[hiredhand]

Uh...I won’t even go into the amount of watts of power a laser must apply in order to go through a human head...because honestly I don’t know exactly...but it’s a LOT! I used to get talk to researchers at an AF base I was assigned to that were working on laser projects back in the early 1990s and a couple of times we got to stand in the “safety zone”...wearing the “extra special goggles”...and watch them cut holes in various substances.

[randog]

Perhaps a CO2 laser you saw. Hey, there’s a link—the “deadly greenhouse gas” killed Bhutto!!

Seriously, a laser large enough to cook someone’s brain would have to be fairly large and difficult to aim at a moving object. I would think the good people of Rawalpindi (sp?) would have noticed a tank-sized device being manhandled into place, too.

[Sender]

I got to play with a 60-watt CO₂ laser once, and there is no way it could do what they are claiming, and it was as big as a small refrigerator.

I suspect you would need hundreds of watts of laser energy, which would be a very large, heavy device, using kilowatts of electricity. It couldn't be plugged into ordinary electric outlets. Only the military could have something like this.

The whole laser wound theory sounds like bunk.