Why do you think it's always depicted wearing sunglasses? It has eyes, and its vision has been damaged from UVC exposure, hence the need for corrective lenses. Sunglasses are just glasses for the sun.
You're asking the platform full of autistic people why they aren't upset by not having to maintain eye contact with something? I think that's actually one of the many positive attributes of the sun.
Every once in a while it hides behind the other orb in the sky (they're the same size, which is weird), and you can stare at it then. E-clips, I think they are called.
It’s not that we’re not allowed to look at it, it’s that we have oodles of evidence on how severely damaged our vision becomes when we do look directly at it without sufficient protection, and anyone with two functional neurons to rub together isn’t going to be doing any looking unless they are wearing the appropriate vision protection.
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formergijoe@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 261d
slothrop@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 261d
Look! Corn!
TootSweet@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 261d
Wait. "Eye contact." Doesn't that imply that the sun has eyes?
ARE YOU FUCKING TELLING ME THE SUN HAS HAD EYES THIS WHOLE TIME?
UnGlasierteGurke@feddit.org · 19 pts · 261d
well, did you check it doesn't?
cron@feddit.org · 13 pts · 261d
Please don't use a telescope to check, otherwise you will have no eyes.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 261d
Depends on the telescope really
cron@feddit.org · 6 pts · 261d
Sure, there are some that are equipped with filters to prevent burning your eyes.
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 261d
There's a guy that I used to follow that has some absolutely amazing videos of the sun.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 261d
*eye
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 261d
Why do you think it's always depicted wearing sunglasses? It has eyes, and its vision has been damaged from UVC exposure, hence the need for corrective lenses. Sunglasses are just glasses for the sun.
blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 261d
Teletubbies were on to something
stupidcasey@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 261d
Of course it does most people are just too afraid to look.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 1 pts · 261d
the_q@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 261d
ToffeeIsForClosers@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 261d
It’s free and the cops can’t stop you, like rotating cows in your mind.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 261d
In addition: at some unknown, future time of its choosing, it will expand and consume the earth.
rekabis@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 261d
If there was an atmosphere to carry the sound, the sun would be screaming at us at just over 100db.
For reference, sounds at 85db can start causing hearing damage after only 8hrs of exposure.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 261d
You're asking the platform full of autistic people why they aren't upset by not having to maintain eye contact with something? I think that's actually one of the many positive attributes of the sun.
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 261d
As part of the normie brained section of Lemmy, I, too, do not wish to make eye contact with the sun.
slothrop@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 261d
Every once in a while it hides behind the other orb in the sky (they're the same size, which is weird), and you can stare at it then. E-clips, I think they are called.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 261d
We're running noclip most of the time
slothrop@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 261d
I heard that i-clips are shiny with old tech and 2x the price, so I want.
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 261d
Fuck those "Jesus clips". Every time you have to remove an e-clip it fucks off to the void.
vivi@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 261d
you still shouldn't stare at it. it's quite rude to do at an embarrassing moment like that :)
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 261d
The sun is shy please respect that.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 261d
You totally can, in the same way that you can drink bleach or mix pills and alcohol, you’re allowed to, it’s just a stupid thing to do.
rustyfish@piefed.world · 3 pts · 260d
That’s because the sun is a cognitohazard. You are not supposed to look at it, you discount D-class buffoon!
rekabis@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 261d
It’s not that we’re not allowed to look at it, it’s that we have oodles of evidence on how severely damaged our vision becomes when we do look directly at it without sufficient protection, and anyone with two functional neurons to rub together isn’t going to be doing any looking unless they are wearing the appropriate vision protection.
AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 261d
Who says you can't make eye contact with sun... You can \s