----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronn!Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 9:17 PM Subject: Re: Semi-OTC Lasers
> 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. > Retinal damage is a very real problem even with low powered lasers and is likely the more frequent type of laser misuse. The danger I am thinking about concerns such lasers ability to cut through plastics and such. What if one were to use a laser to cut through a barrier that separated two chemicals that normally should be kept a good distance from each other? I suspect that the list of such chemicals is much larger than the list of chemicals normally searched for, frex when boarding planes. How about water and phosphorus? I imagine there are also some normally innocuous chemicals (precursors) that when combined create a poisonous gas or possibly a nerve agent. Significantly increasing the numbers and types of chemicals that law and security agencies *need* to search for is quite a problem. I expect that I am imagining only the simplest variations of such a device. but it seems to me that such a device would be fairly simple to build and conceal/disguise. xponent Pandora's Box Of Tricks Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
