I became curious about the "special glasses".Dark filters.... yep. Pretty spooky stuff.
With NASA lying about almost everything, I feel as though NASA is lying about needing them as well.I mean, if you don't want to go blind...
Of course, you can't stare at the sun for long periods on any given day.So short periods are ok?
But what makes the solar eclipse so special to the point that people can't look at it without having some sort of negative reaction?What negative reaction?
I saw some Flat Earthers on Twitter discussing the glasses and claiming that NASA is trying to hide the truth by using the glasses.Or using the glasses so you can view it.
I'm just curious about what you all think. Do you believe what they say? Do you think they are trying to hide something?My friends got their glasses from the credit union, so they must be in on it too. Yes. No.
And did any of you look at the eclipse without the eclipse glasses?Yes, during totality.
Hello everyone. I just recently became a Flat Earther. With the solar eclipse happening yesterday, I became curious about the "special glasses". With NASA lying about almost everything, I feel as though NASA is lying about needing them as well. Of course, you can't stare at the sun for long periods on any given day. But what makes the solar eclipse so special to the point that people can't look at it without having some sort of negative reaction? I saw some Flat Earthers on Twitter discussing the glasses and claiming that NASA is trying to hide the truth by using the glasses. I'm just curious about what you all think. Do you believe what they say? Do you think they are trying to hide something? And did any of you look at the eclipse without the eclipse glasses?
...Of course, you can't stare at the sun for long periods on any given day. But what makes the solar eclipse so special to the point that people can't look at it without having some sort of negative reaction?Nothing. The eclipse doesn't suddenly make it dangerous to look, it's always dangerous. What the eclipse does is make it tempting to look. Now that the eclipse is over, there's nothing to see and nobody is tempted to look. But you could, on any day of the year, safely look at the sun with eclipse glasses.
...did any of you look at the eclipse without the eclipse glasses?I looked DURING totality only, when the corona was the only part of the sun that was visible. I had solar filters on my camera and binoculars, and when the last sliver of sun vanished, I looked at the sun without filters. Other than that, I certainly hope nobody did what you suggest. I may argue and fight with you FE types, but that doesn't mean I actually bear you any ill will. I definitely wouldn't wish blindness on any of you.
The whole thing about glasses and becoming blind after observing an eclipse is probably another indoctrination we've been overfed with to become fearful and not ask questions.
All the statistics, reports about blindness rate can and will be rigged. It's not so hard to fake something, if you have a lot of money and squeeze socio-economical status of humans working in related organizations.
If you practice sungazing regularly, the eclipse won't do nothing to your vision, also it could be, but less possible, an egregore thing.
If you practice sungazing regularly, the eclipse won't do nothing to your visionTrue, because you'll already be blind if you've been regularly looking at the sun, the eclipse would have no opportunity to do additional damage.
If you practice sungazing regularly, the eclipseTrue, because you'll already be blind if you've been regularly looking at the sun, the eclipse would have no opportunity to do additional damage.won'tWILL do NOTHING to your vision
Kids, Hmmm is either a troll or an idiot. Please do not take his/her words seriously.
If you practice sungazing regularly, the eclipseTrue, because you'll already be blind if you've been regularly looking at the sun, the eclipse would have no opportunity to do additional damage.won'tWILL do NOTHING to your vision
Kids, Hmmm is either a troll or an idiot. Please do not take his/her words seriously.
If you do sun gazing without a filter, you will probably see NOTHING afterwards.
Seriously :
Once again.:
Best place to do some sun gazing is at an observatory.
Some of them have special cameras with filters and with close-circuit tv's so you can see a large picture of the sun - eclipse or not - safely.
And maybe not to be taken so seriouly : ???
News Flash !
I read where a total eclipse will be visible in Texas in 2024.
A team of Texas A&M Aggies are planning a sun landing to land on the sun and explore the sun.
Just to be safe they plan to do this at night or during a total eclipse.
Spend a hundred dollars on a cheap solar telescope and see for yourself.$5 for a #14 or 15 welding lens and cheap compact binos will let you watch an eclipse, see sunspots, transits, etc. Add a cheap point and shoot camera and something to steady the binos and you can get pictures as well.
