Shit was fucking hilarious. Dude looks like he's really having a ball while his retinas are sizzling.

  • fuckhaha [any,none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Its funny but tbh so did I lol. You can look at the sun a little its fine. Shouldn't stare at it but theres loads of stuff science dorks tell you never to do or eat but you can a little no problem

    If looking at the sun for 5 seconds blinded you there'd be loads more blind people

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      4 years ago

      It won't instantly blind you (it takes some time to get them permanently damaged and they're gonna hurt so much before that happens that you won't be able to look at it for long enough probably) but it does damage which can manifest in many different ways later (for instance cataracts or various other conditions).

      Also, staring at eclipses is in practice even more dangerous, for various reasons (which mostly have to do with the fact that your brain is tricked by the lower brightness and doesn't properly adjust for the fact that it is still super dangerous). For instance, right around the totality phase, your eyes will adjust to the lower brightness so the pupils may get dilated, but if the moon moves a little bit, the sun will be revealed again, which may be sudden enough to damage your eyes. Think of how suddenly turning on the light after being asleep or in the dark hurts your eyes a bit, except now instead of a lamp it's the sun. So yeah, it's definitely a bad idea to look at eclipses with naked eyes, you're running a risk for absolutely no reason. Same as staring at the sun, you don't have to so why risk damage?

      Of course the danger of staring at the sun is sometimes overstated because we don't want children doing it but, again, one can just... Not look at it and not run any risk.

        • determinism [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It's complicated, you can either never eat raw egg or exclusively eat raw egg. This is because bacteria in your gut have to be bred to handle the raw yolk and any other materials entering that ecosystem will throw them off. When other foods are introduced to this environment, this is what causes the salmonella.

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          4 years ago

          Idk, raw eggs should be fine probably but I guess it depends on how much you trust how well they kept salmonella away from them and their treatment process. But raw eggs are gross so I guess no, you shouldn't, because you'd be gross too if you did that.

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      4 years ago

      Also I should mention that this is not just hypothetical, it's something that does happen to people, and especially after eclipses: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_retinopathy https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9805443/#:~:text=Abstract,after%20viewing%20a%20solar%20eclipse.&text=Results%3A%20Twenty-six%20eyes%20of,lesions%20consistent%20with%20solar%20retinopathy.
      https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://bjo.bmj.com/content/bjophthalmol/53/8/534.full.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiYuPbE8t3tAhWKCewKHckIALoQFjANegQIIBAB&usg=AOvVaw3A2I5CQ2_9ez_hjmJLvkNu&cshid=1608513413311

      Not especially common, but again, why risk it?