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[–] Cleanhobo 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Meh... Fire is hot. I have seen pumice soil turned to glass after wild-fires. Did Santa Rosa touch off a few areas to clear the way and get free funding for their pet project... DEFINITELY. DEFINITELY they would do that. Does it require a deeply illegal space weapon to start stuff on fire in Cali in August? Nope.. Just a mexican with a can of gas and a book of matches... really. You can level any place in California with that. Like adding another 1000 degrees would make a difference... Nope. YOu are looking at scorched earth either way. But fuck it... Lets talk about Satellites on orbit... This IS SOMETHING I KNOW A FEW THINGS ABOUT... So you know... I am not talking out of my ass.... I was a satellite controller in Colorado Springs. I flew GEO comm satellites and near polar imaging constellations as well. One of the most difficult things to manage on a Satellite is POWER. Pretty much the whole thing is built like a Prius. Power conservation at all expenses... So think about how much raw energy would be needed to make a space weapon that could light a camp-fire let alone a forest fire through miles and miles of atomosphere... This thing MUST be nuclear powered or use an exotic technology like LENR or ZPE. Nothing else would provide enough power to get the job done. Nuclear is out of the quesiton. If you build a nuclear one it woudl have an advanced and tiny propultion system. This would be a prize to any nation with a space capability... They would just send up a shuttle and capture it. simple as that. Don't think that doesn't happen because it does. Same if it had exotic tech. It would be captured. See this is the problem with secrets. You can't really USE them because its obvious and if you DO use it then it can be stolen and you can't bitch because it doesn't exist right? Right. Anyway.. There are DEW systems that were made at Kirtland AFB in the late 90s and early 2000s that will fit on a plane. That system could start a wild-fire but again... WHY ?? WHY TAKE THE RISK...??? LIterally a mexican with a can of gas and a book of matches will have the same effect.