The 2024 is supposed to be a total here in Austin. That will be awesomeEver watched one before? I drove about a hundred miles (just checked on mapquest, 130 miles) south to watch it in Oregon. Not having to go anywhere would be great. I do have some relatives in Austin... I might even consider flying down there.
why we had to listen to every news channel in the nation warn usStinkyOne, be aware(=beware) that usually news channels are just brainwashing us, and the human workers at news companies are even more heavily brainwashed and tricked than we are.
There is no freaking conspiracy about the sun.I will never agree on that. I'm still researching both sun and moon. The conspiracy is that the sun is 80-100% artificial, not natural, technologically made plasma/hologram/complex system object(sun simulator) and it exists in multitudes(nibiru sightings (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nibiru%2C+short%2C+week)). Instead of a sun, there is a "sun system", that consists of multiple of suns sometimes interchanging one another and working at a variable/constant looping paths above different regions of earth.
Kids, Hmmm is either a troll or an idiot. Please do not take his/her words seriously.Rounder, i know that "kids" is just a locution, but it sounds so ironical, that you use it on the FE forum.
A team of Texas A&M Aggies are planning a sun landing to land on the sun and explore the sun.geckothegeek, and why are they gonna plan to do this at night, is it because the sun "changes it's mode" and becomes darker-orange, less bright, less hot and visible, when looking at the sky at sunset (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXUDaLT9kCI)? My argument/arguments might sound stupid, but consider it/them.
Just to be safe they plan to do this at night or during a total eclipse.
Quotewhy we had to listen to every news channel in the nation warn usStinkyOne, be aware(=beware) that usually news channels are just brainwashing us, and the human workers at news companies are even more heavily brainwashed and tricked than we are.
StinkyOne, i'm personally sungazing uninterruptedly literally everyday for hour and a half with blinking. And still nothing happened to me, and i don't want anything happening to me.
If i was blind, i wouldn't be here posting, i would have some sort of a long depression.
Why are you so afraid of looking at the sun with your bare eyes regularly?QuoteThere is no freaking conspiracy about the sun.I will never agree on that. I'm still researching both sun and moon. The conspiracy is that the sun is 80-100% artificial, not natural, technologically made plasma/hologram/complex system object(sun simulator) and it exists in multitudes(nibiru sightings (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nibiru%2C+short%2C+week)). Instead of a sun, there is a "sun system", that consists of multiple of suns sometimes interchanging one another and working at a variable/constant looping paths above different regions of earth.QuoteKids, Hmmm is either a troll or an idiot. Please do not take his/her words seriously.Rounder, i know that "kids" is just a locution, but it sounds so ironical, that you use it on the FE forum.
No, i'm sincere about beingablecapable of sungazing regularly for hours. It's not a problem for me.QuoteA team of Texas A&M Aggies are planning a sun landing to land on the sun and explore the sun.geckothegeek, and why are they gonna plan to do this at night, is it because the sun "changes it's mode" and becomes darker-orange, less bright, less hot and visible, when looking at the sky at sunset (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXUDaLT9kCI)? My argument/arguments might sound stupid, but consider it/them.
Just to be safe they plan to do this at night or during a total eclipse.
Spend a hundred dollars on a cheap solar telescope and see for yourself.$5 for a #14 or 15 welding lens and cheap compact binos will let you watch an eclipse, see sunspots, transits, etc. Add a cheap point and shoot camera and something to steady the binos and you can get pictures as well.The 2024 is supposed to be a total here in Austin. That will be awesomeEver watched one before? I drove about a hundred miles south to watch it in Oregon. Not having to go anywhere would be great. I do have some relatives in Austin... I might even consider flying down there.
Hmmm, I don't believe you stare at the Sun for an hour+ per day without blinking. I don't believe you can keep your eyes open for an hour without blinking regardless of what you're looking at. I can't tell if you're playing games with your comments, a weird, confused kid, or just plain "out there." The Sun doesn't change it's mode or become less hot. It doesn't change output by any appreciable amount and it never "goes out", so to speak. The sun is always up somewhere.Quotewhy we had to listen to every news channel in the nation warn usStinkyOne, be aware(=beware) that usually news channels are just brainwashing us, and the human workers at news companies are even more heavily brainwashed and tricked than we are.
