By VocalizedBoar - 20/05/2012 23:35 - United States - Albuquerque

Today, there is an annual solar eclipse. As I was buying the last pair of solar glasses to watch the eclipse with, some jerk snatched them out of my hands and bolted off with them. I now have to make the decision between watching the eclipse and not going blind. FML
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VocalizedBoar 6

No joke, all solar eclipse glasses were sold out. Even all the welding goggles were sold out at the hardware stores.

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I watched the eclipse without glasses, and I don't think I'm blind.. All it gave me was sun spots for a bit..

l_alice_l 0

Just for the record, there are other ways to watch a solar eclpse. They aren't as safe though, since they don't really block UV rays. One of them is to watch through an analog movie film. But considering most people don't just carry those around, you can just improvise a filter. You'll only need some glass (as uncurved as possible, if you have a glass bottle just break it and use one of the bigger shards) and something that burns(matches, candles, lighter, anything really). You just need to "burn" the glass a bit so it becomes smoky. Now look through it. Voilá! You can now watch the eclipse :).

Just use a welding helmet if u have one they are the same thing

it was too cloudy out where i live :( and it was the first time in a loooong time where we got one.

I feel for you that your life is that vacuous, that you would consider possibly going blind an option.

MamaBear1488 0

You deserve it for trying to use a non-existent word like "annular".

Piece of paper, reading glasses. Use the reading glasses to reflect it on the paper.

I'd pull out my camera/camera phone and watch that screen

enahom 4

If it's annual just skip one yearr