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Snake eyes on the Sun today


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In a related story...

Wal-Mart is poised to sue the sun for copyright infringement.

The sun has countered by threatening to "roll back" temperatures.

Democrats don't know how to react. Global warming is over, but it was cured by big business.

Many more developments to follow.

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I used to do that when I was a little kid. It was fun. It looked like there was a hole in the sky.

When I got older and had my eyes checked, they always score better than 20/20 :whoknows:

Looking directly at the Sun does damage your eyes but as you have no pain receptors in there it's hard to tell. In most cases your eyes do get better but I've read that after eclipses around 10% of people who look at the Sun have permanent damage.

Here are some nice pics of what the Sun does to your eyes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/specials/eclipse99/355066.stm

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It occurs to me that staring at the sun during an eclipse may be more harmful than staring at the sun during a non-eclipse. That's because, at least for me, I remember doing it when the sun was fairly low in the sky. As I remember, the sun wasn't setting, but it was somewhat low, sort of inviting me to look at it. An eclipse on the other hand could very well be at high noon, so there's very little atmosphere to filter out the damaging rays. That may be how I escaped harm.

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