Hey Moo, did you ever do that promised laser test? I'm interested in
the results, if any...

As far as actually blinding a pilot (even if temporarily) at a
distance, it is a trivial task... It will take roughly $5K worth of
commercially available industrial equipment and one semester worth of
physics 101 ( a lifetime of brain washing in paranoid superstition and
fanaticism won't cut it)...

Denny