| From: | "Sascha Pabst" <Sascha.Pabst@**********.Uni-Oldenburg.DE> |
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| Subject: | Re: Laser Sights (was: Speed Kills) |
| Date: | Sat, 15 Jun 1996 17:16:15 +0200 |
> Question. AFAIK its not good to look into a laser beam. Now is the laser on
> a laser sight a low enoguh power not to do damage to a target's eye or would
> the target get blinded for a second, or permenantly? Any of you Mil-Specs know?
I am definitely not a military man, but I do work in front of Lasers at least
twice a week and have discussed the problems that might arise from looking into
one of the beams with our DJs (with those that have been schooled on the
things at least). What I understood from their techno-babble was that the laser
we use (about double the size of large shoeboxes) might reach far (am not sure
anymore how far), but wouldn't do harm until one would look into the beam for
some seconds. And since the laser sights are much smaler (no! I wouldn't tie
a shoebox to my gun! :-) IMHO it would even in 205x be the same: You'd have
to look into the beam for a few seconds - and that's nearly impossible (eye
movement, general movement, distractions, slightly shaking hand holding gun...)
Sascha
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