Lead shot's not as hard on chompers as is steel and bismuth. Just sayin'.How you gonna get a worm down to a catfish without lead ? I like lead. Lead is my friend. Long live lead and black powder !!
When you have things like malaria and smallpox and violence, lead seems like it would be way down on the list of problems.Rome was physically stretched too thin, full of corruption and infighting and could not hold off the vandals, visigoths, Muslims etc. That eroded the empire into dust. Several waves of plague and such also weakened it.
When Belesarius retook Rome after being in the hands of Ostrogoths for decades it was a shadow of its former self.
I've never read any reputable material that seriously considered lead as leading to its demise. I personally find the notion a bit ridiculous.
, Ya, but how else are ya gonna sweeten your wine?Too bad they didn't have OSHA!
I use tungsten weights for fishing. Nothing Carolina rigs like tungsten.Lead shot's not as hard on chompers as is steel and bismuth. Just sayin'.How you gonna get a worm down to a catfish without lead ? I like lead. Lead is my friend. Long live lead and black powder !!
Alright... a lot going on here. Firstly, "The Roman Empire" as it were, lasted from about 500BC give or take, to 1453 with the fall of Constantinople. Yeah, a mere 40 years before Columbus sailed the ocean blue. So as we gear up for our tricentennial in 50 years time let's remember our minute time in this world. Next let's all stop pretending there is this one thing called the Roman Empire and that we all know what brought that mythical monolithic idea of Rome down.
Lead is poisonous. This is a fact. It isn't a myth or an overblown conspiracy. But with every chemical substance, heavy metal, whatever, dose equals toxicity. That's the long and the short of it. No need for further explanation. Except that with heavy metals they don't always leave the body like organic compounds, thus toxicity accumulates over time.
I read somewhere years ago that the Roman's used the white powder that accumulates on the lead as a sugar if I remember correctly. Of course, the post finished off with the statement "which is why we don't speak Latin today".
The Scots really freaked them out! Got their chap Hadrian to build a wall.Bodies are pretty good at isolating foreign objects - walling them off so they're separated. Even cancer gets encysted, and best left that way rather than a doc cutting into it which allows it to spread.
As far as the Roman Empire, I've heard its downfall was Christianity. Towards the end it was pretty degraded with things like watching guys dying fighting wild animals and each other in the Coliseum, orgies, and stuff like that. Then the Christians came along and said "Go ahead and kill me, this isn't my only life. I won't go along with your crummy games." (all references to past lives were edited out of the bible at some point - I don't recall when) It's pretty tough on soldiers murdering good, decent people who weren't even resisting. They had controlled by threat of death and when that was challenged, it collapsed. Of course, the empire was on its way down anyway but who knows how much longer it might have continued.
A form of mercury filling is used today! But that's OK because it's not evil hunting or shooting!!Wasn’t lead used in dentistry?
So is benzene in gas . So is uranium, plutonium, we have lead in car batteries.Lead is poisonous. This is a fact. It isn't a myth or an overblown conspiracy. But with every chemical substance, heavy metal, whatever, dose equals toxicity. That's the long and the short of it. No need for further explanation. Except that with heavy metals they don't always leave the body like organic compounds, thus toxicity accumulates over time.
Isn’t no underwear under a skirt going commando?The Scots really freaked them out! Got their chap Hadrian to build a wall.
So anyone threatening you, wear a skirt, no underwear and act crazy!
I have been shooting since I was ten years old and shooting muzzleloaders almost 30 years now and I am 64 years old , I decided to get my lead levels tested recently and they were completely normal , just don't be breathing lead fumes when casting lead or breathing lead dust and wash your hands after handling ammo and I think we will all be fine !Lead is perfectly safe to handle but I would not recommend eating it. Minor exposure shouldn't be a problem in adults; children are a different story. Some plastics are much more toxic and are still used in food packaging! Politics and ignorance may be the end for us all.
One of the more famous being the Franklin Expedition in 1845.I believe some of the arctic explorations at the turn of the last century were doomed because of food stored in cans soldered with lead. The sailors were on ship so long eating lead contaminated food that they contracted lead poisoning and died. But that was an extended amount of time on a lead diet that did it.
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