FYI, STARING AT THE SUN DURING AN ECLIPSE CAN MAKE YOU GO BLIND!
This year, the continental US will have the first total eclipse in 100 years.
Astronomers worked hard on preparing the event by inventing glasses where an ordinary person can safely view an eclipse. Viewing the sun with the naked eye can burn your retina, which puts a black spot in the middle of your vision. The retina does NOT heal itself.
Do not bother to check the technicalities of your glasses. The evil fraudsters are copying the specifications and posting fake test results. The glasses should make the day look like the darkest night. The glasses should make the sun look like a clear full moon. If they do not do this, you got ripped off.
The amount of fraud regarding these glasses is totally out of control, because:
Too many people think that being rich proves that they are good and smart.
Too often being rich only proves that you were willing to do things like blind children in order to make money.
Normally, there are customs officers, consumer fraud inspectors, and consumer fraud advocates, who warn us about dangerous goods being sold, and actually sometimes stop the goods being sold. The new administration is both unorganized and true believers in a free market.
The government, who should be warning us about these shoddy fraudulent dangerous eclipse glasses, is busily fighting over who gets the corner office, who gets fired, and who may not get paid.
You can view the eclipse using the old school method my father taught me. Get a small deep box. Cut out the top of the box. Poke a hole in the middle of one side. Put the hole side towards the sun. A small bright dot will appear on the inside of the box, opposite the hole. Then you can watch the shadow of the moon go across the bright dot on the inside of the box. This is two experiments in one. (Look up camera obscura.)
ENJOY YOUR ECLIPSE!
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