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How staring at 2017 eclipse for just 10 seconds left me with ‘irreversible eye damage’
Breitbart ^ | 04/08/2024 | Isabel Keane

Posted on 04/08/2024 12:22:44 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

A Brooklyn woman who squinted at the 2017 solar eclipse for 10 seconds without proper eye protection is now warning others of the “irreversible eye damage” she suffered — including a blind spot in the middle of her left iris.

Bridget Kyeremateng, 29, told The Post on Monday — hours before a solar eclipse was expected to be partially visible in the Big Apple — that she looked up at the spectacle without any eye protection after being unable to secure a pair of protective glasses, thinking “a couple of seconds wouldn’t do anything.

“I couldn’t focus on the sun or the exact curvature of the moon. I thought I would close one of my eyes to get a better focus. I could barely see anything, but I stared at the sun for a good 10 to 15 seconds before my eyes were starting to not feel good, so I walked inside,” recalled Kyeremateng, who works in marketing in the Big Apple.

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To: ChicagoConservative27

Stupidity lasts forever look at the libtards


21 posted on 04/08/2024 1:08:45 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
including a blind spot in the middle of her left iris.

WTF? The iris really? We are becoming this scientifically illiterate yet we are constantly berated to trust the science?

22 posted on 04/08/2024 1:09:06 PM PDT by pfflier
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Perhaps someone should tell her not to breathe underwater.

Or not...


23 posted on 04/08/2024 1:16:20 PM PDT by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Everyday is an IQ test.” - Chris Plante


24 posted on 04/08/2024 1:17:57 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Nebr FAL owner

shade 12 or higher.


25 posted on 04/08/2024 1:28:03 PM PDT by NavyShoe
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


26 posted on 04/08/2024 1:49:01 PM PDT by BikerJoe
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Blind spot in her iris? I think she mean retina.Your vision is not in your iris which acts like a camera aperture.


27 posted on 04/08/2024 2:00:40 PM PDT by lula (1984)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


28 posted on 04/08/2024 2:12:18 PM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: enumerated

"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!"

29 posted on 04/08/2024 2:16:24 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Those bargain brand cardboard eclipse shades didn't seem to work much better, for these poor chaps.


 

30 posted on 04/08/2024 2:23:46 PM PDT by Songcraft ( )
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To: Songcraft

“Damn your eyes!”


31 posted on 04/08/2024 2:26:28 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CodeJockey

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.


32 posted on 04/08/2024 2:27:25 PM PDT by sunny bonobo
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To: mikelets456

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.


33 posted on 04/08/2024 2:27:34 PM PDT by enumerated (81 million votes my ass)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

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.


34 posted on 04/08/2024 2:33:16 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: dfwgator

:-)

35 posted on 04/08/2024 2:39:49 PM PDT by Songcraft ( )
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To: CodeJockey

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.


36 posted on 04/08/2024 2:46:02 PM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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Staring at the sun during eclipse is a showcase example of a FAFO dumbass.


37 posted on 04/08/2024 3:03:35 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Look the dumbass up there’s a picture of her... you would think somebody would have more common sense than that FAFO dumbass.


38 posted on 04/08/2024 3:05:18 PM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wasn’t BO the Prez at that time?


39 posted on 04/08/2024 3:12:16 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Don’t challenge the Sun. her case PROVES the Sun is brighter than she is.


40 posted on 04/08/2024 3:35:24 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star n )
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