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adjl posted...

I imagine it wouldn't be too hard to coordinate a temporary no-fly zone to establish a safe radius for the hour or so that would be needed to have a reasonable buffer on either end of the show. It might be a bit tricky to find safe flight paths on the night of the 4th, since pretty much every community will be putting on a show, but I would think something could still be worked out (even if that's just protective goggles for pilots between ~8 and 12).

Those protective glasses only work for a certain bandwidth of light, with the general rule of thumb that you have highpass glasses that let light above green in, or lowpass glasses that light below green in. There's a big of an issue during light shows because they tend to use multiple different frequencies of light, or just a single frequency. Eeeh, I suppose if they make it all blue/red it would be fine, it's just that people get bored of those.

No-fly zones would work, as long as the lasers don't aim too far down, because high powered lasers go beyond the horizon, so if you aim it badly, you can get a reflection at a bad angle or just have a small oopsie, you can cause major problems.
See: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14310-party-laser-blinds-russian-ravers/

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