# Model lines baby crib with lead to protect against "cosmic rays" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 11, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405 "2003-05-11T00:09:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lux\_Fiat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bc79bd/32.png) [@Lux\_Fiat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Fiat)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405/21 "2003-05-12T06:35:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samclem \* > [sub]Why do the ones with great breasts always have a screw loose? 😃 [/sub] Eerie. My own first thought was, “I see we have further evidence that ‘wonderful breasts’ need not equate to ‘staggering mental acumen’.” ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405/22 "2003-05-12T07:50:30Z")
They should make the planes out of lead; that would stop the cosmic rays. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405/23 "2003-05-12T12:41:08Z")
Don’t we call those ‘buses’? ---
**Author:** ![Aankh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ebca7d/32.png) [@Aankh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aankh)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405/24 "2003-05-12T12:41:16Z")
Planes made of lead. Soundtrack provided by the band Fountains of Wayne. Song: “Sink to the bottom with you”. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405/25 "2003-05-12T14:09:29Z")
Actually a heavier metal than lead would shield even more of the harmful rays… maybe Plutonium or something like that? ---
**Author:** ![nogginhead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5e9695/32.png) [@nogginhead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nogginhead)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405/26 "2003-05-12T19:03:21Z")
Getting dangerously close to “Why don’t they make the whole plane out of the stuff they use for the black box?” ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2003, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405/27 "2003-05-12T20:11:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Payton’s Servant \* > \*\*It’s a **very** inefficient way to ingest lead. If the baby were teething then there would be a problem, because lead is a fairly soft metal and the baby could scrape some off with its teeth and ingest it, but just licking it? Uh-uh. \*\* Cite? Sorry PS, don’t buy it. In my last job I had to handle lead occasionally. After just holding the lead in my hands for a minute or two my hands would be grey due to the metal rubbing off onto my hands. This is just holding the stuff mind you, I was not rubbing it. From this, I would think that a toothless child licking a piece of lead would injest quite a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405/28 "2003-05-13T04:50:05Z")
Anyone else think it’s peculiar that a woman that has repeatedly been seen tanning for hours in nothing but a pair of panties suddenly worries about radiation exposure and wraps herself in a lead blanket when she boards an airplane? ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405/29 "2003-05-13T05:05:17Z")
I’d say it’s credible evidence she baked her brain. ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405/30 "2003-05-13T05:11:14Z")
Eyer8, if this crib really exists, I highly doubt that the lead isn’t safely encased in something less poisonous. You know, like the little apron they put on you at the dentists office? -lv ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 9:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405/31 "2003-05-13T09:38:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LordVor \* > \*\*I’m a bit surprized that I’m the first poster who’s BS-meter was tripped as soon as he saw “as reported by British newspaper The Sun”. Isn’t that like the British version of the National Enquirer? > > -lv \*\* Nope, that’s _The Sport_ . The Sun is a newspaper reporting actual, proper news, but in easy to read words and with as many pictures of breasts as possible. Have a look for yourself: > **[The Sun](https://www.thesun.co.uk)** > > The Best for News, Sport, Showbiz, Celebrities ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405/32 "2003-05-13T12:23:32Z")
A model exhibiting flaky behavior…what are the odds? Next thing you will tell me is that J.Lo isn’t still Jenny from the Block. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405/33 "2003-05-13T16:12:45Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LordVor \* > \*\*Eyer8, if this crib really exists, I highly doubt that the lead isn’t safely encased in something less poisonous. You know, like the little apron they put on you at the dentists office? > \*\* I agree that it would probably be coated and thus safe even if the tyke was using it to teethe (though I would not let my daugter play with it). I just wanted to address the statement of Payton’s Servant that licking lead is not a good way to get your daily allowance. Lead is such soft material that a baby’s tongue would probably be very effective at removing material for injestion. In my previous job the lead I worked with was coated with a polyurethane based industrial paint that would be difficult to remove with a chisel (I worked with an industrial x-ray cabinet). Sometimes it was necessary to patch holes or test new cabinet designs that involved with working with uncoated lead. The stuff was nasty and would turn anything it came into contact with (hands, rags, tongues) a dark grey color. ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405/34 "2003-05-13T21:21:11Z")
Uh, so to protect from cosmic rays does this “crib” have a lid? Like a _ **coffin** _? That would be super-creepy, but either I’m missing something or the point would be moot if it’s still open on the top. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405/35 "2003-05-13T22:42:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by troub \* > \*\*Uh, so to protect from cosmic rays does this “crib” have a lid? Like a _ **coffin** _? That would be super-creepy, but either I’m missing something or the point would be moot if it’s still open on the top. 😕 \*\* No, no, no. Don’t you know, that cosmic rays always enter from the side and move in a horizontal manner? Come on people, lets get our quackery straight. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2003, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405/36 "2003-05-13T23:23:40Z")
Actually, cosmic rays come from above — cuz they’re, y’know, _cosmic_ — and therefore the lead-lined crib will _fill up with them!_ because they _come down_ and they’ve got _nowhere to go!_ and the baby is _swimming_ in cosmic _rays!_ Methinks the “protection” angle is just a story. Really, she’s tryin’ ta make herself a little Magneto. ---
**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405/37 "2003-05-14T00:09:58Z")
I now have that insanely catchy Cosmic Psychos song stuck in my head. Thanks, fuckers. ---
**Author:** ![RexDart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b77776/32.png) [@RexDart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RexDart)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2003, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405/38 "2003-05-14T00:23:44Z")
This just in: model does something stupid! Film at 11. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/model-lines-baby-crib-with-lead-to-protect-against-cosmic-rays/174405.md?page=1)