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presumably lightning.

alexose 3y ago
Yep, almost certainly this. The same thing has been happening every year out west. It sometimes takes a day or more for lightning-caused fires to grow to a size that they can be detected via satellite.
tricksforfree 3y ago
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- baggy_trough 3y ago
  Satellites will pick it up if it's lightning. It's very common (see giant fires on the West Coast in the past few years).
- anoonmoose 3y ago
  I don't see how one could reasonably say a thing that has happened before and a thing that hasn't happened before are equally plausible explanations for a thing that is currently happening.
  - fknorangesite 3y ago
    I don't know about in the US, but in Canada in recent weeks there have been conspiracy theories floating around that the wildfires in Alberta were started by The Libs™ in order to make the provincial Conservative government look bad in the lead-up to an election. So, uh, keep in mind that some commenters might be Just Asking Questions.
    - anoonmoose 3y ago
      I don't wanna be too cynical but I did look at the accounts of the two people in this thread who seem to find the idea plausible and found...pretty much exactly what I expected to find. So, yeah, I agree with you, lotta JAQing off.
- ceejayoz 3y ago
  Historical lightning map: https://www.blitzortung.org/en/historical_maps.php?map=30 https://www.blitzortung.org/en/historical_maps.php?map=30 Go back to June 1 for a good example of lots of lightning in the right area. https://imgur.com/a/LcM8sMe https://imgur.com/a/LcM8sMe June 6 also has some in the same rough area of Quebec
- KoftaBob 3y ago
  Coordinated arson of that massive a scale would be incredibly difficult, and what would be the motivation to do that?
  - Eumenes 3y ago
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    - EatingWithForks 3y ago
      The kids throwing soup at paintings already committed crimes attacking oil infrastructure and shutting down certain oil infrastructures (pipelines etc) that got them precisely no attention. You only know them from the soup can shit, which proves their whole point.
  - pvaldes 3y ago
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- oliveshell 3y ago
  > ”…without proof, it's just as plausible as…” You may be interested to know that people whose job requires them to be epistemologically rigorous do not think in this way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_epistemology#Fundamentals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_epistemology#Fundamen...

Yep, almost certainly this. The same thing has been happening every year out west. It sometimes takes a day or more for lightning-caused fires to grow to a size that they can be detected via satellite.

tricksforfree 3y ago

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baggy_trough 3y ago
Satellites will pick it up if it's lightning. It's very common (see giant fires on the West Coast in the past few years).
anoonmoose 3y ago
I don't see how one could reasonably say a thing that has happened before and a thing that hasn't happened before are equally plausible explanations for a thing that is currently happening.
- fknorangesite 3y ago
  I don't know about in the US, but in Canada in recent weeks there have been conspiracy theories floating around that the wildfires in Alberta were started by The Libs™ in order to make the provincial Conservative government look bad in the lead-up to an election. So, uh, keep in mind that some commenters might be Just Asking Questions.
  - anoonmoose 3y ago
    I don't wanna be too cynical but I did look at the accounts of the two people in this thread who seem to find the idea plausible and found...pretty much exactly what I expected to find. So, yeah, I agree with you, lotta JAQing off.
ceejayoz 3y ago
Historical lightning map: https://www.blitzortung.org/en/historical_maps.php?map=30 https://www.blitzortung.org/en/historical_maps.php?map=30 Go back to June 1 for a good example of lots of lightning in the right area. https://imgur.com/a/LcM8sMe https://imgur.com/a/LcM8sMe June 6 also has some in the same rough area of Quebec
KoftaBob 3y ago
Coordinated arson of that massive a scale would be incredibly difficult, and what would be the motivation to do that?
- Eumenes 3y ago
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  - EatingWithForks 3y ago
    The kids throwing soup at paintings already committed crimes attacking oil infrastructure and shutting down certain oil infrastructures (pipelines etc) that got them precisely no attention. You only know them from the soup can shit, which proves their whole point.
- pvaldes 3y ago
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oliveshell 3y ago
> ”…without proof, it's just as plausible as…” You may be interested to know that people whose job requires them to be epistemologically rigorous do not think in this way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_epistemology#Fundamentals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_epistemology#Fundamen...