There is nowhere to go with this. At best, if you assume causation (not randomness), all you have evidence for is RR=>RD, RD=>DD, and DD=>DR. And who knows if this is true?
In reality, we had better hope to God that there is nothing random about it, or human mental independence is a myth.
It's because they don't exist. You haven't established any facts that point to their existence. Assuming they exist is not proof of anything except wishful thinking.
And also because using them in this way is flagrantly ostentatious, unnecessary, and a waste of resources. Nor is there any evidence that the event was possible. I mentioned already that in order to melt all 4 wheels, a supposed DEW would need to attack from opposite sides. Good luck with that one. Or, how do you target a microwave weapon (picking wheels, for example)? You are limited to taking blind shots. (How to you find a target out of the ground clutter? That's a classic problem with radar.) What are the technical requirements to melt the wheels: intensity on target, beam spot diameter, line of sight distance? You haven't even established basic feasibility---and I don't back down from this, because I did target effects analysis for DEWs.
Accuracy to 1 cm is very good (I tip my hat) but completely inadequate for a microwave phased array; the projection field would be an incoherent interference pattern. How about the pointing requirement, satellite to satellite? If the array elements are pointed in uncontrolled or unknown directions, they will be unable to form a coherent beam. A real system would likely need to maneuver to attain the desired array geometry, and any maneuver would degrade the position accuracy. Oh, you could have laser radars between them. But you see that the system has a complexity floor of a GPS satellite, to which is added the complexity of a power generator package, a secure communication system, and a transmitter array. Explain to me again which launches (they are all announced) are candidates for such a satellite---and its orbital parameters. Show that ANY satellite passed overhead at a time consistent with the beginning of the fires.
As for embers, that's what happens in wildfires subject to strong winds. Nothing to cool an ember if it is motionless with respect to the wind that is carrying it. Happened in California. Happened in Tennessee. You can't hide behind the notion that this event was unique and therefore inexplicable.
A verbal claim about a photo of something that was not autopsied? No explanation of circumstances? Ever heard of thermal radiation? Fires emit this all the time. It's how we use them to cook.
Who knows why General Flynn says what he says? I don't have telepathy and neither do you. Moreover, puzzling questions have no definite answer. If I could insert my favorite answer, I would pick a fire-breathing dragon. No fire-breathing dragons? Well, there was a time when received opinion was that there were no okapis, either.
My arguments remain the same. I have provided more detail. You continue to wave your arms.
The International Wound Ballistics Association performed an analysis of the wound ballistics of the Kennedy assassination and concluded that the outcome was consistent with expectations. That was a long time ago, and I would have to dredge my archive to find the article. But the alternative is the implication that two shooters would have had to synchronize their shots, open-loop, within 2.3 seconds of each other, and I see that as being highly improbable.
Given the temperatures that rubber tires burn at, it is extremely probable that they will result in melted wheels. Or explain why the same things happened in the California and Tennessee wildfires.
No theory. Just wild fantasy. Easier to imagine that fire-breathing dragons are phobic about the color blue.
We are what we do when we think no one is watching. Not even God.
No. "Saran" was first discovered and named by Dow Chemical Co. It was a film made from polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC). The product was later acquired by S. C. Johnson & Son, who later substituted polyethyelene for PVDC, which had 3000 times higher oxygen permeability and was not as good a wrapping film as the original formulation. (We should all be happy it did not have the name "sarin.")
I think a Zorro mask would be more appropriate. Or Groucho Marx eyeglasses. Gee, Halloween is not far away...
To rescue them from the child abattoirs. Russian troops who have witnessed them seem to suffer from walking PTSD. They are shaken and aghast even when far distant from what they saw, like it is still before their eyes.
It seems that the GPS satellite position accuracy is determined by terrestrial tracking as an update to its ephemeris. I am quite surprised at this improvement, but decades have passed since I worked with its performance limitations. I can't seem to find any quantitative reference to the ephemeris. The Wikipedia article on GPS ephemeris error analysis suggests that residual errors in satellite position amount to a few meters. I would be grateful if you could reference a source for your information. Even so, this would be problematic for radiation in the 1-5 centimeter band. Moreover, it would not contain pointing information. The final problem is signal timing, which would have to be provided by data link, which would incur latency errors. Still not a solved problem, in my view.
As for wildfires, they are known to leap from tree to tree, or for hot cinders to be blown by wind to outlying targets that catch fire (remember that Maui was windy at the time). No oddity for anyone familiar with wildfires. Just a deadly feature of their behavior. As for sidelobes, that is a stretch, since there is no evidence for a main lobe, and the transmitter positional errors and timing errors would produce a rapidly shifting sidelobe pattern. (This is what we see as "twinkle" from a star; the effect of the star's interference pattern shifting around with the effect of atmospheric refractive turbulence.)
Did your tires burn? Were the rims aluminum or steel? And how would that refute the fact that aluminum rims were melted in the California and Tennesse wildfires? Ignorance is no proof of hypothesis. Just because it didn't happen to you doesn't mean it didn't happen elsewhere---for which there is evidence. This is the logic of "I wasn't stung by a bee...therefore bees don't sting."
