You should change your evaluation to "almost no chance".
If there was an IDF soldier in the area pointing a gun or laser, the Arab civilians and vehicles would not be hanging around as if nothing was happening.
Most, if not all, would get off the street because who wants to be shot?
Some might instead throw rocks at the soldier because that is safe and the journalist would have a great story.
I have a what claims to be a green tactical laser for my paintball gun. Its puts off a very visible greem beam that shows both what I am aiming at and where I am LOL.
Totally useless really but it has what we call a TACTICOOL factor to it. Completely useless but looks tactical and cool
Lasers can have different divergence in different axes (an elliptical beam cross-section instead of circular) or they may be circular. I've never seen a commercial laser pointer that was an ordinary LED. There is a key optical property called etendue which is the product of the beam width times the divergence angle. I think that lasers are capable of much smaller etendue than LEDs. Either way, you can tell whether its a laser or an LED by shining it on a surface and looking for speckles - tiny spots which are much brighter than the rest of the dot and which move around within the spot as the spot is moved over the surface. These are caused by an interference pattern which only shows up with coherent light (a laser)
Lets not discount the fact the laser is visible to multiple people, including the journalist and camera man, yet nobody is panicked or even remotely concerned. Its obvious they know there is no imminent threat.
This is someone’s laser pointer right by him. Wrong color, wildly uncontrolled beam, and unnecessary. A sniper wouldn’t advertise like that. Odds are << unlikely.
You should change your evaluation to "almost no chance".
If there was an IDF soldier in the area pointing a gun or laser, the Arab civilians and vehicles would not be hanging around as if nothing was happening.
Most, if not all, would get off the street because who wants to be shot?
Some might instead throw rocks at the soldier because that is safe and the journalist would have a great story.
I have a what claims to be a green tactical laser for my paintball gun. Its puts off a very visible greem beam that shows both what I am aiming at and where I am LOL.
Totally useless really but it has what we call a TACTICOOL factor to it. Completely useless but looks tactical and cool
I'm surprised you are assigning scenarios to the "improbable" column after you debunk them so thoroughly. Why not highly improbable or remote?
For some reason in certain portions of the world, many people have lasers like this. They love to point them at aircraft they fly by.
Well, we’ll find out when the next Press member gets killed…. Questionably
I appreciated the joke at the end of the ad; it made me smile.
Is the divergence in different axis (vertical and horizontal parallel to the vest) the same?
Many commercial laser pointers aren't lasers. They are normal LED with a focus lens.
I would say the green dot was added CGI in post production. No one is reacting to it. Leads me to believe it is not real
Lasers can have different divergence in different axes (an elliptical beam cross-section instead of circular) or they may be circular. I've never seen a commercial laser pointer that was an ordinary LED. There is a key optical property called etendue which is the product of the beam width times the divergence angle. I think that lasers are capable of much smaller etendue than LEDs. Either way, you can tell whether its a laser or an LED by shining it on a surface and looking for speckles - tiny spots which are much brighter than the rest of the dot and which move around within the spot as the spot is moved over the surface. These are caused by an interference pattern which only shows up with coherent light (a laser)
Lets not discount the fact the laser is visible to multiple people, including the journalist and camera man, yet nobody is panicked or even remotely concerned. Its obvious they know there is no imminent threat.
This is someone’s laser pointer right by him. Wrong color, wildly uncontrolled beam, and unnecessary. A sniper wouldn’t advertise like that. Odds are << unlikely.
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