I gave a tour, yesterday, of the laser to a small group that included a couple of guys from DARPA and a fellow involved in the PAN-STARRS project... There is a PAN-STARRS project on Maui, and they are currently trying to replace one of the UH telescopes on Mauna-Kea with a bigger Pan-STARRS project... The number this fellow gave was 400 meter NEO and bigger would be detected... the amount of data generated would be immense.

We talked a bit about it when I drove them down to HP from the summit (Their car was broken because they hit a rock on the way up and destroyed their drive shaft)... It was an interesting experience to meet them all. They seemed genuinely interested in the laser...