Melding Beam Weapons and Guns

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Originally Posted by Willy

It has a reason why in many nations, including mine the output of laser pointers is capped, some of them go in the 5 Watt range or higher, the time of exposure for eye damage is extremely short.
Depending how close you are it´s less than 1/10 of a second.
The distance to to the laser is also important.
Of course you need to differ between short time blindness, and lasting crippling injuries.

just randomly looking found https://www.ceenta.com/news-blog/can...nter-blind-you

10 seconds is mentioned between1 and 5 milliwatts, so the 1/10 second (that's 1/100 the time) I'm guessing is near 5 watts, which would be 1000x the power?

One mitigating factor would probably be a blink reflex: you just naturally tend to close your eye (or even raise an arm to block your face) when a bright light is shone in it.

Requiring 1/10 a second sounds like you could blind a maximum of 10 eyes in a single second, so RoF 10: but probably less since you're not immediately going from one eye to the next: you're "missing shots" in your ROF as you put the laser on intermediary places...

An alternative to ROF 10 though (which assumes a single shot will blind) would be doing something like ROF 100 and then saying TEN shots is needed to blind.

Damage somehow accrues and must build up quickly I would assume? Or would taking 0.01 second increments an hour/day apart eventually lead to the blinding damage 0.1 second would induce?