Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/01/23

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Re: Canon F.95 vs Noctilux
From: chucko@siteconnect.com (Chuck Albertson)
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 21:49:03 -0800
 
And we also have to worry about a Mine Shaft Gap, and the purity of our
precious bodily fluids.


> Canon also used Thorium in their early 35F2.0 lenses.  It isn't
> Thorium you
> have to worry about though. It's Cobalt Thorium G. According to a
> reputable
> source:
>
>             "Cobalt thorium G has a radioactive half-life of ninety-three
> years.
>             If you take, say, fifty H-bombs in the hundred
> megaton range and
>             jacket them with cobalt thorium G, when they are
> exploded they
>             will produce a doomsday shroud. A lethal cloud of
> radioactivity
>             which will encircle the earth for ninety-three years!"
>
> Alex
>
> ;o)
>