At 09:12 AM Thursday 2/23/2006, Klaus Stock wrote:
> For the last few months you have been able to buy lasers that could
> pop balloons, melt trash bags, cut electrical tape, and melt through
> plastic.
And more easily blind people than the class 1 lasers.
Want to kill someone? Wait till he drives past on th efreeway, point the
laser at his eyes and there he goes. The perfect crime, killing people with
an intuitive "point and click" interface.
I have a class 1 green laser rated at 4.99mW that I use for a star
pointer which would likely be sufficient for that purpose. (Drives
the cat crazy, too.) The downside of doing what you describe at
night is that the beam of even a class 1 green laser is visible at
night (the very reason it is useful for pointing out objects in the
sky), so any witnesses would be able to describe where the beam came
from. The laser Rob described is actually bright enough that the
beam can be see in the daytime (I'm not sure about in bright
sunlight). I'd like to get one for demonstrations in class but don't
have a spare $2K atm.
-- Ronn! :)
Ronn Blankenship
Sometime Adjunct Instructor of Astronomy/Planetary Science
University of Montevallo
Montevallo, AL
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