Those bargain brand cardboard eclipse shades didn't seem to work much better, for these poor chaps.
Ask an ant how long it takes. Oh, wait...
Chuck Norris begs to differ.
This is where I’m confused...they state it’s no brighter than the sun normally is...so why did this happen?
As a friend said, ‘stupid should hurt’.
Too bad she never learned how to read.
As I just posted on another thread, I saw a solar eclipse in 1979 without special glasses. Looked right at it during totality, then stopped looking when the edge of the sun showed again. But I did have to have cataract surgery only 39 years afterward.
Stupid prize awarded.
10 seconds is a long damn time to be staring at the sun.
Woman is too stupid to go to a hardware store & get a pair of welder goggles.
Woman is too stupid to go to a hardware store & get a pair of welder goggles.
We took off the sun shield glasses after it reached totality and saw the corona. As soon as the smallest sliver of the disc reappeared the shields went back on. Those 3 minutes of totality were amazing.
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
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.
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.