Serious question
2006-07-05 09:33:43 · 17 answers · asked by BarbieQ 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Ok, but what exactely would it do to the eyes?
2006-07-05 09:38:27 · update #1
Yes it is very harmful. The intensity of the light will burn your eye's retina and you will go irreversibly blind.
2006-07-05 09:38:16 · answer #1 · answered by Lumas 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
OMG.... not because of the intense brightness...no... more due to the fact the that the Ultraviolet Rays will burn your retina and damage the rods in your eyes. UV.. the same thing that gives you a sunburn. Radiation in a way... That is what will make you permanently blind if you stare long enough. Stare at it some and you will notice it.
I know someone who stared at it as a child out of defiance to their mother who said "don't stare at the sun" ....well.. they have no night vision at all. I can see out in the dark real well... it is pitch black to them.
Look at the sun through a telescope and you are DEFINATELY BLIND IN A HURRY.
2006-07-05 10:34:05 · answer #2 · answered by HiketheWild09 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Staring into the sun will burn your retinas to a crisp. you need your retinas to be able to see. So if you stare into the sun for a long time you will go blind by doing damage to your eyes that cant be fixed
2006-07-05 09:47:21 · answer #3 · answered by Gobyknows 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Isaac Newton did an experiment to this effect - he stared at the sun for as long as he could without blinking to see what would happen.
The result was that he went blind for 3 days.
Hard to imagine that someone with such genius would consider something so daft!
2006-07-05 09:38:00 · answer #4 · answered by Macaroni 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The UV rays from the sun will literally burn your eyes, not quite like a red hot poker but damned close.
The moon's fine, it doesn't reflect enough light to cause damage.
2006-07-05 09:37:33 · answer #5 · answered by Archangel 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
staring on the moon isn't undesirable on your eyes. you're precise, the mood isn't a source of sunshine yet reflects gentle from the daylight. in case you do stare on the daylight, on the different hand, you could and would have risky consequences on your eyes. the gentle rays from the daylight are very helpful and reason a burn on your retina. desire this facilitates. God bless ya:)
2016-11-05 22:44:40 · answer #6 · answered by kennebeck 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
Like when frying ants with a magnifying glass, the lens in your eye is focusing the light on the sensory nerves, or Rods and Cones of you eye. And like those ants your rods and cones can burn up and die. When that happen you lose the ability to see.
2006-07-05 09:38:23 · answer #7 · answered by boter_99 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would severely damage your eyes.
It is human reflex to look away, but if you managed more than 20 seconds of direct staring, you would at least need glasses.
2006-07-05 09:39:55 · answer #8 · answered by lecarz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is, due to the harmful radiation rays that the sun emmits.
2006-07-05 09:37:59 · answer #9 · answered by C.C. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sun can damage your eyes. Wanna be blind?
2006-07-05 09:38:24 · answer #10 · answered by Babz M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