Talk:3030: Lasering Incidents

Opportunity missed: Could have said "Santa's sleigh and other aircraft....". At least the laser beam is green. 172.68.27.100 22:41, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

that would have been dumb and late 172.71.135.85 22:52, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Why is everyone here interested only in commenting, and not being helpful? RadiantRainwing (talk) 23:37, 27 December 2024 (UTC)

Some people like to just comment, or are insecure about their explaining skills. Some people like to mainly focus on transcripts, other like to clean up grammatical mistakes, and some just enjoy to lurk and watch as the explanation slowly builds up. Don’t judge other people on something as frivolous as this. Besides, only two other people have commented and there have been 4 people who have edited the explanation and transcript, including me and you. 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 00:10, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Sorry. I was pretty annoyed, although it is cool to do the first draft. Besides, if you don't think you're good at explaining, it doesn't matter, because if the next editor thinks you did a bad job, then they'll fix it. RadiantRainwing (talk) 04:28, 29 December 2024 (UTC)

Also there has been talk about why there was no x-mas comic. Given the Parker probes record, there could have been a later x-mas reference here on 3rd x-mas day... But that was not to be. First time in 20 years without a Christmas comic in the holiday. There was a comic about Advent Calendars, but that was at the very start of December. So makes sense to comment on this, and that it woul dbe dumb just because it is late is a personel view. I would have welcomed a late x-mas reference... Now I'm awaiting to see if the 1st of January will be with a New Year comic. That has failed in 2021. So it would not be a first. --Kynde (talk) 15:27, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Consider the Christian pastor - or musician - who, year after year, has to come up with some new wrinkle on the s.o.s., that fits within the seasonal tropes or else. Randall's well might simply have run dry, and, don't haveta, not gonna. 172.68.22.223 18:01, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

you wouldn't actually see a green glowing line; that's not how lasers work 172.68.70.67 (talk) 00:33, 28 December 2024 (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

That would depend upon the conditions. It would need ultra low humidity (or entirely the wrong temperature to show it) and also a pretty dust-free environment to have no visible track of the laser, across the kind of distance where you're disrupting an aircraft (from on the ground on the sightline of a pilot) and with the laser of sufficient power to cause any mischief. And Rayleigh scattering applies to some degree even in clean+dry air, in conditions of at least reasonable darkness. 162.158.74.49 01:45, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

I've seen someone at an astronomy demo use a laser pointer to point at stars, exactly because of this effect. It worked pretty well, even without high humidity or dust. -- Phyzome (talk) 02:04, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Seconded. 42.book.addict^{Talk to me!} 04:13, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

I dunno, they never seem to catch these people who irritate soccer goalies with laser pointers... And i myself was once targeted with a laser pointer, some guy in the apartment house 200 meters away thought it funny to shine one through my living room window, and I had no idea where it was coming from... :--172.71.172.172 10:56, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Well if it is in a stadium it is hard to say who did it, if they put it away after. But near an airfield, when you are putting many lives at risk there may be a higher interest in catching these. But inttersting to know how many got arrested or fines for this kind of stupidity? --Kynde (talk) 15:27, 28 December 2024 (UTC)