Re: [luv-talk] How many Lumens can blind you?

Russell Coker via luv-talk wrote:

One of the Tom Clancy books features CIA agents downing a Japanese military aircraft by shining a bright light at the pilots. [...] It's probably best that Tom Clancy used a less effective way of downing an airline given that terrorists have already copied one of his ideas.

PS: terrorists don't need Tom Clancy's CIA to give them ideas; the *ACTUAL* CIA will come around to their house and train them, for free. Start from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA#1953_Iranian_coup_d'état and look at all the mentions of "train".