Fact or Fiction Satellite DEWs ?

[Marbles]

@GotDraw? & @22lr thanks for giving serious replies. I could not bring myself to do so. Having worked in military intelligence, my reasons for disbelief follow the same reasoning.

 

[Fatcamp]

Fiction, and bad b horror film fiction at that. Slightly more believable than Sharknado and less believable than Dr. Strangelove.

Sharknado is one of my favorite documentaries.

 

[jspradley]

DEW from space is not currently a thing. Were still trying to get DEW small enough for ships and airplanes. Putting one in orbit (that had enough power to hit the ground with enough energy to start a fire) would be a massive undertaking. Nobody is going to waste that technology (and risk the US seeing it and then provoking an armed response) by using it to start a forest fire. It would be seen as hostile fire on the US mainland... not a good look for someone like China or Russia.

So even if space based DEW was a thing, its just not something thats going to be wasted on starting a forest fire. My $.02.

Exactly what Big DEW wants us to think. Shill...

There is so much evidence that these fires were created by Big DEW, in fact there's mountains of it! Open your eyes sheeple! First they turn the freakin' frogs gay then they burn the world down.

We better wake up before it's too late to undo the DEW

 

[wesfromky]

 

[tuffcity]

The DEW is real....

 

[Huntindog45]

good lord the amount of stupid here is off the charts. I would like to say I cannot believe people believe this BS.. but we have a bunch of just pure stupid people living and breathing and producing more stupid people.

 

[The Ri Guy]

good lord the amount of stupid here is off the charts. I would like to say I cannot believe people believe this BS.. but we have a bunch of just pure stupid people living and breathing and producing more stupid people.

I mean I have a customer that builds anti-satellite weapons that are essentially space rams like in medieval times.

But these Death Star lasers...LOL!

 

[Marbles]

I mean I have a customer that builds anti-satellite weapons that are essentially space rams like in medieval times.

Really? Why a ram rather than a proximity fused warhead? Do satellites have a door that needs to be knocked down like a medieval castle? Who is this customer? Raytheon? Bowing? Northrope Grumman? What exactly do you provide? Parts? Consulting? Sliced deli meat and he told you this over the counter? Would it target the satellite at its parigee or would it be capable of reaching it at apogee? Or would it only target low earth orbits? Or perhaps all geocentric orbits by no elliptical orbits. Does it need a launch vehicle or is this built in? Is it placed in orbit and tasked later, or launched with a calculated intercept?

The smartass questions are do to the lack of detail. Though, I am interested in the actual details if such a weapons system exists, delivery method, guidance system, relative terminal velocity needed for effect, and the why behind its design.

 

[The Ri Guy]

The smartass questions are do to the lack of detail.

NDA -- I provide fluid system components for pressurized lines.

 

[zacattack]

good lord the amount of stupid here is off the charts. I would like to say I cannot believe people believe this BS.. but we have a bunch of just pure stupid people living and breathing and producing more stupid people.

Think about how intelligent the average person is, then realize that half are dumber than that.

 

[EastMT]

I think Rokslide needs to implement a breathalyzer and piss test before logging in......

 

[Marbles]

NDA -- I provide fluid system components for pressurized lines.

Fair enough. Sorry for being a smartass about it.

I think Rokslide needs to implement a breathalyzer and piss test before logging in......

Now to go take the piss test. That is where I measure how far I can get the stream, right?

 

[Opah]

DEWs are real and have been being developed for years, But why be so serious.? Have some fun with it !

High Powered Laser Shoots Down UAV

Air Force experimentation on White Sands Missile Range with the use of high powered microwave and laser systems to shoot down small unmanned aircraft.

www.military.com

 

[CJohnson]

Think about how intelligent the average person is, then realize that half are dumber than that.

lol. That’s not how it works.

 

[Fatcamp]

lol. That’s not how it works.

Close enough to make the point.

 

[jspradley]

Really? Why a ram rather than a proximity fused warhead? Do satellites have a door that needs to be knocked down like a medieval castle? Who is this customer? Raytheon? Bowing? Northrope Grumman? What exactly do you provide? Parts? Consulting? Sliced deli meat and he told you this over the counter? Would it target the satellite at its parigee or would it be capable of reaching it at apogee? Or would it only target low earth orbits? Or perhaps all geocentric orbits by no elliptical orbits. Does it need a launch vehicle or is this built in? Is it placed in orbit and tasked later, or launched with a calculated intercept?

The smartass questions are do to the lack of detail. Though, I am interested in the actual details if such a weapons system exists, delivery method, guidance system, relative terminal velocity needed for effect, and the why behind its design.

I'm not a spaceologist but wouldn't think a warhead would be needed when a kinetic lance moving at a bajilliondy miles an hour in a vacuum would work just as well...

 

[jspradley]

good lord the amount of stupid here is off the charts. I would like to say I cannot believe people believe this BS.. but we have a bunch of just pure stupid people living and breathing and producing more stupid people.

Found the shill!!

 

[zacattack]

lol. That’s not how it works.

I mean it’s not exact but it does illustrate the point.

 

[Opah]

I believe the same idiotic rambles happened with Edison until:

Until it bit them on the ass

 

[caesAR15]

What's next, you going to try to convince us the earth is NOT flat?!?