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Directed Energy Weapons(self)

24 points23 points26 points submitted by FThumbStay thirsty, my friends

NetweaselContinuing the struggle 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 8 months ago

What remains suspicious are homes reduced to ash while the trees surrounding them retained their needles and small branches

Fire and wind combined does weird things, but it does not usually do that. There's usually a path. Most likely, either someone torched their own home for the insurance money and the fire didn't get there, or you saw selective footage that did not show how the fire got to the home in question. The fire could have gone in one slim finger to the house, torched it and stopped. Then the film shows a 350 degree angle around the house of unburned trees.

Huge wildfires have done stranger things. Such as embers reaching a house from above and creating a firenado.

FThumbStay thirsty, my friends[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 8 months ago

Now look at the massive Banyan tree in the video. Structures on all three sides reduced to ashes, as well as boats in the harbor across from it. That's 360 degrees of intense fire surrounding a massive block sized tree that didn't burn, with park benches and ground detritus around it that also didn't burn.

NetweaselContinuing the struggle 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 8 months ago

Now look at the massive Banyan tree in the video....That's 360 degrees of intense fire...

Wait... what happened to the house? Was there not a 360 degree shot of lack of fire damage around it?

FThumbStay thirsty, my friends[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 8 months ago

I thought there was an image that showed the structures on all three sides of the Banyan tree reduced to ash, as well as the boats in the harbor in front of it. That's all four sides around it, and it wasn't burnt.

NetweaselContinuing the struggle 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun 8 months ago

Try it this way: Suppose you have magic powers to control what the wind does, let's call it AirBending.
But only during intense fires.

Could you, through control of the air in a fire, make these effects happen?

Could you swirl a swath of cooler air around a favorite Banyan tree to save it while all around it burns? Yes.
Could you make it so that one quadrant of a car just melts but the opposite corner is still like new? Yes.
Could you make this stack of tires erupt in flame while another stack three feet away doesn't? Yes.

All that you could theoretically do through magic control of the winds, Wind and Fire is capable of doing, at least once.

Could you make a single nail in a tree burn part of a tree at point of contact, without harming the rest of the tree? Don't think so.
[Edit: you could, if you had some other metal attached to the nail that you could heat up instead of heating the nail directly.]
Could you, shown a pile of identical-looking tires, make only the ones containing steel belts burn? Don't think so either.

If that kind of thing happened, I would suggest focusing on those things that Wind And Fire in combination cannot do.
If you could do it through AirBending, it's possible that Wind and Fire in combination really did it.

FThumbStay thirsty, my friends[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 8 months ago

Could you, shown a pile of identical-looking tires, make only the ones containing steel belts burn? Don't think so either.

Microwaves could do this.

NetweaselContinuing the struggle 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun 8 months ago

And if you have evidence of things that microwaves can do, but fire and wind cannot, go with that.

Adding in things that wind and fire can do just muddies your evidence. Like the nails. I had hopes for the nails.
Fire and wind would have a tough time getting a single unconnected nail hot enough to char wood without the fire and wind charring the wood at the same time.

But when you add in metal fencing connecting the nails, you've just built a wood burning kit for the fire to play with.
Remember wood burning kits? Basically a soldering iron to burn your initials into a plank with? You get metal hot enough and you can char wood with it.