I still don’t know how the police found my compound where I ran an illegal searchlight depot/covert blimp airfield/fireworks testing range.

https://explainxkcd.com/3030/

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    When will they equip planes with auto targetting lasers to instantly blind dumbasses who do this?

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      when the legal system stops prosecuting extremely negligent companies for hurting innocent bystanders in pursuit of prof… shit.

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        Allegedly negligent companies. The whistleblowers keep suiciding themselves for some inexplicable reason…

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    …And that the thing they’re shining a laser at famously knows exactly where it is located, and has two guys sitting in the front seats who are extensively skilled and identifying the range and bearing of things around them.

    • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyz
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      It’s not like that. At that distance, the beam is wide enough to cover a large part of the cockpit, not to mention the glare. It’s literally blinding light.

      Have you ever had a truck flash its lights at you at night? It’s like that, but much, much stronger, and you’re in the most sensitive part of the flight, when if you fuck up, you crash.

      What pilots are trained to do is switch off all the lights, so the idiot can’t see you and can no longer easily hit you with the laser. You can imagine that’s not safe either.