I think they should have onboard lasers and fire back! Just blind
the shooters! Jim WA6EKS
----- Original Message -----
From: Tom Fowle <[log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Date sent: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 20:11:03 -0800
Subject: Re: Speaking of Laser Beams
One wonders what the poor pilots are to do about such reports?
"Don't look
down?" <OOPS? <CRUNCH>!
At least there should be no doubt as to the appropriate
punishment! taste of
their own medecine what?
Old programmers dictum:
"Never check for an error you can't do anything about!"
tom Fowle WA6IVG
On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 03:00:55PM +1100, Iaen Cordell wrote:
I have an dedicated Icom aircraft radio and offten hear reports
of laser
beams pointing at aircraft, like you said it does not take long
for them to
be found.
also the ATIS beacons give reports of laser usage to pilots on
approach.
cheers
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Gammon" <[log in to unmask]
To: <[log in to unmask]
Sent: Monday, November 23, 2015 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: Speaking of Laser Beams
Phil, have you heard about the people that have been pointing
green lasers at airliners and cop choppers? Seems like they get
caught almost all the time. I mean a laser as you know is a
pinpoint of light, all you need is a GPS position and you
probably will catch the perp if he or she is not mobile. Jim
WA6EKS
----- Original Message -----
From: Phil Scovell <[log in to unmask]
To: [log in to unmask]
Date sent: Sun, 22 Nov 2015 18:36:14 -0700
Subject: Speaking of Laser Beams
I was rooting around in the online NLS library the other day for
something
new to read. I have about a dozen books on my phone I am
interested in
reading and about two dozen in my wish list waiting to be
downloaded to my
iPhone when I am ready. I stumbled on a book called What is a
Laser. It
was, and is, just 37 minutes long and was recorded back in 1983
but if you
want a grade school level of how lasers work, it is a great
read.
Besides,
grade school is about my level at my advanced age. Even then, I
didn't
understand everything. And to think they could measure the
space
between
atoms back then and a laser, even back then, could drill a
perfect hole in a
human hair. If you still have hair, that is. In my case,
they'd
have to
use my Abraham Lincoln beard. Right up front, this little book
said, if you
turned on all the light bulbs in the world at the same time, it
still
wouldn't equal the output of the earliest of lasers. Don't burn
yourself.
Now if the laser could just grow hair.
Phil.
K0NX
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