Re: Flash Blinded By Green Laser

From: Yukovnia (moldavia_at_sucom.sea.com)
Date: 01/02/05 

Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 23:19:30 -0600

Brian Tung wrote:

> Tim Killian wrote:
> > Your "experiment" proves that uninformed people are dangerous to
> > themselves and others. You should not own even that 5 mW laser!
> >
> > The retina of the eye cannot feel pain. Just because you decided to try
> > and destroy a portion of it doesn't mean that green lasers are eyesafe.
> > I hope you tried this stunt in private where no one else could witness
> > your stupidity.
>
> Let's put aside for the moment whether Stuart should have performed the
> experiment, or whether he is really uninformed--which, after all, you
> don't really know.
>
> If the claim is that a pilot was flash blinded at thousands of meters,
> then Stuart's inability to flash blind himself at less than a meter is
> entirely relevant and establishes the case that it can't have happened--
> at least not in the way described. I hope that Stuart hasn't damaged
> his retina indetectably, but even if he has, that wasn't the nature of
> the claim.
>
> You seem determined to demonstrate a danger that you intuitively feel
> is inherent in these devices, in defiance of both the measured divergence
> of the beams and experience with the laser pointers (wise or not). I
> say this only because you have ignored the lesson of the experiment in
> favor of criticizing whether it should ever have been carried out.
>
> Brian Tung <brian@isi.edu>
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Then present your "case" to the FCC and see how far you get,
Pudknocker!

John

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