On the CBS evening news tonite Scott Pelly reported on airline pilots being hit by lazers coming from the ground in the New York area. They showed some cheap low power lazer pointers you can buy anywhere for a couple bucks. I can't believe this story. I'm sure the networks have science advisors. It certainly could be that someone is shooting a lazer at those planes but it would have to be a more high powered thing to do damage. You can see how one of those pointers disperse when you shine it for longer distances. The spot gets quite large. A plane coming in for landing still would be a few hunded feet up. I have been hit in the eye by these lazers even pointing it at myself and it hurts but it certainly didn't burn my retinas. But a pilot a few hundred feet up? Come on! It just bothers me because accuracy in reporting is important at least to many.