msdogfood writes:

This is my public service announcement to the idiots who have decided
to shine green laser pointers into the cockpits of airplanes either
taking off, landing or ascending to cruising altitude. Stop doing it!
You could kill hundreds of people and I or some of my friends might be
one of them.

People stupid enough or psychopathic enough to try to blind other people with
lasers are unlikely to pay much heed to your demand.

For those of you who don' know, when a laser of any
colour is shone into your eyes, it can take the optic nerve a minute
or two to recover normal vision and depth perception to say nothing of
being able to see the colours of warning lights on the instrument
panel.

The optic nerve doesn't care, but the receptor cells in the retina do. They
may take minutes to recover ... or they may never recover, leaving a permanent
blind spot.

Depth perception requires only that both eyes work. Depth perception isn't
very important most of the time when flying, however, since it only works
within a range of 30 metres or so.