Of course you can look directly at the totality, just like you can walk in the swiss alps during a blizzard with no shoes on. You technically have the ability to do it, it's just that you're most likely going to lose some bodily functions from it
I mean, even when looking directly on sun on a normal day, few second glances won't actually hurt your eyes, it takes like 20-30+ secs of constant looking to get a permanent damage. Some glances at the totality won't hurt you, injuries come from people staring the whole eclipse.
No, you can stare directly at the totality for minutes without issue. We had three minutes of totality and were looking straight at it.
Edit: If you think I’m wrong, take it up with NASA, who said this:
“During a total solar eclipse, viewers should take those protective measures before and after the Sun's visible disk is completely blocked. However, once it's completely blocked – called totality – viewers can look directly at the eclipse without any special eye protection.”
“During a total solar eclipse, viewers should take those protective measures before and after the Sun's visible disk is completely blocked. **However, once it's completely blocked – called totality – viewers can look directly at the eclipse without any special eye protection.**”
Is a quote from NASA good enough for you?
All I said was jury was still out. NASA is a group of scientists. What they suggest is based on current understanding. Let's see what it is in 40years. Good luck tho.
Dude, just give up and admit your fault. You were proven wrong. Continuing to double-down on your bullshit just makes you look more and more stubborn and retarded.
And I’m telling you that no, the jury is not still out. There have been 15 total eclipses in the US since *1869*. Two of the last three occurred during the Vietnam War.
I think it’s safe to say that **NASA** has collected enough data on the subject and wouldn’t risk millions of people being blinded.
To reiterate: **you are arguing with NASA**. Take the L and move on.
When you’re in 100% totality it is completely safe to look at. Only 100% even 99.9% the sun is too bright to see it and it will damage your eyes. Scroll down to the second bullet point below the picture of the girl with eclipse glasses on. https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/safety/
Keep in mind, it's perfectly safe to watch totality of an eclipse with your naked eye. An annular eclipse or any phase besides totality though is bad news bears. It's odd to me they're reflecting totality in this clip
I was wondering this myself and I was getting anxious leading up to the recent eclipse that I’d miss the totality in some way, but you 100% will just know. Everything is like mildly dim before totality, but it’s still obviously daytime. Then suddenly it’s dark like nighttime. Also, if you’re looking through solar-safe glasses, as soon as totality hits you’ll stop seeing anything through the glasses at all.
“It’s like the difference between night and day,” literally. It’s all gradual from 0% to 99.9% coverage, and then it’s a completely shift all at once.
Imagine a light that slowly dims to like 30% but then suddenly shuts off, its night and day difference no pun intended. Even a sliver of sun would completely overpower anything, stars, the corona, etc.
Here is an image of the eclipse shadow from space for reference, you can see the partial is a gradient of darkening but the actual shadow is a pretty sharp line to complete blackness:
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/moons-shadow-umbra-pictured-covering-79841404.jpg
Nope, your phone comes with built-in ionizing military grade space rays ready for the time when you watch a video of a solar eclipse. Thank Joe Biden, it's all his fault. This is Joe Biden's America
Having been with a Mexican woman for the past year I would like y'all to know they got all kinds of neat tricks for almost anything.
That being said, miel y ajo has to be the craziest sore throat medicine I've ever had lol it's actually not that bad
Honey and garlic by any chance? I don't speak any Spanish but do speak french, miel is literally french for honey and garlic is "ail", pronounced like the first syllable of the Spanish ajo. (At least I think it is, I could be getting the Spanish AJ sound wrong though, as I said, I do not speak Spanish)
Also, garlic and honey for coughs is done pretty internationally so it seems pretty likely
Romanian is like our distant cousin who had a different upbringing. I’m actually surprised that honey is so similar to the other pronunciations! I expected something different like ustuori. Thanks for sharing this.
