I'm going to "Laser" a pilot.

" Spewed...and was shut down.



If your assembly skills are as good as your grammar skills, our poor
troops are screwed. Here's a hint, I won't even charge a fee for. But
yourself a Thesaurus.
BTW, I call B.S. on your story. I know our Government farms out to the
lowest bidder. But damn, your a full blown tard. Surely they would
not allow you to build field gear...surely...

That's a wonderful description of your assembly and QA procedures.

Thanks, Sam. I'm sure this will find its way into my online diary, one
of these days (it's only been 10 years since I worked there!). There is
more I could add to it, but that's more along the lines of what life
was like at that time and place than technical description.

Erm... maybe I should add something about the QA Department? I don't
have a lot of technical details I could add, but the gossip would be
fine.

Could be immortalized in the Laser FAQ. :

It gives me great satisfaction that I can Google my name in your FAQ.
Thank you for quoting me in the past, and I look forward to being of
service to you in the future.

wrote in message news:

BTW, I call B.S. on your story. I know our Government farms out to the
lowest bidder.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

moo

wrote in message
ups.com...
" Spewed...and was shut down.



If your assembly skills are as good as your grammar skills, our poor
troops are screwed. Here's a hint, I won't even charge a fee for. But
yourself a Thesaurus.


But yourself a Thesaurus? But yourself a proofreader!

There is more I should say about the gold reflectors that make up the
walls of the oscillating cavity. I don't remember just now (though I
may have recorded it in my private diary) what the base metal is that
makes up the reflectors. The coating is gold.

The reflectors came to us the way all the other parts did, that is, in
a bucket that was placed on a shelf of left on a cart. The reflectors
were stacked on top of each other, with lens paper separating each
reflector half, and each half was identitical by design. Their smooth,
shiny, clean surfaces were beautiful. I had more of a chance to admire
their beauty as I had to clean each reflector with solvents prior to
assembly.

A third party originally gold-plated the reflectors, but my company
shifted to coating them in-house. I was impressed with the coating
quality, considering the trouble we had with the laser rods. But, I did
not have to examine the reflectos under a microscope for imperfections.
Even so, there were still issues with the coating.

There are tabs on the ends of the reflectors, which are supposed to fit
into slots set within the end pieces. Metal, mostly the gold-plating,
tended to build up on the tabs. Sometimes, the coatings were too thick
to allow the two halves to fit together inside the slot. In that case,
we had to file a little bit of the coating from the tabs. We had to be
careful not to file down to the deepest base level (I believe there
were three layers of metal making up the reflectors) or scratch the
inside surface of the reflectors. Fortunately, it was not difficult to
file down the reflectors according to specification, and I don't recall
any reflectors rejected due to filing.

I used a lens tissue to wipe up the filings from my workbench. I
thought the gold in them might eventually become a significant amount,
but it never did, as my supervisors had predicted.

In article . com,
wrote:

That's a wonderful description of your assembly and QA procedures.

For the record, I enjoyed it a lot also (though I've been having to
follow it as an OT discussion in r.a.p. since the Stanford Univ news
server doesn't get alt.lasers -- want to try sci.optics, who might like
it also?)

For the record, I enjoyed it a lot also

Thank you, AES.

(though I've been having to follow it as an OT discussion
in r.a.p. since the Stanford Univ news server doesn't get alt.lasers
--
want to try sci.optics, who might like it also?)

I haven't figure out how to get this new Google interface to
cross-post.

I have one, but your mom couldn't see the screen very well with her
mouth full and all...

I agree. How do we know these guys aren't seeing a flash or something
else - yet many people seem ready to immediately believe that what
they saw was a laser.
Retinal burns can come from various sources that these people may have
been near.


On 31 Jan 2005 13:37:52 -0800, wrote:

Those of us on alt.lasers are having several discussions of this same
topic. Our take is that this is a lot of nonsense, possibly with some
ulterior motive on the part of the government. One person wrote a
letter to one of the government agencies involved, and posted the
reply. The government stands by their story that a doctor (notice, one
doctor) found retinal burns on the pilots he examined (laser source
unknown). We still think it's a bunch of nonsense (several of us have
worked around a lot of lasers, and I, for one, have a degree in Laser
Electro-Optic Technology).

Cuz the evildoers have day jobs?



On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:33:28 GMT, Don Tuite
wrote:

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 11:56:49 +0000, 10Squared
wrote:

George Patterson wrote:

10Squared wrote:

Why would you give yourself away with a visible beam when
you can use a high powered optical sight?

Ever tried to use one at night?

Well, since this fantasy involves well-equipped evildoers they have night
vision scopes on their invisible ray guns.

If they're going to use optical scopes and invisible rays, why does it
have to be at night?

Don