The new girl on the blog
Greetings everyone, it seems that I’m the new girl around here, so I suppose I should introduce myself with a nice little posting here of something I found while reading through CNN.com of all places. Yes, it seems that Terrorists have a new weapon. The military’s been experimenting with this kind of thing for years, so is it really a surprise that the possibility would arise from terrorists as well? When I hear more about it, those reading here will be the first to know… but incidentally, while it seems the FBI is worried about it, the AirForce isn’t. Air traffic control operators and pilots working for the military have been briefed that attacks of this kind are “unlikely due to the cost involved in lasers with enough power and focusing capability to cause more than temporary blindness that would pass before a crash would be probable” in an unclassified memorandum almost two weeks ago.
Anyway, its something new to think about.
December 30th, 2004 at 2:35 am
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December 10th, 2004 at 9:53 am
Oh yeah, forgot to mention it
There’s a new blogger here. Fox meet blog. Blog meet Fox. However, I didn’t know he was a girl.
December 10th, 2004 at 10:29 am
actually there is one case of an pilot reciveing damage from an laser that i have read.
I think that the terrorist would have to get lucky to bring down a plane, they would have to hit all the eyes driving the plane, but they can definatly scare some people.
December 10th, 2004 at 2:26 pm
Why is it people always assume I’m a guy?
Yes, even the article itself gives reference to one possibility regarding the use of lasers on a pilot, but the use of such is still experimental even for us… so it was probably an accident, rather than intentional.
December 10th, 2004 at 5:46 pm
Better the terrorists be spending their time and money on this than on something that actually has a good chance of working…
December 11th, 2004 at 5:21 am
Hell, the Soviets shot a laser beam at space shuttle Challenger in 1984, causing some system failures and temporary eye damage to a crew member.
http://www.astronautix.com/details/stsg3087.htm