StinkyOne, i'm personally sungazing uninterruptedly literally everyday for hour and a half with blinking. And still nothing happened to me, and i don't want anything happening to me.
If i was blind, i wouldn't be here posting, i would have some sort of a long depression.
Why are you so afraid of looking at the sun with your bare eyes regularly?QuoteThere is no freaking conspiracy about the sun.I will never agree on that. I'm still researching both sun and moon. The conspiracy is that the sun is 80-100% artificial, not natural, technologically made plasma/hologram/complex system object(sun simulator) and it exists in multitudes(nibiru sightings (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nibiru%2C+short%2C+week)). Instead of a sun, there is a "sun system", that consists of multiple of suns sometimes interchanging one another and working at a variable/constant looping paths above different regions of earth.QuoteKids, Hmmm is either a troll or an idiot. Please do not take his/her words seriously.Rounder, i know that "kids" is just a locution, but it sounds so ironical, that you use it on the FE forum.
No, i'm sincere about beingablecapable of sungazing regularly for hours. It's not a problem for me.QuoteA team of Texas A&M Aggies are planning a sun landing to land on the sun and explore the sun.geckothegeek, and why are they gonna plan to do this at night, is it because the sun "changes it's mode" and becomes darker-orange, less bright, less hot and visible, when looking at the sky at sunset (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXUDaLT9kCI)? My argument/arguments might sound stupid, but consider it/them.
Just to be safe they plan to do this at night or during a total eclipse.
Quotewhy we had to listen to every news channel in the nation warn usStinkyOne, be aware(=beware) that usually news channels are just brainwashing us, and the human workers at news companies are even more heavily brainwashed and tricked than we are.
StinkyOne, i'm personally sungazing uninterruptedly literally everyday for hour and a half with blinking. And still nothing happened to me, and i don't want anything happening to me.
If i was blind, i wouldn't be here posting, i would have some sort of a long depression.
Why are you so afraid of looking at the sun with your bare eyes regularly?QuoteThere is no freaking conspiracy about the sun.I will never agree on that. I'm still researching both sun and moon. The conspiracy is that the sun is 80-100% artificial, not natural, technologically made plasma/hologram/complex system object(sun simulator) and it exists in multitudes(nibiru sightings (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nibiru%2C+short%2C+week)). Instead of a sun, there is a "sun system", that consists of multiple of suns sometimes interchanging one another and working at a variable/constant looping paths above different regions of earth.QuoteKids, Hmmm is either a troll or an idiot. Please do not take his/her words seriously.Rounder, i know that "kids" is just a locution, but it sounds so ironical, that you use it on the FE forum.
No, i'm sincere about beingablecapable of sungazing regularly for hours. It's not a problem for me.QuoteA team of Texas A&M Aggies are planning a sun landing to land on the sun and explore the sun.geckothegeek, and why are they gonna plan to do this at night, is it because the sun "changes it's mode" and becomes darker-orange, less bright, less hot and visible, when looking at the sky at sunset (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXUDaLT9kCI)? My argument/arguments might sound stupid, but consider it/them. ;D ;D
Just to be safe they plan to do this at night or during a total eclipse.
If you practice sungazing regularly, the eclipseTrue, because you'll already be blind if you've been regularly looking at the sun, the eclipse would have no opportunity to do additional damage.won'tWILL do NOTHING to your vision
Kids, Hmmm is either a troll or an idiot. Please do not take his/her words seriously.
If you do sun gazing without a filter, you will probably see NOTHING afterwards.
Seriously :
Once again.:
Best place to do some sun gazing is at an observatory.
Some of them have special cameras with filters and with close-circuit tv's so you can see a large picture of the sun - eclipse or not - safely.
And maybe not to be taken so seriouly : ???
News Flash !
I read where a total eclipse will be visible in Texas in 2024.
A team of Texas A&M Aggies are planning a sun landing to land on the sun and explore the sun.
Just to be safe they plan to do this at night or during a total eclipse.
