I ask myself, "Why does the government say its illegal to point a laser in the sky?"

Sure, I've heard the excuse about blinding pilots.

But, hey, haven't we all accidentally picked up a laser mouse and hit our eyes with it? Or been standing at the grocery checkout and got our eyeballs accidentally scanned for a barcode?

Have you ever used a firearm with a laser sight at a range and pointed it at a target 25-50 yards away?

How hard would it be to hit a target 30,000 feet in the air, traveling at 600mph with that same little red dot, and actually hit the pilots eyeball long enough to make him (and the co-pilot) blind?

Then I read posts like this that seem to give me the hidden answer I sought for.

5 *'s, OP.