On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:

> On Sep 17, 2016, at 4:44 AM, Richard Aiken <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> (distinct memories of the little warning label on my MILES gear about the unit being exempted from federal radiation safety standards . . . )

That’s because it’s a fairly high-powered IR laser meant to be aimed at people, not because it’s emitting gamma, alpha or beta particles ‘radiation’

Yeah.

But it's the thought that counts . . . :)

E.g. a certain percentage of injuries (even deaths) from "friendly" sources is acceptable in training, not to mention in action.

Richard Aiken

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein

"I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as Muhammed." Alexis de Tocqueville (1843)

"We know a little about a lot of things; just enough to make us dangerous." Dean Winchester

"It has been my experience that a gun doesn't care who pulls its trigger." Newton Knight (as portrayed by Matthew McConaughey), to a scoffing Confederate tax collector facing the weapons held by Knight's young children and wife.