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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 5236695" data-attributes="member: 35909">It doesn't take a very powerful laser to blind someone, just because of the nature of a laser.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_safety" target="_blank">Laser safety - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>"The coherence, the low divergence angle of laser light and the focusing mechanism of the eye means that laser light can be concentrated into an extremely small spot on the retina. A transient increase of only 10 °C can destroy retinal photoreceptor cells."In my optics class, we weren't using extremely powerful lasers, and even so safety was a major concern.  All the instruments were painted black to make sure no laser light would relfect off of their surfaces and risk blinding any of us, for instance.  Selling it with goggles and that extra lens is just helping to make it safer, and I think it's nice of the company to include those features.  Whether lasers like that should be sold commercially at all is a different issue, and something for the governement to decide on.  Apparently the government allows it, if ours didn't it'd be illegal to ship them to the U.S. still, for example.  Not seeing the problem. (Maybe I'm blinded by science /reference)As for the child safety issue...that's balloney.  If a parent lets their kid get their hands on one of those, or if a shopkeep seels one to a kid, they're the ones at fault.  And to try to blame Lucas for it because "they thought it was cool, like a lightsaber" is even more ludicrous, it's not his product.  Not saying stupid lawsuits don't happen (and too often unfortunately, are successful), but...it shouldn't be that way.</blockquote>

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