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by thebean11 1795 days ago
If you have the ability to freely fly a bunch of drones in enemy territory there’s a lot of stuff you can do.
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<sarcasm>No need to invade! You could just build a large antenna array to control the weather: https://presscore.ca/news/haarp-mandated-to-create-floods-to...

There are some crazy stories related to the HAARP program including opening holes in the ozone layer which caused instaneous skin burning to anyone caught under the hole. Even back in the early days of the internet, it was obvious how the conspiracy circles were going to flourish and push the drek to world. I had never heard of presscore.ca, but based on this article alone, I now know to hopefully never see it again except for examples like in this case.

Crazy thing about the "tinfoil hatters" is that they'll fight to the death to defend their pet conspiracy, but it's impossible for them to believe the much more plausible conspiracy theory that certain huge corporate interests conspired to sell out the entirety of humanity for ridiculous gobs and truckloads of short-term profits.
If you are really bored, you can cause lightning:

"A lightning rocket is a rocket that unravels a conductor, such as a fine copper wire, as it ascends, to conduct lightning charges to the ground. Lightning strikes derived from this process are called "triggered lightning."[1][2][3]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_rocket

Of course, you can just drop some HE instead. Not sure how much damage lightning actually does.