Don't you just love it? My native tongue is spanish( mexican), English pretty much is too, and I took Latin classes in high school and I actually really enjoyed it. I love how similar words in the different languages can be
Yeah it is, I've just never seen it used here in the states. It is pretty tasty, though. *Almost* enough to consider it as something beyond a remedy. But like damn if I had known this before, I would've saved lots of money on cough syrup
Fermented garlic honey is *amazing* and super simple to make. I use it a lot in cooking but a spoonful taken straight is a great sore throat cure.
If anyone wants to try it: peel a whole load of garlic, place in a mason jar, add enough honey (raw is best) to at least fully cover the garlic, and put a lid on it. You’ll need to “burp” the jar a few times to let out the CO2 but once it stops bubbling you have perfectly preserved garlic honey that only tastes better as it ages. Kind of a roasted-garlic mellow sweetness after 6 months or so
You can look straight at the totality anyway. It's just everything before and after you need to worry about. I wonder if this would protect you at all during the early stages
It's to do with dilation of the pupils. When you look at the sun on a normal sunny day, while not good for you, your pupils will contract significantly against the bright light. So, while there's no "safe" amount of ultraviolet rays to take into your eye, your contracted pupils limits how much of that is directly hitting your retina, so the damage is at least somewhat mitigated.
During an eclipse, suddenly the ambient light is significantly lower, so your pupils are far more dilated. But the sun is still hammering down an abundance of UV rays, throughout the entirety of the eclipse. So when you look, you're doing so with wide open pupils and are allowing significantly *more* of those UV rays to enter the eye and literally burn your retina. It doesn't make much to cause permanent damage, and due to the lack of ambient light, you're not going to notice that this damage is being done until its too late.
But those people don’t look at the sun on a normal day because they know it hurts and they can only do it for a split second.
So how would it make sense to claim that this protective pain response just goes away on eclipse days?
I just don’t get this
UV light is invisible and doesn't cause a reflex but it still burns your eyes. Eclipse reduces all light equally. It reduces visible light below the reflex point but it does not reduce UV light below the eye burning point except at totality. Quickly glancing is not much more dangerous than doing so on any other day. Problem is there is not enough visible light to stop you from staring at it for 20 minutes, plus your eyes adapt to darkness at totality so they become more vulnerable.
Because they're trying to see what they're missing, quite honestly I've glanced several times during both of the recent eclipses in the US and I can't tell any difference in a 99% eclipsed sun and a 0% eclipsed sun
>Feel like this is another one of these overprotective things our government tells us.
I hope you don't mean the US government, which only a month or two ago got around to trying to pass rules to limit dangerous, harmful chemicals in drinking water. It's kinda mindblowing that you think this level of not giving any fucks is overprotective.
There are **certain** aspect of science and physic that are intuitive. If you didn't learn it directly from school or did not observed/experience firsthand, we learned things through our senses. Or maybe, as you were learning at school, the learning **clicked** with you easily and it just flowed in your head so well? Probably was quite intuitive. If it's a pattern, that's the easiest.
Sometimes, we develop new knowledge in our imagination itself based on past knowledge. We don't know the scientific terms, the math, the molecular properties, and stuff—but we just "know" things eventually. Intuition will mislead you, sometimes.
You must not be **complacent** (about rules) or too confident in what you know or feel, sometimes. Only *CERTAIN* aspect are intuitive, and science **do not** have to make sense or **click** for you. Science will not be intuitive for you, it just happens to be intuitive to learn at times.
I wish I had examples, but I don't know what we experiences we shared to relate. To not sound nonsensical.
Isn’t this extremely dangerous for your eyes still?
it’s like looking at reflected sunlight through the surface of a lake.
