--On Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:47 PM -0800 Dave Biasotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It may cause some deterioration of the laser pick up, but as I > mentioned with laser traveling at the speed of light, about the only
As opposed to the much slower than the speed of light radar? :-) You can make radar into a laser (maser) but it isn't as useful for detection, and its harder in a hand-held unit. Scatter and a conical beam is why you can detect radar before you are caught, but that implies the device is used prior to being used on you (or it is a low quality one that takes a while to lock-on so you can confuse it by changing your speed rapidly, but this looks very suspicious too. :-). > The other thing too is radar waves will travel thru / around your body > so the rear pick up is unaffected. Indeed. Radar is microwaves. Hence Amana's Radar-Range line of microwave ovens. So, what he said. Radar will penetrate your windshield unless you are using a shielding plastic with metalic properties (they have those, I understand). Take care, Mike (parenthetical man) -- Michael Weaver (706)542-6462 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Engineering Services EITS University of Georgia, Athens Ga. )O( Public PGP key: http://www.arches.uga.edu/~weaver/pgp.html
