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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-02-05 03:06 PM
Response to Reply #49
56. Bathing something in light
is not the same as hitting someones eyeball with a laser beam and blinding them while they are flying inside of a cockpit of an airplane. Seeing the beam and having it directed into your retina are two different things.

Yes I can get a high powered search light, like the one I have for my boat but I'm not going to blind anybody flying overhead with that, not unless I'm in very close range, like standing next to the friggin window. No I don't want to look directly at the light because even looking directly at the lightbulb on my desk lamp will temporarily blind me. But I doubt that it would cause me to crash a my jet. Kind of like driving into the west when the sun is going down. Sometimes you can't see shit but you still manage to drive your car.

In the meantime, you still haven't shown me any a device that could blind someone from a mile away or even half a mile, while they are flying inside the cockpit of a jet, that is something your average nutcase is going to be walking around with.



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