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West Coast Wildfires: Caused By Orbital Laser Weapons?

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Some months ago we were treated to the insanity of the "Jewish space lasers" claims associated with the QAnon stuff. Now an independent conspiracy theorist has proposed a similar explanation for the destruction of a town in British Columbia.
Conspiracy theorist claims burned-out town was targeted by 'orbital super weapon'

Devastating wildfires have cut a swathe of destruction across America’s West Coast reaching as far north as Canada, as a blistering heatwave has left many wooded areas as dry as tinder.

With more than 3 million acres burned across the US alone, people are looking for an explanation. ...

The Canadian town of Lytton has been virtually wiped off the map by a flash fire that took little more than half an hour to make its population homeless.

Conspiracy theorist Kyle Cardinal believes that the town was targeted by an orbital super weapon.

In a now-deleted Facebook Live video Cardinal toured the burned-out town, pointing out how the fire had destroyed some trees and yet passed some others by: “It's going to be hard to convince me this wasn't somehow purposeful,” he said. ...

He added, though, that he should be careful about exposing the international conspiracy: “I might get directed energy weaponed.” ...
FULL STORY: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/conspiracy-theorist-claims-burned-out-24693427
 
I live in south central British Columbia. Forest fires are burning to the north,, south, east . . . . well, all around us really. A monster fire to the north of us has burned 55,000 hectares of forest, more or less destroyed the village of Monte Lake, and now threatens Vernon, the town to the north of us with a population of 40,000. We've had a few half-hearted rain showers in the last two days but they scarcely made a dent.

There's absolutely no need to postulate any kind of directed energy weapons for any of this. The reasons are pretty straightforward, though complex; several weeks of hot, dry weather resulting in tinder-dry forest conditions; poor forest management resulting in lots of dead fuel and dry underbrush on the ground; and as direct causes, mostly either lightning or idiots throwing away cigarette butts - or even lighting campfires, in direct contravention of a total campfire ban all across southern B.C. The Lytton fire was somewhat unusual in that it seems to have been caused by sparks from the brakes of a freight train, though we'll know more when it's been thoroughly investigated.

So - sorry, but no space lasers, nothing esoteric, just human stupidity for the most part; there's rarely a need to invoke conspiracy when sheer human incompetence and stupidity are sufficient.

And really, why, on Earth, would any gang of conspirators want to destroy an obscure, tiny village like LYTTON, fer Chrissake? - makes no sense at all.
 
I strongly suspect there is at least one group of aliens doing graduate-level studies of the seemingly limitless capacity we humans have for denial.

Can't deal with the reality of climate change and the consequences of our actions over the past several generations? Just make up some stupid shit about a mysterious group somewhere with supervillain tech and no coherent motive causing it all instead. Where's Superman now, anyway?
 
Maybe the birds are shot down by the lasers rather than being electrocuted? Either way this current news is shocking.

In 2014, a wildfire ripped through central Chile, destroying 2500 homes and killing at least 13 people.

A year later, a blaze in Idaho burned more than 4000 hectares, an area nearly 12 times the size of New York City’s Central Park. Both conflagrations had one thing in common: Experts believe they were started by birds.

Our feathered friends love to perch on power lines, which can be a great place to rest and launch an attack. But if a bird touches the wrong wires together, or somehow forms an electrical pathway to the ground, it can get fried. Falling to the floor like winged Molotov cocktails, birds can spark an inferno if they hit an especially dry, tindered patch of earth.

More than three dozen fires started this way in the United States from 2014 to 2018, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet of such blazes. “The ecological and economic losses are substantial,” says Antoni Margalida, a conservation biologist at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology who has studied the impacts of wildfires caused by birds and other fauna in Spain but who was not involved with the work.

Humans are responsible for the vast majority of wildfires in the United States. Lightning and even heat from the Sun can also spark blazes. But flaming birds have gotten less attention. ...

https://www.science.org/content/article/electrocuted-birds-are-sparking-wildfires
 
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