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    From JIMMY ANDERSON@1:116/18 to ROGER NELSON on Sun Apr 23 08:44:00 2017
    Roger Nelson wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

    They don't last long and one thing you should be mindful of -- NEVER
    look at them no matter how safe you think it is.

    Yeah - this one place is selling glasses to make it safe...

    http://www.eclipse2017.org/glasses_order.htm

    I wonder how safe they really are?



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  • From Roger Nelson@1:3828/7 to JIMMY ANDERSON on Sun Apr 23 12:17:58 2017
    On Sun Apr-23-2017 08:44, JIMMY ANDERSON (1:116/18) wrote to ROGER NELSON:

    Roger Nelson wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

    They don't last long and one thing you should be mindful of -- NEVER
    look at them no matter how safe you think it is.

    Yeah - this one place is selling glasses to make it safe...

    http://www.eclipse2017.org/glasses_order.htm

    I wonder how safe they really are?

    If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. When I was a child, we used to use film stock to take glimpses of an eclipse. I'm not even sure if that was safe. This is especially dangerous during a Solar eclipse.


    Regards,

    Roger
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