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Reply With QuoteYou know they make inexpensive mylar sunglasses for looking at the sun through for eclipses and such. You should find a pair if you like looking at the sun.
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- 11-05-2009 09:55 PM #1Expert LDer Affirmation! Achievements:
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The Sun
I know this is probably going to sound incredibly moronic and stonerish, but has anyone looked directly at the sun (behind a thin cloud so you can actually see its full form), and noticed that NOTHING else in nature or the man-made world looks as unbelievably, perfectly circular as the sun? Sure, you can manufacture a mathematically perfect circle, but it still doesn't compare, somehow. It's like you haven't seen a real circle until you've looked at the sun.
- 11-05-2009 10:04 PM #2Watches u n the IRC. Achievements:
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- 11-06-2009 07:17 AM #3Tech Admin
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Yea, I know what you are talking about man. Pretty dam round.
And yea, you can get tons of different ways to look at the sun. And a few of them are very cheap.
- 11-07-2009 07:09 AM #4
I've seen it through a weldor's helmet and through really thick fog.
Yeah, it's round alright.The Emperor Wears No Clothes: The book that everyone needs to read."If the words "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on."- Terence McKenna
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I like staring at the sun. Even without eye protection...
- 11-08-2009 08:02 AM #6Tech Admin
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Not so perfectly round now, is it?
- 11-08-2009 01:35 PM #7Expert LDer Affirmation! Achievements:
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Pictures never do the real sun justice.
When I google search "mylar sunglasses", all I get is sunglasses with speakers attached. That doesn't really have anything to do with looking at the sun better. I is confuzzled...
- 11-08-2009 02:19 PM #8"O" will suffice.
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I'd guess it has to do with the size of the sun.
Unless the sun has divets in it that are hundreds (maybe thousands) of miles long, it's going to appear perfect to us - as far as we are away from it."One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams."
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- 11-09-2009 10:12 AM #9Member
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Planets are really round too, but they're not as easy to see as the sun is.
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http://scientificsonline.com/product...cd2=1257858461
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have fun :p
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Not to mention that looking at the sun (which as I understand is very bright) going to give you an overexposed image. It's like it has its own natural Photoshop filter to smooth out all the edges. Originally Posted by Oneironaut
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