To: ableChair
Not true.
Milliwatt levels can damage the retina.
It depends on atmospheric conditions as to how much beam spreading and attenuation there is.
50 watts of power over a two millimeter diameter area is very powerful. That would badly burn your skin and likely cut through it if it were passed over it slowly.
147 posted on
09/28/2004 9:13:13 PM PDT by
DB
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To: DB
It depends on atmospheric conditions as to how much beam spreading and attenuation there is
Exactly. I don't see a 50 watt (or less) laser fired through 5 miles of atmosphere not dissipating at least an equal amount of energy in heat. Doesn't pass the sniff test.
To: DB
You Guys are soooo anteletical--but I'm tellin' you I can just visualize "Dude, there goes a plane--let's just try it on them and see what happens" (snicker, snicker)
154 posted on
09/28/2004 9:16:51 PM PDT by
luvie
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