Timeline for What does it take to make a permanent blindness gun?
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| Jan 29, 2016 at 10:25 | comment | added | user16869 | By the way, mischievous or nefarious use of lasers directed at airplanes from the ground is a serious hazard for aviation. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasers_and_aviation_safety. Again, the point is that the weapon described in the question to some extent already exists and is easily obtainable even by bored suburban teenagers living near an airport. The only reason it doesn't cause serious damage is that versions of it optimized for weapons use have been banned and are not manufactured by anyone. | |
| Jan 29, 2016 at 10:22 | comment | added | user16869 | The "near-future" tag on this question is misleading. Such a weapon is called a "laser", is commonplace and cheap and so easy to weaponize that an international treaty was developed to ban such weaponization. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Weapons | |
| Jan 28, 2016 at 20:59 | comment | added | AndyD273 | On a side note, apparently the US didn't agree to the 1995 United Nations Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons until 2009... | |
| Jan 28, 2016 at 20:22 | answer | added | user3652621 | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 28, 2016 at 20:04 | comment | added | AndyD273 | @AndreiROM You could make safety glasses a little less effective by issuing lasers in different wavelengths. Safety glasses are generally designed to block out a certain types of lasers, but not others... You might be able to make goggles with different layers of lenses | |
| Jan 28, 2016 at 20:04 | comment | added | Citizen | You could use a focused sound wave to create vibration that dislodge retina's from the cornea. There is also focused UV light lasers but that can be overcome with the safety glasses too. | |
| Jan 28, 2016 at 19:51 | history | edited | bowlturner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 28, 2016 at 19:47 | answer | added | AndyD273 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 28, 2016 at 19:41 | comment | added | AndreiROM | You build such a laser, I'll build the standard issue protection goggles which all troops are going to be equipped with from now on. | |
| Jan 28, 2016 at 19:05 | history | asked | DaaaahWhoosh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |