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    Re: this has to be a joke

    Oh well they get a nice laser show
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    Let me put it this way, it would just be yet another Tom Clancy scenario put into the real world. In "Debt of Honor", John Clark and his partner (can't remember the name ATM) use a "light cannon", which is simply an extremely strong lamp, so strong that it overloads the nerve system, to down three radar observation planes during the landing approach.
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    Re: this has to be a joke

    Quote Originally Posted by CornedBee
    Let me put it this way, it would just be yet another Tom Clancy scenario put into the real world. In "Debt of Honor", John Clark and his partner (can't remember the name ATM) use a "light cannon", which is simply an extremely strong lamp, so strong that it overloads the nerve system, to down three radar observation planes during the landing approach.
    CornedBee I don't know how many Tom Clancy books you have read but they are really a "How to perform terroist acts." I dont know which book, it might be "Without Remorse", they fly a plain into the white house? or maybe im just reading to much into it. Btw have you read any of his Netforce books?

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    Quote Originally Posted by john tindell
    CornedBee I don't know how many Tom Clancy books you have read but they are really a "How to perform terroist acts." I dont know which book, it might be "Without Remorse", they fly a plain into the white house? or maybe im just reading to much into it. Btw have you read any of his Netforce books?
    I've read all of the books in the main series (Jack Ryan et al.), as well as Red Storm Rising, two Op-Center books, Fighter Wing and Every Man a Tiger.

    And yes, they are very much "how to perform terrorist acts." "Without Remorse" gives instructions to be a Sniper Murderer, for example. The book you mean is "Debt of Honor", too, where at the very end a Japanese civil pilot, who lost his son and brother in a war with America, flies his 747 into the White House just before a new vice president (Jack Ryan) is supposed to be sworn to his job. The pilot manages to kill the president, a lot of the senate, nearly all supreme judges, and most of the cabinet.
    The next book, "Executive Orders", details an elaborate biological attack using Ebola virii. "Rainbox Six", after that, does the same, but from a different perspective.
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    I have all of Tom Clancys books 'cause my mum and brother like him, and im just starting to get into them, after years of hearing all about them from my family. The NetForce books are good but not as "Spider Webbed" as his others. But sayng that i have only read "Hunt For Red October" and "Red Storm Rising"

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    Red Storm Rising is his best, IMHO. I simply love it.
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    Hunt for red october is a good film
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    The book is even better.
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    Re: this has to be a joke

    Didn't you see the /news/ in the URL?

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    Well, not much of a danger there, really.
    A properly helmeted and visored Military Pilot could easily be accesorized with a laser resistent visor.

    But the really high tech pilots aren't even affected at all, since they fly by VR, and don't even visually see the real world.

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    Re: this has to be a joke

    such a small beam of light going a few miles away to the pilots eye? chances are so wild it doesn't deserve a second thought

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    So make a wide beam, then. It only needs to cause temporary blindness, so it doesn't even need that much power.
    I just don't see why it needs to be a laser. Normal lamps are far easier to form into a wide beam. They have the same blinding effect if strong enough.
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    I have a better change of winning the power ball lottery, then a terrorist has of bring down a plane with a laser light!

    Do they make them the size of telephone poles?
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    Re: this has to be a joke

    i didn't think that they even let them on a plane! Maybe it would reflect off of the metal, but couldn't reliably be aimed that way. Do they have keyholes in the cockpit door? I doubt it!

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    dglienna, the idea is that a terrorist lurks near an airport and points his laser at incoming planes from the outside.
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    Re: this has to be a joke

    then the odds of actually blinding a pilot is near impossible, unless that they have high-powered laser beams. maybe fixed on a pole, or something? I don't see how you could get a pilot. easier to use a rifle. that's why there is a fence around the airport!

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    Re: this has to be a joke

    even hitting the pilot in the head is practically impossible. From 5 miles away, while traveling very very fast they plan on hitting him in the eye with an oversized laser pointer? What kind of electronic aiming mount do they have this thing on?

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    On the other hand, a short flash might suffice, so a scanning laser can cover quite a large area.
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    Re: this has to be a joke

    the laser will also angle when it hits the windshield...so at most angles it may be physically impossible to hit a pilot anyway, still sounds silly to me

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    But if people aren't scared, who's going to support Bush?
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    hehehe there you go

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    Last edited by mudfish; Dec 31st, 2004 at 09:39 AM.
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    Re: this has to be a joke

    So the plan is: Let's tell people that we are worried about something that is totally crazy, so that all the kooks will think "Gee, I think I'll try THAT.". This will keep them from doing anything that is actually dangerous.
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