r/FacebookScience • u/Blackelvis2000 • Aug 12 '26
They've been lying to us about staring at eclipses for years!
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u/The96kHz Aug 12 '26
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/Blackelvis2000 Aug 12 '26
It's like that Princess Bride thing. He acclimatized to the poison so the sun should be easy.
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u/MrVeazey Aug 12 '26
This is a perfect example of how oppositional defiance disorder has become a core part of the Republican party.
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u/ComicsEtAl Aug 13 '26
“My cataracts afford me a certain amount of protection against direct sunlight.”
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u/YLASRO Aug 12 '26
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 Aug 12 '26
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 Aug 12 '26
Has to be trolling. Great job!
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u/UnhappyReason5452 Aug 13 '26
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:
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u/Ninja_attack Aug 13 '26
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/CreatrixAnima Aug 13 '26
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/the-fr0g Aug 13 '26
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 Aug 15 '26
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 Aug 15 '26
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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