Peanuts by Charles Schulz for August 03, 1953

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    Great Pumpkin  over 12 years ago

    One can burn holes in one’s retinas. This leads to permanent blind spots. ¡Noting like irreversible partial blindness! One should never look directly at the Sun.

    Because the UV-Light of the Sun causes cataracts after a few decades, one should wear sunglasses outside blocking 100% of UV-Light. As well as blocking 100% of UV-Light, sunglasses should also be polarized:

    Bouncing off of surfaces shifts the polarization of light. As a result, reflected glare has a pretty much horizontal polarization if it reflects off of an horizontal surface. Polarized sunglasses reduce glare by about 90%.

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    JCooper.Brooklin  about 12 years ago

    Thank you mr. science.However, I agree that Schultz didn’t know the risk he was taking in people copying this prank unknowingly causing serious eye damage.

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    NateWright  almost 12 years ago

    is the Great Pumpkin a doctor or something?

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    LadyBlanc  over 11 years ago

    People didn’t know about the possibility of retinal damage by looking at the sun in the 50s. A little persepctive, perhaps?

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    yow4zip Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Very clever, Charlie Brown.

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    SuperSunshine10  over 5 years ago

    This comic came out today!

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    FrostbiteFalls  8 months ago

    This was something people (presumably including Schulz) were woefully uninformed about back then.

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