Posted on 07/27/2006 6:46:58 PM PDT by traumer
This is soooooo frightening!!!!!! WHO would have thought that something as benign as the sun could harm you. We need a new law keeping people indoor during the day.
Crap! And I had a fiver on the moon!
Well thats it. I for one am done with the sun. Far too many people have become addicted to this sun object, and I want answers. At my next town council meeting I am going to put forward a proposal to ban this sun. I want whatever entity, no doubt some evil corporation, that is behind this monstrous sun to be sued for damages as well. We must do this for the children. I know I will be speaking truth to power about this sun from today forward.
Aha... a business opportunity again...
If they think the sun is bad now, wait until it expands to a red giant when it's hydrogen fuel gets depleted.
ban sunlight! pass a congressional bill prohibiting the sun from shining to much because it is a deadly thing
The heat-death of the Universe is a troubling prospect, but rather than quiver before the prospect of an always impending doom, I'll stick with the cowboy's philosophy:
"I eat when I'm hungry, I drink when I'm dry;
If a tree don't fall on me, I'll live 'til I die."
Dang! You beat me to it!
Down with the sun!!!
Bingo. Cancer deaths are inversely related to sun exposure. People in northerly climes die more readily of cancer due to lack of sun. Vitamin D deficiency is the likely culprit, enough of which cannot reliably be absorbed from food. Gotta get 10-15 minutes of full sun exposure (i.e. not a lot) per day to get enough.
In Fargo, that means the tanning bed on low for about 8 minutes three times a week in the winter. That's all the time I can muster. No tan, but cures what ails ya!
http://www.dentalplans.com/Dental-Health-Articles/Sun-exposure-reduces-cancer-and-disease.asp
Well, if I do that how am I going to get a tan?
Some earth scientists have recently claimed that particular matter added to the fuel of jet airplanes would increase the high haze by as little as 10%, blocking out all harmful rays. The cost would be about 100 million a year and the problem would be solved.
"Sun kills 60,000 a year, says WHO"
Well, there you go. And when it blows up the casualties will double, maybe triple.
No, the earth is many times worse than the sun, killing millions of people each year. How? They fall to earth and die, they hit their head on it, rocks fall from it and hit people, snow slides down it onto people and so on. Yes, the earth is a vicious killer.
Earth is a quagmire-we must pull out immediately!;)
Oh sure, you can all laugh and joke about this, but this is series.
THINK OF THE CHILDREN!
All lies. Too much sun never hurt anybody. This whole article was a left-wing attempt to get us afraid of our sun, and a feeble attempt to get us to accept Gore's ideas. The whole darn article was political.
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