Re: March for Women's Lives

At 10:42 PM 4/29/04, Julia Thompson wrote:


> But I'd much rather give my kid a magnifying glass than let him spread
> the ant poison on the any of the 150 antmounds we have on the property.



If you do that (I am not making a recommendation here), just be sure it is 
a genuine magnifying _glass_, as many of the plastic ones I have 
experimented with¹ appear to not pass enough IR to get something¹ at the 
focal point hot enough to burn.

Of course, this introduces safety issues of its own, such as what may 
happen if he drops it on a hard surface and it shatters . . .

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¹FWIW, my experiments generally involved materials such as paper or dry 
leaves . . .



-- Ronn!  :)