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Wow, this explains it all! I currently live on the beach in Dakar Sénégal. About 2 weeks ago, I was up late on my balcony and saw these dazzling green lights coming from really far out in the ocean. For one I was wondering what it was, and two, I was surprised that the green lights seemed to be coming from so far out from the ocean, but yet they were lighting up the beach like someone was standing right there with a…
What’s the danger of blindness?
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I imagine that it has rangefinding capability, and throttles the output based on distance to the target. It probably doesn't know and doesn't need to know whether the target is human.
That sounds reasonable, but the quite from OP says something completely different, it says "The laser rapidly determines if an unintended observer is within the nominal ocular hazard distance (NOHD) and immediately shuts off the glaring output to prevent accidental eye injury" - that doesn't sound like the mechanism you describe.
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I imagine that it has rangefinding capability, and throttles the output based on distance to the target. It probably doesn't know and doesn't need to know whether the target is human.
That sounds reasonable, but the quite from OP says something completely different, it says "The laser rapidly determines if an unintended observer is within the nominal ocular hazard distance (NOHD) and immediately shuts off the glaring output to prevent accidental eye injury" - that doesn't sound like the mechanism you describe.
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Who says that one isn’t intended to do that?
International Law? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_on_Blinding_Laser_Wea...
Two side observations unrelated to the laser rifle: 1) It's surprising or kind of amusing that such a huge and complex submarine uses plain old Raytheon / Raymarine radar when operating in harbor, etc. as if were just a little sailboat. But whatever works and is effective! I wonder how it has to be dismantled and put up, taken down each time? Perhaps it's mostly for being visible to other ships/monitoring stations? I…
Submarines, in general, rely primarily on their passive sensors- passive sonar and EW receivers. A submarine's best offensive and defensive capability is stealth.
Wow, this explains it all! I currently live on the beach in Dakar Sénégal. About 2 weeks ago, I was up late on my balcony and saw these dazzling green lights coming from really far out in the ocean. For one I was wondering what it was, and two, I was surprised that the green lights seemed to be coming from so far out from the ocean, but yet they were lighting up the beach like someone was standing right there with a…
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>It's obviously propaganda but it is very interesting nonetheless. Sorry, how is this video obviously propaganda?
Ok so destin works as a scientist for the us gov. He did a video a while ago where he interviewed a general about the cyber domain of warfare. In this interview they discussed that the interview itself was part of that cyber domain, and the access they provide to destin is a part of the US presence in the cyber domain. [0] The pentagon clearly sees smarter everyday as a channel to spread information to a certain audi…
Which term you use reveals your political leanings about a topic.
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>It's obviously propaganda but it is very interesting nonetheless. Sorry, how is this video obviously propaganda?
The US military isn't just doing it out of the goodness of their hearts. They want you to become a submariner! Or at least that's what I think he's implying.
Two side observations unrelated to the laser rifle: 1) It's surprising or kind of amusing that such a huge and complex submarine uses plain old Raytheon / Raymarine radar when operating in harbor, etc. as if were just a little sailboat. But whatever works and is effective! I wonder how it has to be dismantled and put up, taken down each time? Perhaps it's mostly for being visible to other ships/monitoring stations? I…
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What’s the danger of blindness?
The Red Cross still considers them to be dangerous. The human eye (depending on the person) magnifies light 100,000-500,000 times. The inverse square law means that only minor variations in distance can have large differences in effective light (laser irradiance conforms to this law). Rangefinders aren't perfect and the smaller they are, the harder it is to detect the range accurately (inverse square law again). Lase…