The 2024 is supposed to be a total here in Austin. That will be awesome
Quotewhy we had to listen to every news channel in the nation warn usStinkyOne, be aware(=beware) that usually news channels are just brainwashing us, and the human workers at news companies are even more heavily brainwashed and tricked than we are.
StinkyOne, i'm personally sungazing uninterruptedly literally everyday for hour and a half with blinking. And still nothing happened to me, and i don't want anything happening to me.
If i was blind, i wouldn't be here posting, i would have some sort of a long depression.
Why are you so afraid of looking at the sun with your bare eyes regularly?QuoteThere is no freaking conspiracy about the sun.I will never agree on that. I'm still researching both sun and moon. The conspiracy is that the sun is 80-100% artificial, not natural, technologically made plasma/hologram/complex system object(sun simulator) and it exists in multitudes(nibiru sightings (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nibiru%2C+short%2C+week)). Instead of a sun, there is a "sun system", that consists of multiple of suns sometimes interchanging one another and working at a variable/constant looping paths above different regions of earth.QuoteKids, Hmmm is either a troll or an idiot. Please do not take his/her words seriously.Rounder, i know that "kids" is just a locution, but it sounds so ironical, that you use it on the FE forum.
No, i'm sincere about beingablecapable of sungazing regularly for hours. It's not a problem for me.QuoteA team of Texas A&M Aggies are planning a sun landing to land on the sun and explore the sun.geckothegeek, and why are they gonna plan to do this at night, is it because the sun "changes it's mode" and becomes darker-orange, less bright, less hot and visible, when looking at the sky at sunset (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXUDaLT9kCI)? My argument/arguments might sound stupid, but consider it/them. ;D ;D
Just to be safe they plan to do this at night or during a total eclipse.
Hmmm-
It's just an old, old, old "Aggie Joke" that has been around for some time. ;D
My apologies to all concerned for same. ::)
Your arguments are lots less stupid than the joke. :)
Please don't take it seriously although I will admit it is a pretty seriously bad joke. :P
Humor gets a bit weird at times at College Station as I am sure TomInAustin (are you a T-Sipper ?) will agree. ::)
Nothing. The eclipse doesn't suddenly make it dangerous to look, it's always dangerous. What the eclipse does is make it tempting to look. Now that the eclipse is over, there's nothing to see and nobody is tempted to look. But you could, on any day of the year, safely look at the sun with eclipse glasses.This isn't just your usual kind of bring horribly wrong about everything. You're being wrong in ways that may potentially harm people if they listen to you. Luckily, your reputation here means it's unlikely anyone would take you seriously to begin with.
i'm personally sungazing uninterruptedly literally everyday for hour and a half with blinking. And still nothing happened to me, and i don't want anything happening to me.Liar, liar, eyeballs on fire.
I'm sure it's not, because I'm sure you're not actually doing it.QuoteKids, Hmmm is either a troll or an idiot. Please do not take his/her words seriously.Rounder, i know that "kids" is just a locution, but it sounds so ironical, that you use it on the FE forum.
No, i'm sincere about beingablecapable of sungazing regularly for hours. It's not a problem for me.
Nothing. The eclipse doesn't suddenly make it dangerous to look, it's always dangerous. What the eclipse does is make it tempting to look. Now that the eclipse is over, there's nothing to see and nobody is tempted to look. But you could, on any day of the year, safely look at the sun with eclipse glasses.This isn't just your usual kind of bring horribly wrong about everything. You're being wrong in ways that may potentially harm people if they listen to you.
During an eclipse, your eyes receive much less visible light than they otherwise would from the sun, so your pupils dilate. But you're still exposed to an unsafe level of UV, which now goes straight into your eye and onto the retina. That's why looking at the sun during the eclipse unprotected is particularly dangerous. Do not do it.
There is also the issue of timing. Your pupil dilates massively during a total eclipse, so once the sun becomes visible again, it smashes your wide-open retina with an immense barrage of photons.
http://www.physlink.com/education/askexperts/ae586.cfm
Read it again. I didn't say to look unprotected.You said "The eclipse doesn't suddenly make it dangerous to look, it's always dangerous." This is extremely wrong and extremely dangerous. Don't say it again, thanks.
