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Originally Posted by omnivorr
but I do not accept you as final and ultimate authority on the 'physics' of it no matter how many times you repeat it.
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Lord no, I wouldn't trust me either. A recently dusted off copy of my old Resnick and Halliday text did however come in useful
BTW another physics grad ISS contributor (Susan ?) came up with the same back of the envelope calculations as myself...a warm human eye might get a maximum flux of about 1/200th of a milliwatt @1000 metres from a 100mw pointer.
What spawned this thread of mine...and thoughts of a dash offshore...were the powers the police have in regard to the ownership of these terrifying WMD's (I know this to be true as Morris told me): "laser" pointers.
A "crime scene" can be set up for any crime that has a punishment of 5 years or more in goal, so the team from Polair one can, quite legally: kick in your front door, break any vessel or lock they choose in your house, detain you and your family, smash in a few walls...not find a darn thing...and provided they had reasonable suspicions you had said device.....simply say, in their best John Cleese voice, "sorry" and...well...bugger off from the wedding party.
Democracy at work?
I think we can do better than that.