Posted on 04/08/2024 12:22:44 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Stupidity lasts forever look at the libtards
WTF? The iris really? We are becoming this scientifically illiterate yet we are constantly berated to trust the science?
Perhaps someone should tell her not to breathe underwater.
Or not...
“Everyday is an IQ test.” - Chris Plante
shade 12 or higher.
All this made me remember what Feynman said about watching the Alamogordo test. Visible light can’t hurt your eyes, it’s the UV that gets you, and plain old glass filters out UV. He watched the test through a truck windshield and was fine afterwards.
Blind spot in her iris? I think she mean retina.Your vision is not in your iris which acts like a camera aperture.
Ten seconds? ONE second is ridiculously long time to look at the sun - I thought even children knew that. Many times, including today’s eclipse, I’ve briefly glanced at the Sun (a split second just to know where to aim a camera). Today the eclipse was beyond a cloud, which allowed me to look at it longer without doing any damage. When the cloud began to thin out, it was easy to tell when it was time to look away.
In my experience, it is painfully obvious that the unfiltered sun is going to do damage if you let your eyes linger more than a split second. It’s exactly the same as passing your hand through a flame - you can safely do it if you keep moving - and it’s painfully obvious when your hand is moving too slowly or has lingered too long.
I really do not understand how anyone - even a small child - could look at the unfiltered Sun for one second - much less TEN seconds - and not know they were damaging their eyes.
"Life was a carnival! In my day we didn't need moooovin' pitchurres. There was just one show in town, and it was called STARE AT THE SUN! You'd sit in the middle of an open field and stare up at the sun until your eyeballs burst into flames! Soon your head was on fire, and people were roasting chickens over it! And that's the way it was and we liked it!"
“Damn your eyes!”
I believe staring at the sun regardless of an eclipse or not is a no no.
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You can absolutely look at totality with no eye protection.But looking at a partial eclipse without eye protection is a no-no.
It is true that an eclipse is no brighter than the normal sun - but looking directly at the normal sun for even a quarter of a second can do irreversible damage.
10 to 15 seconds? I’m surprised she can see at all - it must have been partially overcast.
Think of passing your hand through a candle flame. As long as you keep your hand moving you can do it without burning yourself. If you stop or move it too slowly - you will get badly burned. Looking directly at the unfiltered sun is exactly the same principle, but the consequences of a burnt retina can be a lot worse than a burnt patch of skin on your hand.
I watched the eclipse today from Los Angeles with special glasses. It was pretty spectacular. There was an eclipse watch party in front of Tommy Trojan, the statue of a Trojan warrior in the center of the University of Southern California campus. Several telescopes were set up to view the event.
That’s one of the world’s first IQ tests. Stare at the sun, go blind, get eaten by something you could no longer see.
Staring at the sun during eclipse is a showcase example of a FAFO dumbass.
Look the dumbass up there’s a picture of her... you would think somebody would have more common sense than that FAFO dumbass.
Wasn’t BO the Prez at that time?
Don’t challenge the Sun. her case PROVES the Sun is brighter than she is.
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