Who peeked?

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Admit it who peeked, can't of just been me 🤣🤣🤣

It was a lovely night last night & the sun stayed too bright to look at at any point.

If you didn't have glasses you wouldn't have known that anything was happening I don't think.

Perhaps that's why some people were underwhelmed?

I thought it was fabulous!

BBC

"After the previous total eclipse of the sun that was visible in the UK in 1999, around 70 people were left with damaged sight.

"Many of them had spent less than a minute looking at the spectacle, without realising they were harming their eyes."

She started a thread about looking at the eclipse punctuated with many laughing emojis. I don't think she's all there.

It’s not that deep. Lots of people have said they looked.

Considering all the information and publicity about this, I can only conclude the idiots who peeked belonged to the “ it won’t happen to me club!”

No, because I value my eyesight

Yes, this is what I mean. It was 70 people, 28 of which looked for less than a minute (which is quite a long time).

Exactly. They seem to think they are daring rebels rather than ignorant idiots

Good luck to you

Less than a minute is inclusive of 1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds... It includes seconds 1 to 59

Actually less than that, milliseconds too, but I don't think some of you 'peekers' are quite ready for that level

Of course it technically does.
But use a bit of logic here. Most of the cases involved more than a minute, and I don't think there's any doubt that risk is correlated to length of exposure.

So yes it is theoretically possible the all 28 people who viewed it for less than a minute, got damaged from one second of viewing or less, then nothing for the other 59 seconds, and then all the other injuries take place at more than the minute mark. But surely you realise that makes no sense

Out of curiosity, for those of us who peaked, should we have stared at it for a minute instead? Is the risk the same?

Excuse me. I would rather be bad at English then be nasty. Mumsnet is for everyone people who english isn't their first language. People like me who missed a lot of education due to disability, people with dyslexia. Maybe be a little bit mindful that not everyone had the same life and upbringing as you and check your privelage.

Presumably those 70 people had immediate issues for the numbers to be attributed to watching the eclipse. What won't be known is how it contributed in those that went on to develop sight loss due to macula degeneration,
of which sun damage is a big factor.

Protect your peepers peeps, wear decent sunglasses when in the sun going forward. 😎

Yes. Kept wondering if I’d wake up blind. Then discovered DS no2 used to do dares with his friend to see who could stare at the sun the longest 🙄. Thankfully he isn’t blind either but honestly there are some things you don’t want to know 🤦🏽‍♀️.

I'd respond but I can't read your comment as im blind from looking at the sun for 2 seconds 👩‍🦯

If you missed a lot of your education then surely it’s even more important to listen to official advice rather than think you know better? You’ve already experienced the issues of disability too

I peeked through the trees.

Did anyone notice that the sun was glorious afterwards, real sunburst. Just like in the telly tubbys!

I did listen thats why I didn't stare at it

My eyes are fine today! Someone will be along to tell me that doesn’t mean anything but I’m relieved lol

Never underestimate the predictability of stupid.

Hmmm... An ellipsis is just three dots. Is incorrect punctuation also an indicator of something?

The only time anyone coukd have looked was during totality, which we didn’t have and were never going to have in the uk.
its a reminder how strong the sun is, that it can be 90% covered and still be hot and bright. ( the moon is far away, not like clouds which are only hundreds of feet away)
And yes, with the specs you could see everything.

We put together 6 pairs of sunglasses. We peeked quickly through that. They were so dark we could see anything else through them 😆.

Photo through glasses and a meteor