Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!eder From: eder@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dani Eder) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Car Mounted Lasers Message-ID: <299@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Sun, 23-Dec-84 00:59:19 EST Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.299 Posted: Sun Dec 23 00:59:19 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 24-Dec-84 03:11:42 EST References: <1401@druxv.UUCP> <568@voder.UUCP> <768@oliven.UUCP> <2446@tekig.UUCP> Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 17 > > Actually, my sympathies rest with the person who suggested the 20mm cannon. > There is a flaw in this approach, however. Your car will invariably > be damaged by the shrapnel. I think a 3 or 4KW CO2 laser aimed at one > of their tires would be a lot more effective in just getting them out > of the way, and giving them a day 's amusement, gratis. I'm not so sure > it's technically unreasonable, either - A 6 kW CO2 laser would just about fit on an 18-wheeler. That's a little too big for what you want to do. Properly focussed, 6 kW will do a fair job cutting through plate metal. How about 1 Watt Helium-Neon laser in their rear-view mirror? P.S. I think a car tire is moving too fast and has too much air-cooling to be blown by a transportable laser. [The preceding has no correlation to the official position of the Boeing Company, a safety minded employer that builds passenger airplanes, B-52's Minuteman I,II,II, and Cruise Missiles.]