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[–] mathemachristian@lemm.ee 78 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If I wrote about conservatives thinking wildfires are caused by a space laser weapon to attack the US I would be asked to not make such ridiculous caricatures but https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66457091

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What really pisses me off, is that directed energy weapons are real, and there are some illnesses that governments believe may be linked to the usage of such thing. Unfortunately even those these are real and you can straight up Google the fucking Wikipedia page for Direct Energy weapons, thanks to the dumbasses on the right, this will never be taken seriously because the second you start talking about them people will just go on about Jewish space lasers.

It's why they had to start calling ufos, uap's, because no one could say UFO without someone else joking about Will Smith dancing with a bunch of CGI aliens.

[–] BaskinRobbins@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Fun fact: Reagon spent over $250B on a space laser program during the cold war. It failed and nothing useful was gained from it.

[–] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Space lasers work and are a great way to destroy other sattelites. His SDI program was way crazier though, X-ray lasers fueled by shaped charge nukes to shoot down ICBMs.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Still more reasonable than Project Pluto. I can't believe how far we got in that particular mistake.

ETA the x-ray lasers were only a part of it. They were throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what stuck.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is the CIA still messing around with psychics?

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Probably.... Does anyone know what the CIA is currently doing?