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Laser Injures Delta Pilot's Eye

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the scary-thought dept.

stormfish writes "The Washington Times is reporting that laser light from an unknown source injured a pilot's eye as he was flying a Boeing 737 from Dallas to Salt Lake City. A 5 milliwatt laser pointer is strong enough to damage a person's eye, and stronger laser's are not that hard to come by. Unfortunately, having pilots wear colored laser safety glasses would be impractical as that would make it impossible to interpret the colored symbols on paper maps and cockpit displays."

2 of 772 comments (clear)

  1. Maps? by trailerparkcassanova · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Pilot don't use maps, they use charts.

  2. On Correct Use of the Apostrophe by arodland · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    We shall begin today by reviewing the correct use of the apostrophe, which is defined grammatically as ``the little thing that is hard to find when you put it inside quotation marks,'' as is shown in this example: ``'''.

    Even top professional writers have trouble with apostrophes, as we see in this quotation from William Shakespeare:

    ``O Romeo, Romeo

    ``Your lookin' fine in them tight's.''

    This is incorrect, of course: Shakespeare has used the word ``your'' as a participial infraction, which requires an apostrophe, as we see in this corrected version:

    ``O Romeo, Romeo

    ``You're buttock's are highly visible in them tight's.''

    --Dave Barry