You would only need topography if you were shooting blind and open-loop. How do you get your target location...down to the fraction of a meter? This is not the method for a directed energy weapon, which requires target sensing and feedback during the shot. The scenario is magical, because all wheels were melted---which would require at least two separate---and opposing---lines of sight to the target. The target aiming spots (two on each side) would had to have been each about a meter in diameter (no melting of the body). Explain to me the wavelength, aperture diameter, shot duration, time window of opportunity, and orbital altitude for this engagement scenario. It may seem "unreasonable," but everything about DEWs depends crucially on details. Getting any one of them wrong means the shot will not be possible. I did this for a living.
So, which were these satellites? Each one would have to be tracked and equipped as a GPS class satellite, be equipped with an array aperture meters in diameter, and a powerplant and heat rejection system to operate at megawatt levels or greater. Something like that would be conspicuous as hell to any nation that monitors our launches, and there would be comment and question. Crickets.
Tires are still enough. The interior was gutted by fire, so even if the seat cushions were removed, there would still be the interior coverings. Have you read about the California and Tennessee cases?
The only scam is this video, by a nitwit who doesn't have the first idea about aerodynamics or gas turbine propulsion. His primary claim---that the wings are not large enough to hold the stated fuel--is demolished by the facts. The wing area of an Airbus 380 is 845 square meters. If the average thickness of the wing is taken to be 1 meter (thin at the tips, much thicker at the root), that would give the same number in cubic meters. A cubic meter holds 1000 liters, so this would imply that the wing would have volume on the order of 845,000 liters. The specification fuel capacity is 323,546 liters---plenty of room for the fuel. The entire wing is essentially filled with fuel, and baffles to prevent sloshing. So much for "common sense"...if the ability to do arithmetic is not included in common sense.
The fact of the matter is that the engine thrust is sized by take-off (acceleration) and landing (high-drag lift augmentation). It does not operate at that thrust level during cruising flight---but cruising flight is the purpose for the fuel burn. His notion that the airplane simply glides without thrust is nonsense.
I am an aeronautical engineer, and have worked for one of the largest manufacturers of commercial jet aircraft. There is no secret technology involved. Read a good introductory book on flight, aerodynamics, and propulsion, and you will be educated. Take this video seriously, and you deserve to wear a Dupe medal around your neck.
The only hoax here is this video. Tesla never proved anything with his Wardenclyffe installation.
My understanding is that the term arose from the existing body of international law, in which case "natural born" would mean only that the birth was from parents who were both citizens (for the reason you state, to preclude any foreign obligation by birth). The requirement on ordinary citizenship is either (a) birth in the United States or its territories, or (b) birth wherein one or both parents are citizens. My cousin was born in France of an American mother and a French father and has both American citizenship and French citizenship.
Only certain kinds of glass melt at higher temperature (e.g., fused quartz), not auto glass. For one thing, the auto glass incorporates a transparent layer of plastic (anti-shatter) that would certainly melt. You should read a little more.
The burning temperatures of gasoline and rubber are in the high 2000s. More than enough to melt anything with a lower melting temperature. The videos also evidence the fact that all the upholstery was burned up, which also releases heat.
Look for wider examples. This same kind of thing was observed in the California "Camp Fire" wildfire and the Tennessee wildfires.
(1) You would have to know the element positions to within an accuracy less than a wavelength of the radiation, and also have a time base that is accurate to less than the inverse of the frequency. This is possible if you have a monolithic system. It is practically impossible for two (or more) units that are separately located, with unknown and dynamic spacing, and separate time bases. Microwave wavelengths are typically on the order of centimeters. You would be lucky to know the position of another satellite to within meters. And you would have no way of knowing which way its boresight is pointed. I don't see that you would have any way of knowing which way YOUR boresight should be pointed (to aim at a target, and not just spray an entire island).
(2) There are no satellites with these capabilities, because of point (1). The burden is on you to put the finger on likely culprits. And see where they were at the times in question. This is the kind of detective work that is hard to do, but seems (by some) justifiable to just hand-wave.
(3) Just do an internet search. It didn't take me long to find examples of this from the California "Camp Fire" wildfire, and the Tennessee wildfires. Easy to do if the automobile gasoline tank fails under the environment, leaks, and ignites, also lighting the tires.
(4) Aiming is tough, especially if you have no means of seeing what you are trying to shoot.
(5) You don't need LIDAR if you have topographic maps. But you may want to conduct an experiment to compare LIDAR results to known topography. The point being: LIDAR was not needed for any imaginary DEW. And there is no logical basis for thinking that the LIDAR sats were weapons.
(6) Which is why the concept is unworkable. Not to mention the significant problem of orbital coordination.
(Edit) You are thinking of the notion of a sparsely-filled array. You can get something, but not for nothing. The resolution will not approach the diffraction limit.
Sorry about the fact that we are all "anons" out here. Have no fear. I am generally engaged in educating the populace about technology mythology.
The gasoline in the automobile tanks catching fire and burning beneath the car, and also setting alight the rubber tires. The melting point of automotive glass is about the same as the melting point of the cast aluminum wheels, substantially below the flame temperature of gasoline and rubber.
