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[Pondman88]

How does one shine a laser light into an airplane traveling 300-500 mph while its in the air??????

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Laser pointers will soon be outlawed.

$10,000 fine and ten years in prison for possession.

[konaice]

So what kind of lazer makes a green beam? That would seem less than ordinary.

OTOH, cheap laser pointers can be had at any office supply store (most are red) and this could become more common.

[Sgt_Schultze]

I really don't know how a person could shine a laser pointer at an object several miles away moving at 300+ mph. I have a small laser pointer and when I shine it only a couple hundred yards onto a tree in my backyard, it is darn near impossible to keep the target steady.

[GodBlessRonaldReagan]

Terrorists testing a targeting system?

[mewzilla]

There have been several incidents throughout the United States in the past year of laser lights directed at commercial flights. The lights can distract or temporarily blind a pilot.

Aren't lasers also used for targeting?

[rarestia]

Many astronomers (amateur to pro) have green pointer lasers that they use to "point" to stars in the sky. They're amazing little devices and help out greatly in identification and telescope pointing.

[Brig_Gen_George_P_Harrison_CSA]

I'd like to find a laser pointer that has an effective range of well over a mile, like that one in Cleveland. I bet it goes right through clouds, too! It could revolutionize my board room presentations.

[Prince Charles]

It is against federal regulations to intentionally shine a laser beam at a commercial flight.

It's also agin the law for Koranimals to fly planes into buildings, but somehow, that didn't stop 'em.

[dfwgator]

Were the lasers attached to the heads of freakin' sharks?

[mhking]

Phasers on stun, Mr. Worf....

[Kadanne]

Could be a practice run or runs for some type of terrorist plot or just a scare tactic. You would have to know what you are doing to be so pin point on that fast of moving object or they have it hooked up to a laptop and are using something similar to GS tracking but still that couldn't be that simple. Don't know whether to laugh or run and hide.

[hoosierboy]

A laser?

[GSlob]

I believe there are specialty materials with very strong optical absorption in the narrow spectral bands, used for eye protection goggles in work with lasers. They are specialized for the laser type, IIRC, so one protecting against a green laser light might be ineffective against a red laser beam, but there might exist advanced multi-band materials. Such laser protection goggles are something like $300 apiece, and it would seem that spending 10-20mil and equipping all commercial pilots with them would be money well spent.

[NeoCaveman]

More strange stuff in Cleveland, ping.

[Jonx6]

"Federal Aviation Administration regulations mandate that laser light shows must register their locations and the lights cannot be directed above 3,000 feet.

How do you get this to work? I guess you have to point it at something and not let it point at the sky unless it's a light saber.

[Atlas Sneezed]

Some kid playing with his $80 Christmas present, and some overly nervous pilots, no doubt.

http://www.greenlaserbeam.com/

[zerosix]

A laser certainly was used on a Naval Pilot by a Russian "fishing" trawler.

[shield]

Strange...........

[KoRn]