On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Bill Marshall wrote:

> Here's a silly question.....
>
> Has anyone ever heard of those lenses causing a fire or damaging the interior
> by focusing the sun's rays onto a small area?

Hmm...unlikely, I think.  It's not a straight magnifying lens, where you
can focus all the light to a point.  It takes light coming in from a wide
angle and bends it into a beam that's about as wide as the lens itself.

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