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> Sounds like an effective way to blind pilots. Don't pilots have protective windows?

• jacquesm 6y ago
  No, they don't, and in helicopters they even have windows in the floor.
• numpad0 6y ago
  Protected against weather and sunlights but not against dumb kids with eBay lasers yet
  • qwerty456127 6y ago
    Then why don't terrorists and angry people use this?
    • numpad0 6y ago
      Because there had never been actual deaths to it?
      • PeterisP 6y ago
        It has caused career-ending eye damage though - e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/23/ba-pilots-eye-damaged-by-military-laser-shone-into-cockpit-at-heathrow https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/23/ba-pilots-eye-...
    • bigiain 6y ago
      Angry/stupid people do. What they don't seem to work out is that they're drawing a super clear line in the sky directly back to themselves, and police in choppers have colleagues on the ground who are very happy to show up and arrest the guy with the laser... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCCLbcC25Rs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCCLbcC25Rs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaOhD2r-Y8c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaOhD2r-Y8c