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lasers in pilots eyes, hysteria?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,315 ✭✭✭Chalk


    man, that topic is so misleading :/


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭Kingsize


    if you are close enough to blind the pilot why not strap a sniper rifle to that
    laser & get the job done good style
    seems weird to me


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    guns leave forensics


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,424 ✭✭✭joejoem


    guns leave forensics


    I dont think terrorist give a flying shíte about forensics.


    No pun intended


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,106 ✭✭✭John R


    Just more hyped-up US terrorist scare bull.
    The accuracy needed to blind both pilots would be much higher than a sniper rifle or automatic gun barrage of the cockpit.
    As well as the fact the plane would have to be almost on the ground to realistically get an angle to blind the pilots this is total ****e.
    TBH releasing a truck-load of large sea birds into the path of a plane during take-off would be a much better plan of attack.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    Chalk wrote:
    man, that topic is so misleading :/
    I agree. I thought it was going to be about pilots with laser beam eyes who would destroy us all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 925 ✭✭✭David19


    The real question is who's doing it and why? Is it just a prank? It doesn't seem like it is now.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,709 ✭✭✭BolBill


    FEAR people, let us all be ruled by FEAR !!!!!!!!!
    We haven't mentioned the WAR ON TERROR since all the news is about tsunamis, so lets throw out some FEAR to keep the masses in their place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    joejoem wrote:
    I dont think terrorist give a flying shíte about forensics.


    No pun intended

    Depends whether they are dedicated terrorists.... why use a gun that leaves tracable evidence that can lead u to being caught and putting an end to yur terrorism days.

    Next, I have never shot a gun in my life but how fast is an approaching airplane travelling? I reckon u would wanna be a better than decent shot to take out both the pilot and co pilot and so on and so forth.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    I agree. I thought it was going to be about pilots with laser beam eyes who would destroy us all.


    LOL rep++


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,872 ✭✭✭segadreamcast


    Yeah I caught this story last week - really not sure what's going on there. Teenage pranksters? It seems a bit too sophisticated to be - considering the altitude that was involved...

    Several different pilots have verified it - however - several pilots have also verified the bermuda triangle theory, so that isn't saying much. For now, I'll sit on the fence and wait for some palpable evidence to come along whilst hoping that U.S. security are working to eradicate this threat - if it exists.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    I think after the terrorists crashed planes into buildings, the Dept. of Homeland Security have all been sitting around reading Tom Clancy novels to see whats coming next (ref "The Bear and The Dragon").


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,101 ✭✭✭Kingsize


    Probably plane spotters or idiots!(or both)
    people leave rocks on the railway tracks but i dont think they are terrorists even though is highly dangerous
    i do remember reading a theory that there was a series of crashes in the 70's
    involving lockheed dc-10's which aparently had a design fault in the back door( they ripped off/weakened) during take off.
    somebody got wind of this & developed a way of attacking & accentuating this fault with a sonic device, thus causing the crashes & blackmailing the manufacturers.

    could all be bolix of course...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,602 ✭✭✭daymobrew


    N.J. man charged with aiming laser at aircraft
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=39&u=/usatoday/20050105/ts_usatoday/njmanchargedwithaiminglaserataircraft

    When the guy was first arrested, earlier in the week, the article (which I, of course, cannot find) said that the FBI denied that terrorists were planning to use lasers to down aircraft.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,689 Mod ✭✭✭✭stevenmu


    NoelRock wrote:
    For now, I'll sit on the fence and wait for some palpable evidence to come along whilst hoping that U.S. security are working to eradicate this threat - if it exists.
    They've arrested somebody for it already, story at El Reg. Presumably they have some kind of evidence, altough he was arrested under the patriot act so we may never know


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,259 ✭✭✭RicardoSmith


    Depends whether they are dedicated terrorists.... why use a gun that leaves tracable evidence that can lead u to being caught and putting an end to yur terrorism days.

    Next, I have never shot a gun in my life but how fast is an approaching airplane travelling? I reckon u would wanna be a better than decent shot to take out both the pilot and co pilot and so on and so forth.

    Whats a dedicated terrorist vs an undedicated terrorist?

    Guesstimate, when landing 100-200 mph. Be like hitting a F1 driver.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,254 ✭✭✭chewy


    ok again this man was only arrested after the story has been in the news, so this guy could still just be a coincidence of the hysteria.... the first story I read, *i think* said, said the first incidents happend a couple of years ago, before this warning came out.... but still a man being arrested doesn't mean its real...

    followingthe links on the register you come to this, is it even possible?

    http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:_4ue93SHHSQJ:cable.shiftlock.com:8009/+lasershoppe&hl=en


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,909 ✭✭✭✭Wertz


    Terrorists my ass; everyone knows it's aliens. ALIENS I TELL YOU!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    Whats a dedicated terrorist vs an undedicated terrorist?

    Guesstimate, when landing 100-200 mph. Be like hitting a F1 driver.


    LOL... well different variants there.....

    A dedicated terrorist could bea suicide bomber but he would also be undedicated because he is a bit of a fire and forget terrorist. He gets called dedicated as well cos he/she blows himself up.

    Undedicated terrorist would be the type of guy to try something like a grand stage kidnapping like the Iranian Embassy siege back in the 70's. This is undedicated because the terrorist will eventually be stopped.

    Dedicated is someone who puts time and effort into what he/she is doing and by using their brains can successfully strike again and again.


    Am I just bored and making this up as I go along? Yes I am and I'll stop now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,228 ✭✭✭Scruff


    tis a neocon industrial fear mongering exercise to get the us to impose a ruling saying that every airliner must have a new prand spanking windscreen that diffuses the laser hamlessly and can only be bought from company X, where members of the government are on the board, hold shares etc.

    this will then be applied to all froms of motor transportation enriching all concerned.

    either that or is the aliens who are in leage with a neocon industrial fear mongering exercise to get the us to impose a ruling saying that every airliner must .....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    the only way a terrorist could down a jet from the ground using a laser beam is if it was a targetting laser for an incoming missile.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,542 ✭✭✭kinkstr


    I agree. I thought it was going to be about pilots with laser beam eyes who would destroy us all.

    that would be kool


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 34 Jahl


    I think Board.ie is in need of a Conspiricy forum! Lets fuel the fear/hysteria.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,542 ✭✭✭kinkstr


    shhhh there watching us right now


  • Subscribers Posts: 9,716 ✭✭✭CuLT


    The Cuckoo's Nest, for all your crackpot theories and insane ramblings!


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