No, you're wrong. Are you seriously going to disagree with the statement "it's always dangerous"?Read it again. I didn't say to look unprotected.You said "The eclipse doesn't suddenly make it dangerous to look, it's always dangerous." This is extremely wrong and extremely dangerous. Don't say it again, thanks.
No, you're wrong. Are you seriously going to disagree with the statement "it's always dangerous"?I'm going to do my best to protect the members of this forum from your extremely reckless allegation that "The eclipse doesn't suddenly make it dangerous to look". It does, in fact, make it much more dangerous to look. So much more dangerous that I can't help but suspect (especially now that you're defending this insanity) that you deliberately said otherwise in an attempt to cause harm.
He said the eclipse doesn't suddenly make it dangerous to look, it's always dangerous. That does not preclude the ability for the eclipse to make it more dangerous, it only precludes it NOT being dangerous when the eclipse isn't out. The eclipse making it more dangerous does not change the fact that it's always dangerous to look at the sun, nor does it change the fact the eclipse doesn't suddenly make it dangerous when it wasn't before. Those are the two points in the sentence. A) The sun isn't suddenly dangerous to look at just because there's an eclipse. Followed by the explanation B) The sun is always dangerous to look at. Nothing there makes it impossible or even really implies, that it can't be more dangerous to look during an eclipse.No, you're wrong. Are you seriously going to disagree with the statement "it's always dangerous"?I'm going to do my best to protect the members of this forum from your extremely reckless allegation that "The eclipse doesn't suddenly make it dangerous to look". It does, in fact, make it much more dangerous to look. So much more dangerous that I can't help but suspect (especially now that you're defending this insanity) that you deliberately said otherwise in an attempt to cause harm.
I'm going to do my best to protect the members of this forum from your extremely reckless allegation that "The eclipse doesn't suddenly make it dangerous to look". It does, in fact, make it much more dangerous to look.It doesn't, though. BECAUSE IT'S ALWAYS DANGEROUS ALREADY
That does not preclude the ability for the eclipse to make it more dangerous, it only precludes it NOT being dangerous when the eclipse isn't out.Rounder's statement of "The eclipse doesn't suddenly make it dangerous to look" does, in fact, directly contradict your defence. He did, openly and directly, state that the eclipse is no more dangerous than just looking at the sun on a normal day. That's an extremely dangerous thing to say if there's any risk of a random newcomer believing this known liar.
It doesn't, though. BECAUSE IT'S ALWAYS DANGEROUS ALREADYTouching a hot stove is mildly dangerous. You might get burnt. Jumping into a burning building is super dangerous. You might get burnt alive.
We are essentially arguing about "What is it about putting arsenic in tea that make arsenic so dangerous?" It's not about the tea: arsenic is always deadly! The tea just makes it easier to get the poison down. For our discussion, it's not about the eclipse: looking at the sun is always dangerous! The eclipse just makes it easier to forget that.No. My first post here has already detailed two main ways (and that wasn't a comprehensive list) in which looking at an eclipse is inherently more dangerous than looking at the sun. Your attempts at denying that this has happened, and a simple restatement of your original dangerous suggestion are extremely telling. If this was a case of you just being uneducated, you would have already accepted the knowledge I served you on a golden platter. But what you want is to spread your falsity. Appalling.
it's always dangerous...I certainly hope nobody did what (Jai_mav) suggest. I may argue and fight with you FE types, but that doesn't mean I actually bear you any ill will. I definitely wouldn't wish blindness on any of you.
If you practice sungazing regularly, the eclipse won't do nothing to your visionKids, Hmmm is either a troll or an idiot. Please do not take his/her words seriously.
What are you talking about, "harmful intent"? I clearly and repeatedly said it was dangerous to look at the eclipse unprotected. The fact that I don't agree with you about an eclipse being somehow super extra ultra dangerous, that's not the same as dismissing the very real danger.it's always dangerous...I certainly hope nobody did what (Jai_mav) suggest. I may argue and fight with you FE types, but that doesn't mean I actually bear you any ill will. I definitely wouldn't wish blindness on any of you.If you practice sungazing regularly, the eclipse won't do nothing to your visionKids, Hmmm is either a troll or an idiot. Please do not take his/her words seriously.
