reflective" panel will survive because the leakage is within its thermal tolerance. Get high enough for weapon effects and the leakage is high enough to degrade the reflectivity and the whole process destroys the target. We studied targets that were mirror-polished metal. At open-fire intensities of a hundred watts/cm2, the leakage was enough to destroy the reflectivity. We dreamed up the possibility of a "cleanly-degrading polymer" coating, and it worked out the same way. The CDP would just evaporate and expose the bare metal again. This was 50 years ago.
But if visible light lasers had been at work, people would have seen the light flashes. No such reports.
A few things here:
-I won't elaborate on this but I can say with a high degree of confidence that space-based energy weapons are very real.
-Seems odd that President Mashed Potato brains would be read in on this technology. Makes zero sense that they'd share this with him. I would cautiously view this as another example of Patriots being in control of Biden (or whomever this is).
-I have yet to hear any kind of rationale for why the color of the roof would matter in relation to a directed energy weapon. One would expect the materials for the roofs in most areas to be identical, typically asphalt shingles. Different colors have different properties in terms of reflecting certain wavelengths of light of course, but I'm wondering if the roof color/type is more of a marker for whomever is controlling the weapon to avoid. However, that is pure speculation on my part.
Has anyone heard a proper, scientific-based rationale?
I was wondering the same thing. The material would be what blocks the attack not the color. Unless it is a signal to them to miss like you said. I was thinking a metal or ceramic roof might be good but I don't know what building materials are typical in Hawaii.
The roof/umbrella/whatever color reflects the energy since a laser is a single frequency. AFAIK, there are no laser diodes that can change their resonant frequency (except maybe a small tuning) , so they are stuck with a particular frequency once built and deployed. Large laser weapons are made up of many smaller laser diodes that have their beams combined, so this would complicate changing frequency even if possible.
Here's the problem. Suppose that a target surface was 90% reflective at whatever wavelength you care. 10% would still get through and heat up the material. If you are working only at the level of tens of watts, then, yes, the "reflective" panel will survive because the leakage is within its thermal tolerance. Get high enough for weapon effects and the leakage is high enough to degrade the reflectivity and the whole process destroys the target. We studied targets that were mirror-polished metal. At open-fire intensities of a hundred watts/cm2, the leakage was enough to destroy the reflectivity. We dreamed up the possibility of a "cleanly-degrading polymer" coating, and it worked out the same way. The CDP would just evaporate and expose the bare metal again. This was 50 years ago.
But if visible light lasers had been at work, people would have seen the light flashes. No such reports.
It's hard to see a laser beam during the day. You can see where it ends bur you usually can't see it's trajectory.
Also CNN would be all over this if anyone reported it. 🙄🤪