I was in the path of totality and there were so many glasses available to everyone around its hard to believe this.
Ofc my sun is a pussy…
Okay you had to pick the stupidest person on earth.
Bet you he googled it though. Bet you.
I don’t know “eyes” is a difficult word to spell.
This is a bit misleading, I would bet most of the searches where something like “How to watch the eclipse without getting your eyes hurt”. Notice that the search data started days before the eclipse.
Why does the data for eyes hurt start before the eclipse even happened?
People kept looking at the sun to check if it was eclipsing yet.
You gotta get familiar with what it normally looks like, otherwise you wont understand how different and special it looks when it eclipses
Surely it’s just the sum of searches during that period, just to cover the interval. 🤷♂️
People were practicing daily to build up an immunity.
Because in preparation for the eclipse, people were searching for ways to prevent hurting their eyes.
To be clear all, while funny this is a meme. For both medical reasons “eye pan isn’t a thing for this”, and Google own public search data availability. This isn’t real.
But it’s a good chuckle.
I mean if the president looks straight at an eclipse without any eye protection…
What was happening in Yuma back then, though.
smog. prob from wild fires.
Have you ever been to Yuma?
God bless the USA! ?
Can’t use Americans as a litmus for humanity
Mississippi: who’s the stupid one now?
More like Americans never cease to amaze me
Worth.
If you look at humans as dumb apes, you will never be amazed, except for the few times we do impressive and intelligent feats.
Also correlates roughly to people going “totality bro, absolutely life change. Totality. Wow. Totality.” In every conversation for an entire fucking month before never bringing it up again.
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I looked at it with no regret bc I’m just old enough to know some experiences are worth whatever happens bc of them, and just young enough to not be clutching my pearls about the state of my body.
It was gorgeous. The sky was cloudy, but a ring of clouds opened up around it lit up by a rainbow ring. I’ll never forget it even if I go blind bc of it. I was in the perfect spot.
I’m sure your grandkids will appreciate that when you tell them why you don’t know what they look like
No kids. Had a tubal litigation. Would never adopt.
I don’t have to prepare for, or be scared of, the future the same way ppl with kids do thankfully
I don’t buy it. The sun is dangerous because you don’t feel pain when it damages your retina. So if people actually googled it, they suffered from nocebo.
But looking at bright light still hurts your eyes. When I go from my dark bedroom to my bathroom with an Eastward facing window with the sun coming in full blast it hurts my eyes. Also nothing about the search says anything about retina damage specifically.
There’s a difference between immediate feedback and delayed, not to mention that pain doesn’t actually need existing neurons, it can fire solely on the CNS not receiving signals it was expecting like in phantom limb
Tldr meh, maybe
Go look at the sun and tell us if you get a headache
