Pro tip: Use Amazon solely as a products directory. Once you find something you like to buy, copy the item name and search for other stores selling that item. If no other options exist it’s either cheap amazon trash (in which case look for a different product) or amazon’s being a monopoly (fun!) (not sure how well this works since I can’t shop online rn since i don’t have a bank account yet)
If I wrote about conservatives thinking wildfires are caused by a space laser weapon to attack the US I would be asked to not make such ridiculous caricatures but https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66457091
Fun fact: Reagon spent over $250B on a space laser program during the cold war. It failed and nothing useful was gained from it.
Space lasers work and are a great way to destroy other sattelites. His SDI program was way crazier though, X-ray lasers fueled by shaped charge nukes to shoot down ICBMs.
Still more reasonable than Project Pluto. I can’t believe how far we got in that particular mistake.
ETA the x-ray lasers were only a part of it. They were throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what stuck.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative
Is the CIA still messing around with psychics?
Probably… Does anyone know what the CIA is currently doing?
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