Reply #287: ack!

[noamnety]

He's going on now about nonlinear crystals, I'm having flashbacks to proofreading his impossibly jargony thesis.

To get a laser to go into a cockpit you'd have to be far enough away that the angle is not so straight up. Like a mile or so away at least, probably more (that's off the top of his head, not real math). And at that distance, you couldn't do any damage with a toy one, which wouldn't be strong enough at even like 100 feet or so to do any eye damage.

And he added that it's weird they used a green one, the cheaper green ones he thinks are really red ones with a crystal added that increases the frequency, which makes them green, but that causes a loss of efficiency. (now he's rambling a bit about whether the frequency is doubled, or one and a half). Your eye sees green better, so it wouldn't be something you'd want to use if you were trying to be stealthy and powerful.

He's also muttering about YAG lasers, which are the kind used I guess in laser range finders. And getting increasingly technical. :scared:


(and of course your question leads me right back to my previous suspicions that you really are KO covertly building your fan base here, and now you're doing some fact checking for your followup story)