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faz
10-05-2005, 02:19 PM
...gone blind by looking directly at the sun?
Ace42X
10-05-2005, 02:22 PM
...gone blind by looking directly at the sun?

Urm, that guy in the film Pi just became a super-genious and colour-blind. Does he count?
cosmo105
10-05-2005, 03:28 PM
newton stared at it for too long and had to stay indoors in a completely dark room for several days to get his sight back, but that's all i know.
Mike k
10-05-2005, 04:22 PM
not that i know of but I have gotten those spots . you know from starring at the sun to long.
Ace42X
10-05-2005, 04:27 PM
A chap I used to know from my school orchestra, called "Giles Clapham-Boon" once was in a fight, fell over and landed on his arse. He would've been fine, had the summer sun not been directly over-head. He had to wear dark glasses for a few days. Indoors. Even in the evening.
BeastieLips
10-05-2005, 04:28 PM
my buddy (when he was about 5 or 6) decided to not heed the warnings of teachers and parents and stared at the sun for like 5 minutes. he's not completely blind but he's damn close. i periodically test it when he's riding in my car. usually we have to be within about 10-15 feet of a street sign for him to be able to read it.

so don't look at the sun.
discopants
10-07-2005, 04:41 AM
When you just glimpse at the sun it does that weird strobing thing. Also, there was that soldier in the film The Four Feathers.
Anne Lauren
10-07-2005, 04:50 AM
If someone looks at it long enough, I'm sure they'd do damage to their sight...it would burn their retina.

Actually, my ex's mom just recently had major corrective eye surgery. She said that her sight was so bad that it was like looking through wax paper to see. Anyway, her doctor told her that a large part of it was due to her many years of playing tennis out in the sun all the time.
Vic Colfari
10-18-2005, 10:11 AM
Anyway, her doctor told her that a large part of it was due to her many years of playing tennis out in the sun all the time.

Tennis elbow is caused by either abrupt or subtle tearing of the muscle and tendon area around the outside of the elbow. Tennis elbow specifically involves the area where the muscles and tendons of the forearm attach to the outside bony area (called the epicondyle) of the elbow. Your doctor may call this condition lateral epicondylitis.