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From: ethan@utastro.UUCP (Ethan Vishniac)
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Subject: Re: There are two kinds.... (actually highbeam twits)
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> > even AFTER you politely flash them and continue to nuke everyone
> > else's vision.. It's times like these that make me with I had
> > a nice little CO2 laser.. (that'd get 'em off the roads, now,
> > wouldn't it?)
> > 	andy
> 
> A CO2 laser might burn them to death but wouldn't blind them.  The 10 micron
> infrared light from a CO2 laser is invisible.
> -- 
> Bill Sebok			Princeton University, Astrophysics

Bill, I think Andy was suggesting blinding them permanently.  If a laser
will burn it will blind.  Wasn't the Pentagon thinking about this recently?
Of course, they'd only use it on Russian tanks with their high beams on :-).

"Don't argue with a fool.      Ethan Vishniac
 Borrow his money."            {charm,ut-sally,ut-ngp,noao}!utastro!ethan

*Anyone who wants to claim these opinions is welcome to them.*