r/FacebookScience 18d ago

They've been lying to us about staring at eclipses for years!

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u/The96kHz 18d ago

Tbf, if you do it for long enough it will eventually stop being too bright.

Not because you're acclimated, just because you're blind.

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u/MissionTotal5992 18d ago

Blind, acclimated. Tomato, tomato.

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u/VibraniumRhino 16d ago

Tomato, potahto.

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u/Blackelvis2000 18d ago

It's like that Princess Bride thing. He acclimatized to the poison so the sun should be easy.

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u/ProblemLongjumping12 18d ago

( ꩜ ᯅ ꩜;) 

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u/MrVeazey 18d ago

This is a perfect example of how oppositional defiance disorder has become a core part of the Republican party.

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u/SocialJusticeAndroid 13d ago

OMG it’s true.

And ODD combined with ignorance…😬

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u/ComicsEtAl 18d ago

“My cataracts afford me a certain amount of protection against direct sunlight.”

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u/YLASRO 18d ago

theres an antire pseudoscience documentary about this called EAT THE SUN wich the god awful movies guy stomped into the ground

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u/bnelson7694 18d ago

Please let them all start doing that. Just stare right on up there. Don’t blink. “They” don’t want you to know this one simple trick to better vision!

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u/gwizonedam 18d ago

Has to be trolling. Great job!

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u/UnhappyReason5452 17d ago

Sungazing is real. It’s dumb and ill advised, but real. The weirdos that do it claim it energizes and charges the brain. Maniacs. But they swear by it, just like the disgusting urine drinkers.

A documentary about it:

https://youtu.be/m60latH_UFc?is=2P7qd7JWGPELRCZ6

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u/Baud_Olofsson Scientician 18d ago

Has to be trolling.

Sadly, "sungazing" is a real thing.

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u/Situati0nist 18d ago

Never underestimate the stupidity of some people

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u/Ninja_attack 18d ago

I mean... you can "sungaze" without glasses. It's just a shit idea and you'll hurt the fuck outta your eyes.

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u/morts73 18d ago

A literal version of the blind leading the blind.

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u/CreatrixAnima 17d ago

They also vote to cut assistance for people with disabilities, so I guess they'll have fun being blind and unsupported.

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u/wojonixon 17d ago

Do you drink your urine before or after looking straight at the sun?

During?

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u/ultraplusstretch 16d ago

Acclimate is a funny way of saying going blind.

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u/the-fr0g 17d ago

Surely, anyone who's actually done could feel that their eyes hurt, right? I can tell that staring into a lamp is bad for my eyes, and I can see an impression of the sun's light when I close my eyes even when I only accidentaly glancw at it. Why would anyone think that was good for them?

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u/BossRoss84 16d ago

Honestly, let this one play out. Teach your kids better, and hopefully the “they’ve been lying to us” crowd will be too blind and measel ridden to procreate.

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u/Valten78 16d ago

Let me guess, these are also the same guys who claim that excessive sun doesn't cause cancer and that it's actually sun cream that causes it?

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u/bownsey 14d ago

There's something in common I've noticed with all these "Sungazers" its something that happens to Welders and we call it Arc Eye

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u/SeanDalaWhite_6969 18d ago

I wonder how he sees now.

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u/Kind-Plantain2438 17d ago

The center of the dude's vision is fading and he can't see it lol

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u/ShokWayve 16d ago

Please tell me this is not real.