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 | | From: | vic20owner | | Subject: | Re: Man Charged With Aiming Laser at Aircraft | | Date: | Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:37:59 GMT |
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> Unless you can create a force field that will bend the light away from
> you you're pretty much out of luck.
> How about strapping a retroreflector to your plane so that you bound
> the beam back and blind the guy on the ground. Now THAT would be cool.
Uh... how about a filter coating on the glass. duh. Fighter jets have a
filter coating on the cockpit glass to prevent exactly whats happening now.
This whole thing is just rediculous. The media has blown it way out
proportion as usual.
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| | From: | Skywise | | Subject: | Re: Man Charged With Aiming Laser at Aircraft | | Date: | Tue, 18 Jan 2005 00:55:55 -0000 |
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| vic20owner wrote in news:XJSGd.201511$8G4.146474
@tornado.tampabay.rr.com:
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>> Unless you can create a force field that will bend the light away from
>> you you're pretty much out of luck.
>> How about strapping a retroreflector to your plane so that you bound
>> the beam back and blind the guy on the ground. Now THAT would be cool.
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> Uh... how about a filter coating on the glass. duh. Fighter jets have a
> filter coating on the cockpit glass to prevent exactly whats happening now.
Uhmm...if this coating you are refering to is golden in color,
then it's purpose is not anti-laser. It is anti-radar. It is
a thin layer of gold to make the glass reflective to radar. That
is much more desirable than having the radar energy enter the
cockpit, bounce around, and get reflected back to the radar. At
least by coating the glass so it's reflective you have control
over where it reflects to.
> This whole thing is just rediculous. The media has blown it way out
> proportion as usual.
Probably.
Brian
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