[plug] [OT] The sun

[Richard Meyer]

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                      "shayne oneill"                                                                                                
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>Your not wrong.. Half-3/4 hour ago, had a brief 'look' got blasted by
glare
>and then used 3 layers of old sunnies to look...
>Verry cool.. But 3/4hour later, still got a splitting headache.

>That's a freeeaking bright sun out there.

>Suggestion.. stand near eaves and edge sideways looking up so you dont see
>the sun, just the surrounding clouds. You'll see
>the halo and you wont have welders flash!

>But damn Nature is a majestic old lady sometimes!

>Shayne.

Well, even if you do sue me for not warning that looking into the sun can
be contra-beneficial to your eyesight *eg*, you'll not make much. I arrived
here 6 months ago with nothing, and I've still got 95% of it. Any
restitution will take me back to 100%. ;)

BTW on eclipse days, don't "learned" people spring out from the woodwork
and warn everyone not to look at the sun? I know that they do in the armpit
of the 3rd world.

But I gotta agree - pretty spectacular. Makes me think of "the end of the
world as we know it" (TM). Also what ARE those Yanks dropping at
lancelin(sp)?

RichardM

>> At least that how the press release reads from the Eyeball Surgery
>While-U-Wait Association.
>>
>> Ya silly buggers :)
>
>> http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20010613
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>> asbestos = looking at sun :)
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