We took our 12.5" F8 Newtonian Dob up to a crowded camp site on the 4th of July a few years back, we had it sitting in a shady spot by the road with the shroud in place. Every car that came by stopped to ask what it was, and most of them tried to guess before asking. Every single one of them thought it was a canon, and the camp host even came to investigate to make sure we weren't lighting off some sort of explosive. I guess maybe someone didn't believe it was a scope and went to alert the host. I bet you'd scare those poor kids hair white if you launched a doll out of a scope! It might scar them for life. Of course in a twisted way it would be sort of fun to see what reaction you got. Just Joking! What would be really fun would be to make a scope that shot out candy, then all of that giving candy for questions we cant answer problem would be solved, the kids mouths would be too full to ask any. :) Lisa Zeigler www.johnstelescopes.com www.mirrorkits.com -----Original Message----- From: diveboss@xmission.com [mailto:diveboss@xmission.com] Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 9:20 PM To: Utah Astronomy Subject: RE: [Utah-astronomy] Star party etiquette for crumb crunchersandparents That's not a bad idea Lisa!!! I have a friend who has a black powder canon that looks like a Dobsonian Telescope. I'll bet if I were to glue an old focuser assy on the side, fill it with powder and stuff a life size doll down the tube and touched it off in front of the kids, launching the lifeless doll several blocks, I'll bet that would take care of any questions the kids may have. ;) Just kidding. Actually that would be fun to do at SPOC. Maybe strap a skate board to the feet of the life size doll just for laughs... ;) Still kidding! Quoting John and Lisa Zeigler <john@johnstelescopes.com>:
Solid tube Newtonian telescopes, no matter how much they look like trash cans or basket ball hoops are not for throwing things into. My very little kids have hammered one of our mirrors on a scope that sits
in the corner of our living room by putting toys "down the tube". Luckily it's a demo scope for teaching kids at schools about scopes.
Lisa Zeigler www.johnstelescopes.com www.mirrorkits.com
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