Humor conglomerate “The Onion” has a March 15 2010 story on the ultimate laser pointer annoyance. Quoting unnamed sources, the Onion describes how a laser pointer aimed skyward in 1997 has now hit a planet 13 light-years away. Unfortunately for Earth, the planet’s inhabitants have the power to do something about it:
“What is that irritating dot?” Zoraxian Emperor Fi’ar Shal Shoka communicated in a telepathic message…. At press time, irritated Zoraxian military personnel were hard at work building a giant megalaser designed to incinerate the source planet of the irritation.
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