“Special blinding radiation” who comes up with this? Really it’s just:
A - you really shouldn’t look straight at the sun anyway
B - the dimming makes your pupils dilate but the sun is still really bright if you’re looking at it direct, which refer to A
3:12pm... it was a big nothingburger.
Michael Snyder will be disappointed that there will not be any death and destruction associated with the eclipse.
There will be, unfortunately, death and destruction in America, but not from the wrath of God. It will be from the treasonous conduct of the Biden administration.
The danger of watching a solar eclipse is that the ambient light gets darker, so your eyes dilate wider. But the surface of the sun that is still visible is just as bright as before. So it can burn tiny holes in your retina that only happens if you stare into a laser pointer.
The point is that looking at the sun can cause permanent eye damage. What happens during eclipses is that the obscuring of most of the sun makes it feasible to look at it for seconds without your eyes watering too much. That’s what causes the damage. Instead of a nanosecond during a normal day, people are able to look at the sun for many seconds during an eclipse. That’s what causes the damage - prolonged exposure. It’s a little like the person unable to feel pain being burned on a hot stove.
I used an arc welding hood. No problems.
There’s a host covering the sun!
It was a Y-U-G-E nothingburger. Boring.
The corona is much hotter than the photosphere, which is at 5800 K. The plasma is pumped to a much higher temperature ( order of a million K) by magnetic fields coupled to convection currents within the body of the sun.
So the central frequency of the radiation from this super high temp component of the corona is above the visible spectrum. To be specific, Wiens law gives the wavelength peak as inversely proportional to the temperature, and our yellow disc of the sun has its peak at 500 nm so the peak for the pumped corona, which is 20x as hot is at 1/20th of that wavelength, which is about 25 nm, which is hard UV. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Electromagnetic-Spectrum.svg
If you watch the sun during totality you can get a lot of hardUV without seeing a lot of brightness.
So here is where if there is any dangerous radiation during totality it would be UV, and soft X rays. These are there when the disk of the sun is present too but we wouldn’t stare at that because the brightness would hurt our eyes.
I asked a flight surgeon about what you need in protective glasses and he told me that your retina can get over UV like your skin can get over a sunburn. So I agree with the other response that UV protective glasses should be worn during totality. He said that the permanent damage from looking at the sun is (like someone said on the tread) an actual thermal burn, as someone here said, where the lens of your eye is the magnifying glass and your retina is the anthill. But your retina doesn’t have the heat sensitive nerves like your skin does so you might not stop in time.
I guess those Eurofags at CERN got bummed out with the dark matter crap they are trying to “accelerate”/find/pimping in regards to the eclipse today. Guess they need to host another Luciferian festival to energized themselves or whatever with the wealthy Eurofags for the grift.
The moon interposes between the Earth and the sun along distinct totality of darkness path. This article has a glaring incorrect statement about the moon’s shadow gliding across the sun. The shadow is the complete blockage of sunlight to a specific location on Earth— a shadow that glides across the Earth NOT the sun. Statement made no sense.