I am like 95% sure this is a great way to do long-term permanent damage to your eyes
If it is not when the sun is completely covered, then yeah it’s just about as bad as looking at it in your car window reflection or in the reflection of your phone screen, it’ll still burn your eyes lol
That's still somewhat polite, the real thing would be like: "quita tu pinche cabezota, que tanto me costó parirla" - move your fucking big head! That it was so hard for me to birth-it
Staring directly at it with your eyes during totality is perfectly fine, you don't have to look at it through a cup of water lmao, not staring at it is reserved for any moment before or after totality happens
Yup. My mom was telling me as well back when she was a young girl (she's in her 80s) they did it the same way in Ecuador. She also told me that pregnant women shouldn't look up at the sky as their kids will be born with dilating pupils? Old wives tale?
EDIT: changed eyes to pupils
… you can look at the eclipse in totality, you don’t need to stare at dog water to do it.
And when it’s not totality, no, this trick will not work. You will still damage your eyes just marginally less than looking directly at the sun
This is not a trick or a cool hack, it’s a fantastic way to burn your retinas
Noice. but someone eclipsed it at the end
Total eclipsed the total eclipse
TURN AROUND
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EVERY NOW AND THEN I FALL APART
21 years later and I still hear Dan Finnerty’s voice from covering that in Old School.
[TURNING INTO FRENCH FRIES](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmLk2vSXXtk)
Eclipseception
a total eclipse of the cup
2 celestial bods 1 cup
Toetal eclipse
Camera pans up, to show a human full moon.
I would misunderstand this and put the cups of water over my eyes.
Estúpido
Is that spanish for A stupido?
A stupido is as a stupido does
Bosque, ¿eres tú?
*eres
Laughed too hard at this
It's a stupid for stupidoo
Wow ez there my amigo
Lo siento
Gesundheit
You can actually look directly at the totality tho
Of course you can look directly at the totality, just like you can walk in the swiss alps during a blizzard with no shoes on. You technically have the ability to do it, it's just that you're most likely going to lose some bodily functions from it
I mean, even when looking directly on sun on a normal day, few second glances won't actually hurt your eyes, it takes like 20-30+ secs of constant looking to get a permanent damage. Some glances at the totality won't hurt you, injuries come from people staring the whole eclipse.
No, you can look strait at it if it’s during the totality with no problem. Once the sun starts creeping out you have to avert
How do insects do it? Birds? I've always wondered how do they get along without sun-glasses?
Somebody needs to design sunglasses that will fit them.
Ray - Bird
No, you can stare directly at the totality for minutes without issue. We had three minutes of totality and were looking straight at it. Edit: If you think I’m wrong, take it up with NASA, who said this: “During a total solar eclipse, viewers should take those protective measures before and after the Sun's visible disk is completely blocked. However, once it's completely blocked – called totality – viewers can look directly at the eclipse without any special eye protection.”
Jury still out bud...hit us up when you get the first cataract when you turn 40
“During a total solar eclipse, viewers should take those protective measures before and after the Sun's visible disk is completely blocked. **However, once it's completely blocked – called totality – viewers can look directly at the eclipse without any special eye protection.**” Is a quote from NASA good enough for you?
All I said was jury was still out. NASA is a group of scientists. What they suggest is based on current understanding. Let's see what it is in 40years. Good luck tho.
Do you think eclipses never happened until this year?
I'm saying there's a spike in cataracts after a 40 year period post eclipse events yes
Dude, just give up and admit your fault. You were proven wrong. Continuing to double-down on your bullshit just makes you look more and more stubborn and retarded.
And I’m telling you that no, the jury is not still out. There have been 15 total eclipses in the US since *1869*. Two of the last three occurred during the Vietnam War. I think it’s safe to say that **NASA** has collected enough data on the subject and wouldn’t risk millions of people being blinded. To reiterate: **you are arguing with NASA**. Take the L and move on.
I'm not arguing at all. I'm saying the jury is still out. Science fundamentally proves nothing. You're just betting on it.
It's literally not a problem during totality. lmao People took their Trump staring at the sun memes too far and didn't observe the total eclipse? Sad.
