Comment Re:I assume... (Score 1) 184
I am aware of this, but this is an entirely different phenomenon. Furthermore, I was only considering the ability of the laser to curve, not its potential lightning inducing qualities.
No matter the efficiency advantages of doing otherwise, every penalty applied to a human should be applied by a human.
But, speeding is a crime in that by speeding you are needlessly endangering other people's lives. Laws are not necessarily what is moral and in some cases for need of practicality, laws must be preventative instead of reactionary. Not that I'm advocating the extent to which they go, but by your logic we should remove ALL airport security.
Chemist who falls in acid is absorbed in work.