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From: sorka@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Alan Waterman)
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Subject: Re: Bad News- Lasers replace Radar guns
Keywords: radar laser police
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Are you sure the light intensity with vary 1/(distance^4)
That makes sense if the source emmits in a sphere, reflects and comes\
back as a sphere. But the laser shoots in a strait line so almost
all the light from the source reaches the destination. Am I wrong about
the laser beam?