When you’re in 100% totality it is completely safe to look at. Only 100% even 99.9% the sun is too bright to see it and it will damage your eyes. Scroll down to the second bullet point below the picture of the girl with eclipse glasses on. https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/safety/
Many USA citizens would do the same. Still waiting for the 'magnifying glass' person to come forth and tell their story.
I thought it was a silver/metal doorknob so you aren't as stupid as I am
Jajajaja
lol
Omg I thought the same...glad I'm not alone
No mames wey
My dad showed me this when I was younger. He warned me, though, that prolonged watching could hurt my eyes. It made me color blind for like 4 hours.
Yeah, I don't think this actually does anything to make it safer. A lot of the light is still reflected and that includes the UV light.
Keep in mind, it's perfectly safe to watch totality of an eclipse with your naked eye. An annular eclipse or any phase besides totality though is bad news bears. It's odd to me they're reflecting totality in this clip
Is it that obvious the difference between 99.9% eclipse and totality? I wouldn't trust my self to know when it is safe.
I was wondering this myself and I was getting anxious leading up to the recent eclipse that I’d miss the totality in some way, but you 100% will just know. Everything is like mildly dim before totality, but it’s still obviously daytime. Then suddenly it’s dark like nighttime. Also, if you’re looking through solar-safe glasses, as soon as totality hits you’ll stop seeing anything through the glasses at all. “It’s like the difference between night and day,” literally. It’s all gradual from 0% to 99.9% coverage, and then it’s a completely shift all at once.
Imagine a light that slowly dims to like 30% but then suddenly shuts off, its night and day difference no pun intended. Even a sliver of sun would completely overpower anything, stars, the corona, etc. Here is an image of the eclipse shadow from space for reference, you can see the partial is a gradient of darkening but the actual shadow is a pretty sharp line to complete blackness: https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/moons-shadow-umbra-pictured-covering-79841404.jpg
Is it safe to watch a recording of it?
Your phone cannot emit light as bright as the sun, unless of course you check the time in the middle of the night
Nope, your phone comes with built-in ionizing military grade space rays ready for the time when you watch a video of a solar eclipse. Thank Joe Biden, it's all his fault. This is Joe Biden's America
Like others have said, your phone is nowhere near as bright, but it also can't produce UV light.
Your phone can do something like 1000 nits at best. The sun is something like 1.6 meganits
Having been with a Mexican woman for the past year I would like y'all to know they got all kinds of neat tricks for almost anything. That being said, miel y ajo has to be the craziest sore throat medicine I've ever had lol it's actually not that bad
Honey and garlic by any chance? I don't speak any Spanish but do speak french, miel is literally french for honey and garlic is "ail", pronounced like the first syllable of the Spanish ajo. (At least I think it is, I could be getting the Spanish AJ sound wrong though, as I said, I do not speak Spanish) Also, garlic and honey for coughs is done pretty internationally so it seems pretty likely
Yes, that's the correct translation. The overlap of Romance/Latin languages is so convenient.
Wait til you see Portuguese and Spanish :O
Exactly. He wrote miel y ajo but my brain automatically translated to mel e alho.
Brb gonna go check Romanian
miere si usturoi in Romanian, only one that really steps out of line
Romanian is like our distant cousin who had a different upbringing. I’m actually surprised that honey is so similar to the other pronunciations! I expected something different like ustuori. Thanks for sharing this.
I think Italian and French are more similar than some dialects of the same language are.