You are an example of someone who seems experience-free. I worked on DEWs for decades, with the objective of melting through aluminum fuselages. It does not require recondite theories of how metal is heated. The fact of the matter is that even shiny aluminum is not perfectly reflective, so you simply have to provide enough intensity on target that you manage to get about 4 watts/cm2 absorbed by the target. The rest is ineluctable. But aluminum is a lot more shiny when incided by microwaves, so the overall power requirement is higher.
As for fire, you have no appreciation of wild fires, which are notorious for freaks of combustion resulting from the fact that the "fire" is a 3-dimensional volume of space that is being twisted and convected by its own physics. This is not only "plausible," it is a fact of life. We have forest fires in the Pacific Northwest, and big ones at that, though we don't get on the national news all the time. Do you have any idea what it means when a forest has been soaking in hot summer days, exuding isoprene? It makes the very air semi-flammable. I took a drive into the mountains one summer day and stopped at a stream crossing to stretch my legs. Trees all around (conifers). When I stepped out of the car, it was like I had stuck my head in a bucket of turpentine. Absolutely no mystery why there are red flag fire warning days.
No, I don't think anything has changed. It is more a matter of the uneducated looking at something for the first time and being amazed.
And there must be something about "getting a leg up on the other guy"...
This has potential for a rather sick comedy routine.
The Russians are calm. The Ukrainians are frantic, and amplify any advance on the front as a portent of a glorious victory. The Russians show the map of the breakaway provinces, all under Russian control, except for some pimples where the Ukrainians have advanced---not far---with harrowing losses. The Russians have accomplished the first British Challenger tank loss (German Leopards are such easy prey). Ukraine is so far running out of men to conscript, they are now conscripting women. Does a Russian soldier fear a woman soldier? Does a bear fear a fox?
Not a credible proposal. No such satellites have been launched---and, if you think they have been, kindly provide the satellite designations, launch dates, and orbital parameters, particularly inclination and altitude. And proof that such satellites could be close enough (how close?) for long enough (how long?) in any mutual passage over Maui. Generally, for LEO satellites, you have only minutes to pass from horizon to horizon.
Phased arrays exist, but only as monolithic systems (one emitter). Two things are essential about phased arrays: a rigid and constant-dimensioned framework for the array elements, and a common, high-precision timebase. We do not have the technology to control these elements for two, independent arrays. The net result of current methods is that all you will get will be "side lobes."
Metal reflects microwaves, so in order to melt aluminum, you would have to scorch the rest of the island at maybe 40 watts/cm2, or 0.4 megawatt/meter2. And this would be a much larger spot than a square meter, because small target spots would require a large satellite aperture. So, the requirements for power and aperture are prohibitive,.
The video of the melted wheels is sheer ignorance and proves nothing about DEWs or side lobes. Similar effects have been observed at the California "Camp Fire" wildfire and the recent wildfire in Tennessee (I have posted the photos elsewhere on this site). At some point, you have to realize that is is a commonplace occurrence at wildfires.
I spent decades working on laser DEWs, and spent time on the AWACS program studying how to mount phased-array antennas on the airframe for a communications link. The more off-axis you point the beam, the less the intensity of the beam becomes. There is also the interesting and non-trivial problem of pointing the beam. At present, such beams are the mainstay of radar systems, which are all about pointing and detecting. In order to have a microwave DEW, it would have to be also an imaging radar system---which is very hard to implement, since the beamwidth would have to be as small as the desired observable resolution of the image. Back to big aperture again, and extreme precision on the timing of the wavefront phasing. Frankly, there is no way to show that you would be able to hit a discrete target, unless you simply wanted to flood-illuminate the target. It would be easier to drop napalm bombs.
Oh, and why would a LIDAR be necessary, if you already had access to surveyed topographic maps? You are just throwing everything into the kitchen sink in hopes of making a souffle.
Not by any means a high power laser. The "research" is studies into atmospheric propagation of laser beams, which does not require "high power" at all---and in fact would be compromised by high power. The actual equipment in use for telescopic studies is the so-called "guidestar" laser that is used to probe the atmosphere to determine its refractivity (it causes fluorescence of a layer of sodium atoms high in the atmosphere). All these systems point upward. Pointing downward would constitute a safety hazard.
I am doubtful the Lahaina is "visible" from the Peterson facility. The topography has a high, mountainous "West Maui Forest Reserve" between it and Lahaina.
And people claim the Russians have no sense of humor. "Mayonnaise" indeed!
I wondered what you were referring to. It turns out that an Anon (worth his name) did some background research regarding the plane's flight path and discovered that it indeed was behind that building. No CGI (pre-CGI). It is a simple consequence of what amounts to a telescopic picture. At a sufficiently far distance, the focal plane is the same for everything in view and it all looks like it is at the same distance. I noticed this strange effect in TV coverage of football games when I was growing up in the 1950s: the spectators in the stands looked as large as the players on the field. Distance suppresses the perspective effect.
So, wannabee "anons" can hug their conspiracy blankets and decry "CGI" when this was all before that technology was available, and a real anon dug into the picture and the flight path and discovered that the image was real.