----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Portuesi" <portuesi@No-Spam>
To: <sf-bay-tac@No-Spam>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 8:03 AM
Subject: [TAC] Re: Followup on lead weights
> When I suggested lead, Jane Houston Jones wrote me in email
> to say that she got complaints from people about the lead
> weights on her Dobson solar scope - it's poisonous. Like
> most things in life, it's a tradeoff.
Lead is especially poisonous when it is accelerated to supersonic or near
supersonic velocities and find yourself on the receiving end. Many folks
that fell out of favor in Stalin's Soviet Union died from "lead poisoning"
of the variety I just described. I think a few game animals have also fallen
victim to the same phenomenon :-)
Hmm, those feral hogs at Fremont Peak..... BBQ by dawn!
rdc