Julian Assange. Solar-eclipse-truther.

[yodermon]

5. Assange is a Russian agent and should probably be in jail. However, this is a stupid thing.

I and every one around me stared *directly* at the moon and the sun's corona for 2 full minutes yesterday during the period of totality and suffered no ill effects. As soon as the diamond ring appeared we all immediately looked away (“you look away when you see it ending”). We put our eclipse glasses back on if we wanted to look at it again.

Even at very high percentage of totality, even 99%, it is too bright to look at directly, and it instinctively feels too bright to do so (unless you're Trump though, apparently).

It was silly of him to label it a "hysteria" though, and the "company profits" boogeyman. I was very grateful to have the glasses and kudos to the companies who sold them.

I file this one under "meh".