Excerpt from the address by the Pres. of Burkina Faso Capt. Ibrahim Traoré to the active forces of the nation, Ouagadougou, July 11, 2024. It has been a LONG time since my sense of the collective unconscious was crushed and GROUND TO ABSOLUTE DUST like this. Every frog, spread this, far and wide!
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🫡 THE GREAT AWAKENING 🔆
Welcome to atmospheric refraction and the 4/3-Earth approximation, known to radar since the 1950s. You are not even in the game.
"High-powered lasers" are a select fraternity. At what test range did you perform such experiments?
Oh, sweetheart - laser light doesn't refract under normal atmospheric conditions, especially enough to make visible a light source behind 500m of alleged curvature lol. These experiments have been repeated over and over again with the same result. There is no curvature because we're on a flat plane.
Well, you have revealed yourself to be a complete fraud. I have had a career in laser systems and laser light sure as hell refracts. A "normal atmosphere" is refractive. So much so, that the sun is actually below the horizon when we see it setting. You will get no traction with me.
I am sorry you are so provincial that you think the Earth is flat. Everyone else from Magellan onward have known it proven otherwise. Especially when we have international shipping, air travel, and orbital travel.
Lol and suddenly he's an expert in laser systems. Fuck off, shill. If you were, you would know that a standard laser beam does not refract along the imaginary curvature of the earth. The ONLY reason you can see the origin of a laser beam from 30km away is that there is NO curvature for the source to be hidden behind.
Not suddenly. Only since the mid-1970s. I edited/rewrote the final proposal for the system that became the YAL-1A Airborne Laser, which shot down a boosting ballistic missile in 2010.
A laser beam is light. Light refracts. The atmospheric density gradient is a refractive index gradient. Refractive index gradients result in curved ray paths. In my university grad work, I was involved with a gasdynamic device that projected a flowfield that could refract a laser beam through a semicircle.
You are the one who doesn't know anything...and are the shill. And nowhere did I say it refracted along the curvature of the Earth, only that it does refract close to the Earth. I guess you must disbelieve in the existence of mirages, also.
And in a NORMAL atmosphere, laser beams DO NOT BEND. It is an empirically objective property of lasers.
A normal atmosphere has a built-in refractive index gradient. I don't know why you are so ignorant of this. The radar community has known about this for a very long time, since they are typically operating at low elevation angles over long distances. They find it convenient to account for the curvature by calculating the beam position as though the radius of the Earth was 4/3rds its true value. Never heard of that? Then you don't know about atmospheric refraction.
Lasers are only light. They are not magically immune to the things that light is subject to. Your problem is that you don't know much about the "normal" atmosphere.