Well will it? I was thinking about this today looking at the planes flying over us at the shoreham airshow. I can always remember my mum telling me that, and being petrified of doing it. So will it really do it or is it an old wives tale?
will looking at the sun through binoculars really blind you?
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the u.v sunlight from the sun will damage your eyes over a period of time , so its best to avoid looking directly at the sun unless your looking through u.v protected glasses.
Blind you!!! It'll burn a hole through the back of your head.
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Try taking a pair of binoculars out in the sun, focus to infinity, point at sun then hold a piece of paper at eyepiece where your eye would be, when the paper gets scorched then burst into flames there is your answer.
Wotan
Wotan
Never thought of that . I only got night viz. ones I use @ Devil`s Dyke and Ashdown Forest
Wotan beat me to it!
Thermo, did you lead a sheltered life as a young boy?
Did you never mess around with a magnifying glass? Trying to burn the wings off Daddy Long Legs? Give a butterfly extra markings? Light a fire?
Or are you a youngster constrained by the H&S zealots?
Thermo, did you lead a sheltered life as a young boy?
Did you never mess around with a magnifying glass? Trying to burn the wings off Daddy Long Legs? Give a butterfly extra markings? Light a fire?
Or are you a youngster constrained by the H&S zealots?
oh no burnt lotsof stuff with magnifying glasses....matches....lighters....two sticks
i just wondrede if it was really true and if it was an instant effect, never wanting to try it myself! never heard of it happening so i wondered if it was an old wives tale.
i just wondrede if it was really true and if it was an instant effect, never wanting to try it myself! never heard of it happening so i wondered if it was an old wives tale.
Bet he never played with calcium carbide or magnesium ribbon either.Wotan beat me to it!
Thermo, did you lead a sheltered life as a young boy?
Did you never mess around with a magnifying glass? Trying to burn the wings off Daddy Long Legs? Give a butterfly extra markings? Light a fire?
Or are you a youngster constrained by the H&S zealots?
Funny what your mum wont let you play withBet he never played with calcium carbide or magnesium ribbon either.
Mum never knew the half of it, we used to be able to buy some realitively dangerous chemicals, how we were not blinded or maimed, was more luck than judgment.Funny what your mum wont let you play withBet he never played with calcium carbide or magnesium ribbon either.
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