Actually, depending on cloud height, raindrops might be immediately lethal. If the rain was water with 1% Os suspended in each drop, the impact wouldn't do significant harm, but if 1% of the drops were solid osmium, they'd have a terminal velocity close to the speed of sound (a round drop couldn't fall supersonic, at least at low altitudes) -- the rain would be like getting hit with the fringe of a charge of birdshot at 25 yards or so. Unlikely to kill, as demonstrated by Dick Cheney a few years ago, but getting caught in a shower could result in an ER visit to get the osmium drops picked out of your scalp and shoulders, plus possible eye injuries (looking up at what's hitting you is a reflex) -- and if your luck is bad that day, you could die directly from a raindrop wound. Going outdoors during the rainy season would entail wearing light armor and at least a hard hat and safety glasses, if you have more sense than a teen boy.
Interesting gunshot fact: most times, unless a bullet is in a location where slight movement could be fatal, they aren't removed; the surgery to pull a bullet out is likely to do more harm than leaving the bullet where it is. The body will encyst the lead and if it doesn't rub on a bone or similar the lead won't dissolve -- hence the bullet can remain, harmless, for decades. That would not be the case if you were using osmium shot -- its toxicity is much higher than that of lead. In fact, cost aside, use of osmium shot would be a Federal crime in the United States, where it's illegal to use poisoned bullets or ammunition.Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical questions
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