Bad Idea Jeans

A few weeks ago I bought a green laser pointer from ThinkGeek for no good reason.  It's really very impressive and I played with it intently for 45 minutes before losing it in a desk drawer somewhere.  During that time, I performed a little thought experiment:  "I wonder what would happen", I thought, "if I pointed it at a passing airplane?"

It seems that somebody has actually run the experiment and the results are exactly as I'd imagined.