Don't you just love it? My native tongue is spanish( mexican), English pretty much is too, and I took Latin classes in high school and I actually really enjoyed it. I love how similar words in the different languages can be
Yeah it is, I've just never seen it used here in the states. It is pretty tasty, though. *Almost* enough to consider it as something beyond a remedy. But like damn if I had known this before, I would've saved lots of money on cough syrup
Fermented garlic honey is *amazing* and super simple to make. I use it a lot in cooking but a spoonful taken straight is a great sore throat cure. If anyone wants to try it: peel a whole load of garlic, place in a mason jar, add enough honey (raw is best) to at least fully cover the garlic, and put a lid on it. You’ll need to “burp” the jar a few times to let out the CO2 but once it stops bubbling you have perfectly preserved garlic honey that only tastes better as it ages. Kind of a roasted-garlic mellow sweetness after 6 months or so
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Ew
You can say it in English in this context without losing any cred
Nah it's not fun that way lol plus I need to write it more because my written grammar and spelling fuuuucking sucks lol
You can look straight at the totality anyway. It's just everything before and after you need to worry about. I wonder if this would protect you at all during the early stages
And you're completely missing out if you don't look at totality directly!
100%. It’s a surreal and magical experience.
Missed out on the opportunity to say “look at totality totally”
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It's to do with dilation of the pupils. When you look at the sun on a normal sunny day, while not good for you, your pupils will contract significantly against the bright light. So, while there's no "safe" amount of ultraviolet rays to take into your eye, your contracted pupils limits how much of that is directly hitting your retina, so the damage is at least somewhat mitigated. During an eclipse, suddenly the ambient light is significantly lower, so your pupils are far more dilated. But the sun is still hammering down an abundance of UV rays, throughout the entirety of the eclipse. So when you look, you're doing so with wide open pupils and are allowing significantly *more* of those UV rays to enter the eye and literally burn your retina. It doesn't make much to cause permanent damage, and due to the lack of ambient light, you're not going to notice that this damage is being done until its too late.
Believe it or not, some people dont have the foresight to tell that staring at the sun for 20 minutes unprotected will fuck your shit up.
But those people don’t look at the sun on a normal day because they know it hurts and they can only do it for a split second. So how would it make sense to claim that this protective pain response just goes away on eclipse days? I just don’t get this
UV light is invisible and doesn't cause a reflex but it still burns your eyes. Eclipse reduces all light equally. It reduces visible light below the reflex point but it does not reduce UV light below the eye burning point except at totality. Quickly glancing is not much more dangerous than doing so on any other day. Problem is there is not enough visible light to stop you from staring at it for 20 minutes, plus your eyes adapt to darkness at totality so they become more vulnerable.
Because they're trying to see what they're missing, quite honestly I've glanced several times during both of the recent eclipses in the US and I can't tell any difference in a 99% eclipsed sun and a 0% eclipsed sun
Please go look at an eclipse to prove our overprotective government wrong. Fight the power with your retinas.
>Feel like this is another one of these overprotective things our government tells us. I hope you don't mean the US government, which only a month or two ago got around to trying to pass rules to limit dangerous, harmful chemicals in drinking water. It's kinda mindblowing that you think this level of not giving any fucks is overprotective.
There are **certain** aspect of science and physic that are intuitive. If you didn't learn it directly from school or did not observed/experience firsthand, we learned things through our senses. Or maybe, as you were learning at school, the learning **clicked** with you easily and it just flowed in your head so well? Probably was quite intuitive. If it's a pattern, that's the easiest. Sometimes, we develop new knowledge in our imagination itself based on past knowledge. We don't know the scientific terms, the math, the molecular properties, and stuff—but we just "know" things eventually. Intuition will mislead you, sometimes. You must not be **complacent** (about rules) or too confident in what you know or feel, sometimes. Only *CERTAIN* aspect are intuitive, and science **do not** have to make sense or **click** for you. Science will not be intuitive for you, it just happens to be intuitive to learn at times. I wish I had examples, but I don't know what we experiences we shared to relate. To not sound nonsensical.
Magick water
Dammit I missed the eclipse again?!?
No, that was the Earthquake.
3 more days!
Isn’t this extremely dangerous for your eyes still? it’s like looking at reflected sunlight through the surface of a lake. I am like 95% sure this is a great way to do long-term permanent damage to your eyes
If it is not when the sun is completely covered, then yeah it’s just about as bad as looking at it in your car window reflection or in the reflection of your phone screen, it’ll still burn your eyes lol
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That's when they started filming. What if they were watching the whole thing waiting for totality before filming?
