France tests space lasers for secure satellite downlink in world first (www.defensenews.com)
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MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 23:32 next collapse
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FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 23:34 next collapse

Someone tell Marjorie Taylor-Green! The French are in league with the Jews!

tal@lemmy.today on 15 Sep 23:44 next collapse

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.

jewishjournal.com/…/jewish-space-lasers-and-the-h…

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.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 15 Sep 23:45 next collapse

You believe correctly.

ravhall@discuss.online on 16 Sep 03:55 collapse

Kiss that mods ass.

FlyingSquid@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 09:16 collapse

It’s true. Anyone who kisses my ass by properly explaining what I meant gets an official “you believe correctly” from this moderator.

ravhall@discuss.online on 16 Sep 14:37 collapse

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drspod@lemmy.ml on 16 Sep 02:24 collapse

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.

ravhall@discuss.online on 16 Sep 03:54 next collapse

Let us have our fun.

nogooduser@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 06:22 next collapse

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

JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 12:00 next collapse

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.

WoahWoah@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 15:28 collapse

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.

catloaf@lemm.ee on 15 Sep 23:41 next collapse

Cool, but I’m not sure what they’re claiming to be first at. NASA did 200 Gbps over a year ago: nasa.gov/…/nasa-partners-achieve-fastest-space-to…

Skua@kbin.earth on 16 Sep 00:38 collapse

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

JoshuaFalken@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 12:05 collapse

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.

drspod@lemmy.ml on 16 Sep 02:25 next collapse

they can’t be jammed the way radio can.

I wonder how well these satellite laser links do with various types of cloud cover.

Tikiporch@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 05:00 next collapse

As long as every terrestrial node isn’t experiencing overcast skies, it should be okay.

merlin@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 08:33 collapse

And how another laser could be used to overload the receiver on the satellite.

Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 09:08 collapse

If you shroud the receiver you would block all but the closest bad actors

Shard@lemmy.world on 16 Sep 07:08 next collapse

Me stargazing when the laser suddenly gets a misalignment error

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Goodie@lemmy.world on 17 Sep 09:32 collapse

Expanse tight beams are on their way