Talk:Lasers and aviation safety

message: Underneath "Accidental vs. deliberate exposure", there is a sentence which says "(To demonstrate this, aim a laser pointer at a retroreflective street sign a block or two away.)". It may be a good idea to revise this as it may serve to encourage others to point laser pointers (most likely deliberately) out in the public, in addition to surprising others who happen to be witness to such a demonstration.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Saphius (talk • contribs) 04:19, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point.  I have taken the simple solution by removing the suggestion.  It was not particularly encyclopedic in any case. Pzavon 01:55, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Demonstration" 

message: This article previously had a photo of a laser guide star. Someone removed it, but I am unclear as to the reason. (The reason cited was that the photo appears in Wikimedia Commons, but I don't think this is true. The removed photo is NOT in Wikimedia Commons.)
Is it possible to use another photo of a laser guide star? There is one in Wikimedia Commons at http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Keck_laser_at_night.png. I don't want to add this willy-nilly without understanding 1) if this is OK and 2) the best way to do this.
Any help from more experienced Wikipedians is appreciated. If you could just put the cited photo in, that would be great.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pmurph5 (talk • contribs) 23:31, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to add photo of laser guide star 

message: While reading this article, I felt that a lot of the diction (wording) was a lot less formal or encyclopedic then most of Wikipedia's articles. The real standout was this: "Note that while the distances given are exact ("52 feet", "262 feet"), the laser's brightness is in fact falling off slowly. It is not as if at 51 feet the laser is an eye hazard and at 53 feet it is eye safe," but I don't think that's the instance.
I didn't see any first person, though, or any other obvious problems, and I'm not exactly sure how to word this otherwise. Is this against the style guide, and if so, how should it be worded? Dylan (talk) 22:27, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colloquial  Diction in Article? 

message: I don't know anything about lasers and the article really just does not give me a sense for how grave an issue this is, except for saying "if this," or "if that," a plane might become involved in a serious accident.  I mean I really don't understand what kind of lasers the article is discussing.  What is "a legal 5 mW laser pointer"?  Is it like the laser pointers you can buy at Office Max for $25USD?  Obviously I could take the link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_pointer and wade through all of that too, but couldn't "Lasers and aviation safety" provide some succinct explanation that would give the laser-ignorant like me some sense for the gravity of this problem?  Arcanicus (talk) 17:48, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Question of Proportion 

message: This is a highly detailed article for what amounts to "Pointing bright lights at airplanes could theoretically cause a crash." Did this come from a government manual? It's ridiculous. How about pointing lasers and bright lights at cars? Isn't that 1000 times more likely to catch a driver in the eye and 1000 times more likely cause a crash if it does? This smacks of a moral panic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.52.13.130 (talk) 18:29, 4 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Moral Panic

message: http://mashable.com/2013/07/01/egypt-protestors-laser-pointers/
Pilots deal with the sun, moon, and lightning all the time. All more powerful than lasers. 2602:304:B167:A420:4C93:2EC1:24AD:6F5A (talk) 05:51, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Video of hundreds of lasers having no effect on helicopters

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message: Citation 33, USA Today "N.J. man charged with aiming laser…" by Alan Levin 2005 points to a broken link. I couldn't find the article in USA Today archives or Internet Archive.  Quesoteric (talk) 17:17, 5 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: @Quesoteric Fixed the link. Reconrabbit 22:07, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
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