Speaking of eclipses
*Noice*! Thank you for sharing, OP! *TILS* :)
I'm pretty sure UV rays reflect in water and it's still dangerous no?
That’s what I was thinking.
I can hear her now right at the end saying "Aparta esa cabeza grande del camino!"
That's still somewhat polite, the real thing would be like: "quita tu pinche cabezota, que tanto me costó parirla" - move your fucking big head! That it was so hard for me to birth-it
Whats the song name?
Emile Mosseri - Jacob’s Prayer Actually I think it’s Jacob and the Stone by Emile Mosseri
Just went to listen, Jacob and the Stone is correct. Thank you.
It's probably Hans Zimmer.
That was before they started makin glasses n shit 🤣
Coulda used this a week ago.
That’s the part of the eclipse you can just look at
That’s nice but looking through a cd is better.
Mexican innovation for the win again
Holy crap I would have never thought of that.
If you drink the water, you fart light
delete the stupid emotional music. it's like a laugh track telling you when something is funny. I absolutely hate it.
This is dumb I'd rather just look
So cool to see how various cultures do this! Thank you so much for sharing! Could not have seen this without you being an amazing human.
What’s the song/music?
Per another commenter, Jacob and the Stone.
You guys have clear water? Just kidding, it's actually ingenieus way of watching the eclipse.
Wow
When there’s totality like that you can just look up at it
[Epic music plays] [Nike slide enters]
Why would you watch totality through water? You can just look at it with the naked eye.
"Showed us how" put water in a bowl?
Why this ultra dramatic music?
It's kinda like looking into the eyes of a basilisk
We used a pinhole in a piece of cardboard and projected onto the ground.
My grandmother taught us to watch it in the reflection of turmeric water during school days.
Chancla made me jump
Oh I love it, I forgot people did this.
How? pls eli5
They used to use a salad spinner?
Staring directly at it with your eyes during totality is perfectly fine, you don't have to look at it through a cup of water lmao, not staring at it is reserved for any moment before or after totality happens
That's some Aztec sorcery! (/s no racism or disrespect was intended)
Did she teach you how to observe an ecplise in the true mayan fashion next?
Yup. My mom was telling me as well back when she was a young girl (she's in her 80s) they did it the same way in Ecuador. She also told me that pregnant women shouldn't look up at the sky as their kids will be born with dilating pupils? Old wives tale? EDIT: changed eyes to pupils
What song?
#NOW u tell me? I'll be dead for the next one, thanks alot!
our parents teach us cool things like Vicks works wonders
I hear this song so much. What is the name of it?
So clever!
No mames Huey
Bruh it’s a full eclipse… turn around and literally just look at it. This is a massive wasted opportunity lol
I can tell it's a mexican mom by the chancla
When watching an eclipse in the “traditional fashion” in Mexico aren’t there also supposed to be some human sacrifices atop a temple or something?
What’s the point if this? You can look at a total eclipse, and when it’s not full the sun will reflect in the water and still damage your eyes.
So your mom is 50-60 yrs old?
Bro I just poke a hole in a piece of paper and hold it up in front of a wall
Even in the day? Or during daylight?
you planning to watch an eclipse at night?
it’ll be way easier to see the sun if its night time
Lunar eclipses, yes.
you can look straight at a lunar eclipse.
… you can look at the eclipse in totality, you don’t need to stare at dog water to do it. And when it’s not totality, no, this trick will not work. You will still damage your eyes just marginally less than looking directly at the sun This is not a trick or a cool hack, it’s a fantastic way to burn your retinas
You can also just.. look while it's in totality. lmao
nice you turned a 3D celestial marvel into a miniture jittery 2D reflection
You just chose violence today huh?
Still amazing
https://youtube.com/shorts/s0MxkbaCIfw?si=kEag9JRZtJ3xZcxK