I was in the path of totality and there were so many glasses available to everyone around its hard to believe this.
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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.
I had like 5 seconds of panic because there was a gray spot in my vision after I accidentally looked at a baileys bead completely unfiltered through my telescope the second the eclipse ended. Turns out I just had a smudge on my glasses :P
I definitely held on to the very last dazzle, maybe one dazzle more than I should have, and I had to get reading glasses within 8 months. But I also just hit 42 so I'm guessing it's that.
To my understanding, as you age, the lenses become less flexible and harder to focus, making it more difficult to see text up close. Retinal damage from the sun, on the other hand, would burn spots in your retina that would leave little blind spots that are uncorrectable by glasses.
You can rest assured you probably don't have significant damage from the eclipse, but instead, your body, like all of our bodies, is slowly deteriorating with the ever marching passage of time.
Have a nice weekend, stanger!
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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.
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human race = Muricans
ok
Plenty of stupid people everywhere.
Can confirm.
Humans do live in America, you are correct
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...
God bless the USA! ?
Mississippi: who's the stupid one now?
More like Americans never cease to amaze me
Can’t use Americans as a litmus for humanity
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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