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From: tga@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Greg Ames)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.ham-radio,rec.autos
Subject: Re: Robocop spotted (Photo radar enforcement)
Message-ID: <8216@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU>
Date: 21 Feb 88 17:24:48 GMT
References: <602@anasaz.UUCP> <9774@tekecs.TEK.COM>
Reply-To: tga@eleazar.Dartmouth.EDU (Greg Ames)
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
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In article <9774@tekecs.TEK.COM> snoopy@doghouse.gwd.tek.com (Snoopy) writes:
>In article <602@anasaz.UUCP> john@tower.UUCP (John Moore) writes:
>
>> Finally, it will in the future
>> use a laser, making it totally undetectable with microwave radar
>> detectors.
>
>I assume they won't care about zapping people in the eye with lasers
>anymore than they care about zapping them in the eye with microwaves.

Small problem with the logic here...  Getting shot in the eye with laser
radiation has been scientifically proven to cause retinal damage, even
at fairly low doses.  Microwaves are harmless, except at high doses (all
they do to biological tissue is heat it, not cause cromosome damage)
To put it in perspective, a microwave oven emits about 700 watts (or more)
of power inside it.  Radar guns are on the order of a few hundred milliwatts
(or about .001 times the power of an oven)  All that a cop's radar gun will
do to you is heat your body tissue about .0000001 degrees.
                            -Greg

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