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[QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [QB] My point was that it just isn't possible to shine a hand-held laser into the eyes of the pilots of a moving plane from the ground. For one thing, over that distance, the slightest movement would cause the other end of the laser beam to move about wildly. Plus, even if you could manage to accurately aim at the windows of the cockpit, the chances that the beam would just happen to interset the eyes of the pilots are negligible. Plus, the airplane would be moving at hundreds of miles per hour. Even if he could have gotten the beam into their eyes, and held the laser steady enough, they would be past it in a fraction of a second. He'd have to actually track the plane with the laser to keep it on their eyes long enough to affect them. The whole situation is ludicrous. And, didn't we already have this discussion here a while back? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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