re: #167 Charles Johnson

By the way, there’s also nothing especially dangerous about looking directly at an eclipse, because it’s ALWAYS a bad idea to look directly at the sun, and that’s no different during an eclipse.

Yes, except during the short interval of totality. Not so harmful then. But typically, uninformed people would continue looking while the sun is slowly uncovered, and within seconds they’d have crescent-shaped burns on their retinas. Permanently.