Tell you what, I'll make it plain in case somebody else misunderstood me as Pete has:Do not EVER, under ANY circumstances, look at the sun without the protection of an approved solar filter.
During an eclipse, not during an eclipse, during an ISS or Mercury or Venus transit, during high or low sunspot activity, during whatever else might be going on.
It will ALWAYS be dangerous, it will NEVER be safe, DON'T DO IT!
Got it Pete?
Quotewhy we had to listen to every news channel in the nation warn usStinkyOne, be aware(=beware) that usually news channels are just brainwashing us, and the human workers at news companies are even more heavily brainwashed and tricked than we are.
StinkyOne, i'm personally sungazing uninterruptedly literally everyday for hour and a half with blinking. And still nothing happened to me, and i don't want anything happening to me.
If i was blind, i wouldn't be here posting, i would have some sort of a long depression.
Why are you so afraid of looking at the sun with your bare eyes regularly?QuoteThere is no freaking conspiracy about the sun.I will never agree on that. I'm still researching both sun and moon. The conspiracy is that the sun is 80-100% artificial, not natural, technologically made plasma/hologram/complex system object(sun simulator) and it exists in multitudes(nibiru sightings (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nibiru%2C+short%2C+week)). Instead of a sun, there is a "sun system", that consists of multiple of suns sometimes interchanging one another and working at a variable/constant looping paths above different regions of earth.QuoteKids, Hmmm is either a troll or an idiot. Please do not take his/her words seriously.Rounder, i know that "kids" is just a locution, but it sounds so ironical, that you use it on the FE forum.
No, i'm sincere about beingablecapable of sungazing regularly for hours. It's not a problem for me.QuoteA team of Texas A&M Aggies are planning a sun landing to land on the sun and explore the sun.geckothegeek, and why are they gonna plan to do this at night, is it because the sun "changes it's mode" and becomes darker-orange, less bright, less hot and visible, when looking at the sky at sunset (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXUDaLT9kCI)? My argument/arguments might sound stupid, but consider it/them. ;D ;D
Just to be safe they plan to do this at night or during a total eclipse.
Hmmm-
It's just an old, old, old "Aggie Joke" that has been around for some time. ;D
My apologies to all concerned for same. ::)
Your arguments are lots less stupid than the joke. :)
Please don't take it seriously although I will admit it is a pretty seriously bad joke. :P
Humor gets a bit weird at times at College Station as I am sure TomInAustin (are you a T-Sipper ?) will agree. ::)
Tsip here.
Do not EVER, under ANY circumstances, look at the sun without the protection of an approved solar filter.Thanks, that will do. Not quite an apology but at least hopefully any potential damage is undone.
During an eclipse, not during an eclipse, during an ISS or Mercury or Venus transit, during high or low sunspot activity, during whatever else might be going on.
It will ALWAYS be dangerous, it will NEVER be safe, DON'T DO IT!
Quotewhy we had to listen to every news channel in the nation warn usStinkyOne, be aware(=beware) that usually news channels are just brainwashing us, and the human workers at news companies are even more heavily brainwashed and tricked than we are.
StinkyOne, i'm personally sungazing uninterruptedly literally everyday for hour and a half with blinking. And still nothing happened to me, and i don't want anything happening to me.
If i was blind, i wouldn't be here posting, i would have some sort of a long depression.
Why are you so afraid of looking at the sun with your bare eyes regularly?QuoteThere is no freaking conspiracy about the sun.I will never agree on that. I'm still researching both sun and moon. The conspiracy is that the sun is 80-100% artificial, not natural, technologically made plasma/hologram/complex system object(sun simulator) and it exists in multitudes(nibiru sightings (https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nibiru%2C+short%2C+week)). Instead of a sun, there is a "sun system", that consists of multiple of suns sometimes interchanging one another and working at a variable/constant looping paths above different regions of earth.QuoteKids, Hmmm is either a troll or an idiot. Please do not take his/her words seriously.Rounder, i know that "kids" is just a locution, but it sounds so ironical, that you use it on the FE forum.
