Hurts your eyes to look at the sun?

[Raggit]

Another thing you should never try is looking at the sun through a telescope.Ã,  Not that I've ever done that, but think about it.Ã,  Ã,  :o

Although, it's really cool to look at the sun through a welding mask, since they block most of the light.Ã, 

[Darth Mandarb]

Darth, your a moron...

I believe you meant, "Darth, you're a moron..."

I don't believe I own anything called 'a moron' and, even if I did, that would then be an incomplete sentence.

[Flippy_D]

My vision sucks. Put it this way, If I look over the top of my glasses now, the font is illegible.

/Bitter

[Domino]

Looking directly into the sun for a short period of time will damage the human eye. But if somebody wants to test this theory (and it won't be me). Just head outside on a bright sunny day and close one eye and stare at the sun with just one eye for five minutes, i mean hell, you've got two eyes, so you've always got one good eye left after the other burns out and goes blind.

If all of a sudden you can't see out of one eye anymore, then you know that the Sun can cause major damage to an eyeball.


If you only have one working eye, then don't try this. 

[Mr Jake]

the next day you must go out and test the other eye, just to be sure the test was fair

[shbaz]

Yes, it really does hurt my eyes to look at the sun. I can only force myself to look upon it for three seconds before my eyes feel tired and I have to look away.

Heh, I'm lucky I have 20/20 vision. I'm surprised that the years I've spent gazing at TV and computer screens haven't screwed up my sight yet.

You don't necessarily know you have 20/20 unless you've been tested.. have you?

My bias for close-range vision has caused noticable damage to my eyes, I barely passed my eye test when I tried to get my license. I've read books or played on the computer in nearly all of my free time (really) since I could read.

[Dart]

Shbaz: Yep, I had my yearly eye exam 6 months ago. I have 20/20.

[Blackthorne]

I used to stare at the sun all the time, and it never hurt.  Then I quit taking acid at noon, and I realized I wasn't staring at the sun, just the light bulb that hung, lonley from the ceiling of my crack-den-like room.

Bt

[Kweepa]

I tried googling for some info on those indians and the first hit said:
"Warriors would stare into the sun all day long. They would then suspend themselves from poles by running wooden skewers through their chest muscles."

Maybe it only improves your eyesight if you do the second bit.

[| Bass |]

maybe they think that by skewering themselves they become stronger...or they're just a bunch of crack-heads lol

[remixor]

Um, about exactly half the population has better than 20/20 vision.

20/20 means you can see at 20 feet what the average person can see at 20 feet.

20/20 means dead average [and it's only to this that most opticians test, sicne you don't need glasses if you're average or better].


There are aborigines in WA that have an average of 60/20 vision

Well, your point is clear, but technically half the population wouldn't have better than 20/20 vision.  What about all the people with exactly 20/20?  It's not really divided half on each side.

[Obi]

Perhaps this person who stares into the sun actually had laser eye surgery. Or he thought these lasers were the sun in some act of insanity. But it is quite hard to mix up lasers and the sun. Another interessting thing is if you look at the sun during a solar eclipse you get a black dot in your vision with bluring around it. Well it has happened to people, so the moral of the story is that the sun is more evil than you think...

[| Bass |]

Hey, I tried starring at the sun today...that stuff about you going blind in matter of seconds his crap.  the longer you stare at it, the more your eye focuses and the easier it is to keep looking at it..If you can't do it at first, then just blink rapidly.  All that happend, was I saw a "spot" for maybe twenty seconds afterward, otherwise its like staring at a dull flashlight-nothing

[Mr Jake]

NOONE said it makes you go blind in a matter of seconds, Im sorry but Id rather trust scientists and the what not than you and your dad's friend.

[Barbarian]

BassFisherman, aren't you formerly known as "00jon00", who is a known as one moderator put it:

"mister 00jon00 is just an attention-seeking child who could make up anything just to get some reactions from people."

(here's an example of one of "00jon00" / "BassFisherman" attention seeking posts):
http://www.agsforums.com/yabb/index.php?topic=15015.0 

  Really, I don't think I can trust or believe much of anything you post on these forums.
If you want to go stare at the sun and ruin your eyesight, fine, but please don't encourage others to do something so obviously stupid. If I told you some crazy story like "banging your head repeatedly on a wall for an hour each day stimulates the brain and makes your IQ go up", would you go do it?   

Hopefully most people here are would recognize that a suggestion such as "staring at the sun improves your eyesight" or "banging your head on a wall will improve your IQ", is foolish nonsense and would hopefully never do such a thing which may cause serious damage to thier health. But there may be a slim chance that someone browsing through the posts on these forums might think "Wow, I should try that! This guy says it works good for him.", in which case you would be contributing to enticing someone to injure themself.

Anyways, sorry, I didn't even want to really get involved much at all in such a nonsense post, but I guess I wanted to warn the readers to seriously think hard before actually doing some stupid crazy suggestion such as "go stare at the sun", and consider the source of the suggestion.

Best regards.

[Andail]

If your father's friend's eyesight got better while staring into the sun, that was purely coincidental.

The claim that all of his children successfully underwent the same treatment is plain nonsense, and if their father actually made them stare into the sun, he should lose custody of them.

I hope that nobody here is stupid enough to try this, lest they risk their vision

[c.leksutin]

If it were before 2 am here, I would make your brian explode from pure scientifc fact alone, but, since it's after  2 am, all I wish to say is:

GESTAPO 2X!!!!!