X-37B Being Launched 5/16/20

Tomorrow will be a busy day at Cape Canaveral. Just got the update that the X-37B will be launched tomorrow morning on an ATLAS V rocket. The X-37B is a secretive unmanned space plane that's now under the launch control of the newly formed branch of the U.S. military, Space Force. Onboard the X-37B will be a solar power to microwave inverter unit that beams energy down to a receptor station on Earth that converts those microwaves into usable power/electricity. Here's an article from 2013 explaining the technology a bit:
inhabitat.com...

Here's a link regarding the launch that's about 11 hours from now:
www.space.com...

Now here's my own speculation. While this solar to microwave research unit is publicly called a power delivery unit to create electricity, as most forms of energy creation it would actually work rather well as an extremely precise energy weapon system. It's basically a microwave laser beam. It could be used to burn a hole straight through the deck and hull of an aircraft carrier, send an entire nation's power infrastructure offline, eliminate multiple airborne ballistic missiles, knock out other satellites in space, or cook the occupants of an SUV traversing the Afghan country side.

I marvel at the fact that Saturday at 8:30AM Cape Canaveral will be the launch site of a ULA Atlas V, and then not even 24 hours later at 5:00AM on Sunday, will launch a SpaceX Falcon 9 carrying another batch of 60 Starlink satellites. We lowly monkeys are doing a great job of demonstrating our ability to navigate off planet!

There was a theory going around about the time of the Cali forest fires that claimed "lasers from space" were setting the blazes. Could the power companies already be testing this sort of thing? Would a forest fire be the end result of a misfired beam of directed energy, supposedly microwave?

EDIT: Just read on one of your links that sending the energy back to earth via laser was contemplated then ABANDONED for microwaves because of the risk of creating fires!

So then if they're sending energy waves, could multiple sources sending energy waves in crisscrossing patterns create a directed scalar weapon?? Even meeting these waves with waves created on earth midair for a more precise vector?

a reply to: chadderson

How often do fires happen in California?

a reply to: Masisoar

How often is a broken clock 'correct' ?

originally posted by: chadderson
There was a theory going around about the time of the Cali forest fires that claimed "lasers from space" were setting the blazes. Could the power companies already be testing this sort of thing? Would a forest fire be the end result of a misfired beam of directed energy, supposedly microwave?

EDIT: Just read on one of your links that sending the energy back to earth via laser was contemplated then ABANDONED for microwaves because of the risk of creating fires!

So then if they're sending energy waves, could multiple sources sending energy waves in crisscrossing patterns create a directed scalar weapon?? Even meeting these waves with waves created on earth midair for a more precise vector?

I seriously doubt that a power company has anything to do with this project. I suspect it probably falls under the auspicious of DARPA.

Scrubbed for today due to weather--- will try again tomorrow

Hopefully waether is better !

originally posted by: chadderson
There was a theory going around about the time of the Cali forest fires that claimed "lasers from space" were setting the blazes. Could the power companies already be testing this sort of thing? Would a forest fire be the end result of a misfired beam of directed energy, supposedly microwave?

EDIT: Just read on one of your links that sending the energy back to earth via laser was contemplated then ABANDONED for microwaves because of the risk of creating fires!

So then if they're sending energy waves, could multiple sources sending energy waves in crisscrossing patterns create a directed scalar weapon?? Even meeting these waves with waves created on earth midair for a more precise vector?

Microwaves can be focused. Sort of like aperture and depth of focus. Soften the focus (wave swell) and it cooks like the microwave in your kitchen. It could cook at the power level of your own microwave kitchen appliances and excited (heat) a 200ft panel safely and ENDLESSLY. But sharpen the focus to say one foot, or even inches, and now you have a laser powered by a star that's capable of exciting heat in a copper substation, metal armor plating, or an engine in an SUV carrying vaccine dissidents across a Nevada desert.

There's a reasons you should never stick metal thingys in that magic frozen dinner cooker and food reheater next to the the cubbard.

Aim it at a water source and you could evaporate water rather quickly. Aim it at a person and you could boil their blood. And you could do it on Power Level 1 or Power Level 9 for One Second or 3 months.