No, i'm sincere about beingablecapable of sungazing regularly for hours. It's not a problem for me.QuoteA team of Texas A&M Aggies are planning a sun landing to land on the sun and explore the sun.geckothegeek, and why are they gonna plan to do this at night, is it because the sun "changes it's mode" and becomes darker-orange, less bright, less hot and visible, when looking at the sky at sunset (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXUDaLT9kCI)? My argument/arguments might sound stupid, but consider it/them. ;D ;D
Just to be safe they plan to do this at night or during a total eclipse.
Hmmm-
It's just an old, old, old "Aggie Joke" that has been around for some time. ;D
My apologies to all concerned for same. ::)
Your arguments are lots less stupid than the joke. :)
Please don't take it seriously although I will admit it is a pretty seriously bad joke. :P
Humor gets a bit weird at times at College Station as I am sure TomInAustin (are you a T-Sipper ?) will agree. ::)
Tsip here.
I just attended some Summer Term classes. Guess that makes me a "Former Student" here.
Similarly, it is absolutely vital that one avoid looking directly at the moon. In fact, excessive exposure to lunar radiation is known to cause irreparable internal organ damage.
You could also use #14 welding goggles. I guess NASA faked those, as well. Also, NASA doesn't make the glasses. They just say don't be stupid and stare at the sun, which apparently is something flat Earthers need reminded of.
As for what makes the solar eclipse different, nothing. It is still absolutely the same unless you are in totality, but that only lasts a couple minutes. The Sun is still every bit as bright in the parts that aren't blocked by the moon and will still damage your eyes. It was about 80% covered where I was and while it was a bit darker out, the sun was still overpowering to glance at.
You could also use #14 welding goggles. I guess NASA faked those, as well. Also, NASA doesn't make the glasses. They just say don't be stupid and stare at the sun, which apparently is something flat Earthers need reminded of.
As for what makes the solar eclipse different, nothing. It is still absolutely the same unless you are in totality, but that only lasts a couple minutes. The Sun is still every bit as bright in the parts that aren't blocked by the moon and will still damage your eyes. It was about 80% covered where I was and while it was a bit darker out, the sun was still overpowering to glance at.
The pupil can change from about 2mm to 8mm in diameter - giving a 16:1 variation in light input. Hence, if your pupil was FULLY opened during totality - then damage due to the first rays of sunlight would theoretically happen 16 times faster than if it was fully constricted and staring at an uneclipsed sun."16 times faster" would be true only if the amount of light energy in front of the pupil from the first rays of sunlight were equal to the light energy from an uneclipsed sun, which is clearly a preposterous assumption. Anything less than equal energy reduces the "16 times faster" claim. The damage rate would be equal if the light energy from an uneclipsed sun was exactly 16x the amount of light energy from those first and last rays of sunlight (from the Baily's Beads / Diamond Ring). I submit that 16x is still too low a multiplier from Baily's Bead energy to full sun energy, based on the fact that solar filters are required to reduce (http://www.mreclipse.com/Special/filters.html) incoming infrared by a factor of 37 (more than double the 16x figure) and incoming UV and visible light by a factor of 300 (more than eighteen times the 16x figure)!. Even if we assume some safety factor in those numbers, the naked sun must still be more than 16x as harmful to look at as Baily's Beads are, in which case Baily's Bead naked eye viewing cannot even reach the "just as dangerous" threshold, much less climb into "more dangerous" levels.
The pupil can change from about 2mm to 8mm in diameter - giving a 16:1 variation in light input. Hence, if your pupil was FULLY opened during totality - then damage due to the first rays of sunlight would theoretically happen 16 times faster than if it was fully constricted and staring at an uneclipsed sun."16 times faster" would be true only if the amount of light energy in front of the pupil from the first rays of sunlight were equal to the light energy from an uneclipsed sun, which is clearly a preposterous assumption.
You're thinking about the TOTAL energy entering the eye - and I'm talking about the energy hitting each tiny photo-sensitive cell on the retina.
You're thinking about the TOTAL energy entering the eye - and I'm talking about the energy hitting each tiny photo-sensitive cell on the retina.
That's a really good point, I hadn't thought of it that way.
I guess Pete was right and I was wrong, and it actually is more dangerous during the eclipse than not.
This is why I keep coming here, occasionally I'll learn something new!