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No mention of safety? There's a UN protocol on the use of blinding weapons, signed by the United States and over a hundred other countries, but the terms are p
by elihu 5y ago
No mention of safety?
There's a UN protocol on the use of blinding weapons, signed by the United States and over a hundred other countries, but the terms are pretty loose: you're not allowed to make weapons that deliberately blind people permanently, and you're supposed to employ any safety measures at your disposal to prevent unintentionally blinding people, but if you make a weapon that blinds people by accident and there's no way to make it not blind people by designing it differently, that's apparently okay.
It'd be interesting to at least have some mention of whether it's safe to be around these things without protective eyewear when they're operating.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Weapons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Wea...