eder@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dani Eder) (12/23/84)
> > 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.]