I did, and thank you for remembering that, Ian!
I wrote Sterling: For the Republic using the same basic premise. I actually like the characters in it because they are the best I have created. They are very human, non-Rambo types, who make their share of mistakes. The idea began when I was working on my MBA and realized that everything I was learning was how a complex system of smoke and mirrors worked. As long as no one asks why the Emperor has no clothes (or, does anyone realize that all this is credit and not money?) it will work until it doesn't. It's all a get-rich game built by the banking system and the only sane thing to do is withdraw from their game: get out of their system.
Downsized, debt-free, rural, and self-sufficient is the perfect way to go! Being just the two of us, having a few neighbors with their own catapults is some solace. Our catapults are the high velocity lead tossing types, and we all have bags of porridge oats. It is far easier to have a couple of people awake and on outdoor surveillance duty 24/7 than it is for two people to manage. Much to be said for isolation, but also much to be said for mutual support. Remember that, at best, it takes three people to keep one on surveillance duty: one sleeping for the next shift and one providing infrastructure support. A couple alone will not win that struggle.
Thanks for the advice Will. It does seem that things are taking a downward spiral. I've been researching the 'wildfires' happening across the globe and there seems to be lots of evidence pointing to the use of DEW in conjunction with weather modification. Are you familiar with this?
Not with DEW.what's a worthwhile source?
The below video is an interview with experienced fire captain John Lord. Some of the anomalies are discussed here. Some of the images are shocking, they include things like entire properties destroyed while healthy trees stand around all sides.
That is some interesting stuff, especially the related videos about wood being touched by metal burning away when other wood is seemingly unharmed. I have worked with high energy microwave radar and have seen that effect ( a metal object on a table leaving a char of its footprint on the table when in the output path of a magnetron ). It takes only a millisecond to get really hot! One thing though: you cannot bend a high frequency beam with any accuracy at all, so any directed beam would have to come from above, and you cannot ionize a column of air unless the emitter is on one end of the column. That limits where you have to be when you start doing tricks.
I'll keep an eye on the DEW stuff. Thanks for pointing that out.
Reagan talked a lot about star wars then it all went away until now with Trumps talk of the space force. I'm sure the project never went away even if talk of it did. What with HAARP weather manipulaton...reflective mirrors in space doesn't seem far fetched to me. Dr Judy Woods book 'Where did the towers go' is an evidence based study of what happened to the 2 towers on 9/11. I'm no expert but she is and her conclusion is that only cold DEW can explain what physically happened to those towers. It is a fascinating read and it looks like your experience would allow you to understand more of the scientific data than I could. She has presentations about the book on you tube as well. She even tried to sue the US govt over their provable lies around the event. It came down to the supreme court who used their right to simply refuse to allow the case through their doors. One interesting statistic from the book for example highlights how the 'collapse' of building 7 measured 0.6 on the Richter scale which is the same as the use of a jack hammer on the ground. I've attached a short clip of Dr Woods seismic data analysis below.
I have never believed any of the buildings fell because of impact, or that the steel girders melted. Liquid pools of steel and iron don't happen from a falling girder, and floors do not collapse in free-fall, and Building 7 was barely charred when it was pulled.
If they lie enough, it becomes fact. I'll look at DEW as a possibility but my current guess is that the nanothermate melting of the structural elements was the cause.
I would believe it was an attack of evil fairies before I will that it was the temperature of burning av fuel in open air melted those sealed beams.
One of my trigger points....
I'll check it out.