After watching quite a bit of StyroPyro on
YouTube, who’s experience with lasers is frighteningly impressive, and while I can’t say for certain if such a laser would affect them, I believe they are probably not designed to take such energy, and it might mess with them significantly. That said, given the inverse square law, I couldn’t predict the minimum required distance to target necessary to mess with them.
Inverse square doesn’t directly apply to lasers though, as the law presumes an even dispersal of energy per distance unit - but lasers, as the name suggests, are designed to not disperse even at large distances (which is why it’s super dangerous to shine powerful lasers up into the sky, the brightness remains quite even, even at large distances, easily blinding pilots), and the distances we’re talking about - presumably human-guided lasers so at most around 500-700m - the energy dispersion would be so low that a 5W laser would register around 4.9W when it hits the camera.
After watching quite a bit of StyroPyro on YouTube, who’s experience with lasers is frighteningly impressive, and while I can’t say for certain if such a laser would affect them, I believe they are probably not designed to take such energy, and it might mess with them significantly. That said, given the inverse square law, I couldn’t predict the minimum required distance to target necessary to mess with them.
That last laser video of theirs was amazing. I want one.
Inverse square doesn’t directly apply to lasers though, as the law presumes an even dispersal of energy per distance unit - but lasers, as the name suggests, are designed to not disperse even at large distances (which is why it’s super dangerous to shine powerful lasers up into the sky, the brightness remains quite even, even at large distances, easily blinding pilots), and the distances we’re talking about - presumably human-guided lasers so at most around 500-700m - the energy dispersion would be so low that a 5W laser would register around 4.9W when it hits the camera.