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- From: wouter@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Wouter Slegers)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Laser gunsights (was: Info on CO2lasers wanted
- Message-ID: <6899@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 12:44:28 GMT
- References: <1993Jan6.191934.1085@cmkrnl.com>
- Sender: root@tuegate.tue.nl
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- jeh@cmkrnl.com wrote:
- : In article <6802@tuegate.tue.nl>, wouter@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl (Wouter Slegers) writes:
- : > I'd like to get some info CO2-lasers... I read the following on a BBS..
- : > If anyone has a sequel on this, please email it to me..
- : > [...]
- : > LASER WEAPONRY / PART 1 / LASER SIGHTS
- : > [...]
- :
- : I don't know about the circuitry provided... but the stuff in there about a
- : 2 mW HeNe laser being dangerous to human eyes is complete bunk.
- :
- This is not quit true: a 2 mW laser is enough concentrated to damage the eye
- tissue if your looking right into it..
-
- : I would also point out that the claim of "perfect targetting" for a laser
- : gunsight just isn't so -- elevation and windage still are factors -- and that
- Correct, but it does give some extra targetting info..
-
- : *seeing* the dot of light from a 2 mW laser at any reasonable distance, in
- : anything other than pitch blackness, is damned near impossible.
- :
- : --- Jamie Hanrahan, Kernel Mode Consulting, San Diego CA
- : Internet: jeh@cmkrnl.com, hanrahan@eisner.decus.org, or jeh@crash.cts.com
- : Uucp: ...{crash,eisner,uunet}!cmkrnl!jeh
-
- The file I appended to my message is not very good, I know (I downloaded it
- from a weird BBS). I appended it in the hope someone would have the sequel
- and would post/mail it.
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