Someone tell Marjorie Taylor-Green! The French are in league with the Jews!
For whoever downvoted this, if it's out of concern about our resident airborne cephalopod engaging in antisemitism, I believe that he's poking fun at Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Back in 2018, before Marjorie Taylor Greene was a household name and a member of Congress, she took to Facebook to share a convoluted conspiracy theory. She suggested that a solar energy laser generator was being used by Pacific Gas and Electric, in collaboration with figures like Jerry Brown and Dianne Feinstein’s husband, to clear land in rural California for a $77 billion high-speed railway. She highlighted a connection between a board member of PG&E and Rothschild, Inc. The insinuation was clear to many: The Rothschilds, a historically wealthy Jewish family, were behind this nefarious plot.
You believe correctly.
By repeating their rhetoric, even as a joke, it's just giving oxygen to people who don't deserve any form of publicity whatsoever. It would be better not to reference these batshit-insane conspiracy theories and then perhaps they would die more quickly.
This story is about French/space/communications/technology. Not American/politics/racist/conspiracy. Not one genre overlap, so there's no reason to even bring it up here. Maybe leave these jokes to the American politics threads.
This story is about French/space/communications/technology. Not American/politics/racist/conspiracy. Not one genre overlap
It’s about the one overlap that you missed out: frickin space lasers
The overlap is the "space lasers" part, and it's a joke.
It was already made, and it's over now, meaning you're the one perpetuating this shift in focus, look at the responses you generated.
Surely any rational individual already acknowledges that subject as lunacy. The segment of people that after seeing the joke would fall victim to the conspiracy is bound to be smaller than the segment that find it mildly amusing.
Let us have our fun.
Cool, but I'm not sure what they're claiming to be first at. NASA did 200 Gbps over a year ago: https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/ames/nasa-partners-achieve-fastest-space-to-ground-laser-comms-link/
While the experiment is not the first for space-to-Earth laser communications, it’s the first using a commercially available ground station, according to Morizur.
The article should have mentioned the NASA test, though
You just know someone in the chain wanted to be able to say, 'we were the first', then they got fact checked and had to add in that qualifier of commercially available ground station.
they can’t be jammed the way radio can.
I wonder how well these satellite laser links do with various types of cloud cover.
As long as every terrestrial node isn't experiencing overcast skies, it should be okay.
And how another laser could be used to overload the receiver on the satellite.
If you shroud the receiver you would block all but the closest bad actors
Me stargazing when the laser suddenly gets a misalignment error
(⌐■_■)
Expanse tight beams are on their way
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