With a rare solar eclipse approaching and millions of people flocking to locations around the United States that are in or near the path of totality, some may not realize that the celestial event poses an extreme danger.
As noted by Karl Denninger at The Market Ticker, while the August 21st solar eclipse may be a once in a lifetime sight to see, the actual act of seeing it may cause serious damage to your eyesight:
You’ve probably seen various sites talking about safety issues. The issues are real, and what I’m sharing with you on this post is important. Read it, understand it, do not believe for one second that any of this can be trifled with and if you have young people around you make damn sure they understand all of this as well.
There will be thousands of people who will either damage or entirely lose their eyesight tomorrow and there is exactly zero that a doc in the ER or anywhere else will be able to do for you if you wind up screwing yourself by being ignorant, stupid or both.
Please do not be one of the people that have that happen.
Because the eyes do not have pain receptors, if you are looking at the eclipse you will not know that your eyes are literally burning.
There will be no forewarning that you are about to lose your eyesight. And there will be nothing a doctor can do to restore your vision once the damage has been done.
Sun glasses will not help.
Only a commercial grade visual-rated solar filter will safely protect the eyes and as reported earlier this week, even those have been counterfeited and sold at places like Amazon.com.
We urge our readers to speak with friends and family about this very serious threat to your vision, especially if you have young children.
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Only humans are stupid enough to stare at the sun. And some are actually worried about their pets. I don’t remember hearing in the past of any animals going blind from looking at the sun.
Remember to use your high powered rifle scope to stare at the eclipse with.
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A magnifying Glass works good too. Hold it up until you smell smoke.
yes, stare into your class IV laser sight. the big red dot will look the same anyhow.
Coincidence?
The total eclipse of the sun yesterday occurred on the first of the forty days leading up to the Day of Atonement on the Biblical calendar — the forty days set apart for prayer and repentance to prepare for the most holy day on the Jewish year.
The eclipse brings to mind – Joel 2:30-32.
And no one goes after the counterfeiter selling those bogus ones. The blinded people won’t be able to spot them. A perfect crime caused by suspended reality.
Not really. I bought several #14 welding lens from the local welding supply. They were only $0.80 each. #12 is the minimum to use.
Yes and its only Monday you can lose you eyesight. That eclipse will destroy planet earth. Everybody goes blind and not a single doctor or fake new reporter can change that. So everybody just shoot yourself to put yourselves out of misery cause you are all stupid. We are all doomed. Unless everybody on planet earth holds their hands up un the air to catch the sky from falling. Its the only way. Another BS article. SHTF Tabloid.
no wait there is another solution. just stare into the sky while it is raining and drown like a turkey??
I got stalked by a unseen Grizzly Bear through the underbrush even though I was making noise on the trail and had bear spray.
I ran down a stream to throw the Griz off my scent.
Then I had cold water in my boots in a place that gets down near freezing at night.
I had extra socks in the pack but fuck all good that does when you have cold water in the boots.
I ascended to a safe place and angled the boots upside down. After getting as much water out as I could I used a bandanna to repeatedly soak up and squeeze out as much moisture as I could.
I lost a knife running from the bear. Put it out of my mind. Gear can be replaced. Your ass cannot.
With two pair of wool socks I was able to continue up the mountain in comfort.
Remember that waterproof boots also wont let the water out!
Should I be afraid of a cop screaming at me after a confrontation with a Grizzly?
This is why a prepper an adventurer and a survivalist are three different things.
Eisen, that grizzly had to be DESPERATE to come after you, LOL!
Eisen, why would you use a banana? lol.
I’ve seen two black bears here on the east coast, in the last 2 1/2 years and both times, the bears did nothing. One time, the bear was at the top of this lady’s yard and I was at the bottom, and I just happened to look up and there he was!!! Just stareig at me! we stood staring at each other a few seconds and then he went on searching the ground for food, his nose gong back and forth. Then I noticed how broad and big the sucker was and decided– hmm.. I should leave! And gingerly walked to the other side of the road to another house. Half way up, I looked back and he had descended to about where I had been. Then I got scared and ran in this lady’s house. But a dog was in there and started barking and I ran back out. And the bear was gone!! No where around!
Black bears are not the same as grizzlies… Grizzlies, I heard, are bad medicine!! but here on the east coast, people see black bears all the time and most people have a certain affection for them because they (black bears) mostly mind their own business.
E,
That was an awesome experience! There is nothing like confronting a powerful animal in the wilds all alone and still be alive to tell it! You could have ended up being his ‘meal’! If you were off the trail he might have killed and eaten you right there or dragged you off to a more secluded place where you would have never been found or heard from again. PTL you are back home safe! Few on this site have ever expierienced what you experienced, let alone lived to tell their story! Wow! I can imagine how you felt when you first realized you were being stalked by a silent, giant killer! Did you pray?
Louisiana Eagle ?
wow, you must stink bad for a griz to follow you. do you shower often?
Gandhi, you may have a point! When I looked up and saw that black bear looking down at me, I had on boots that smelled real bad because they had gotten wet! Since then, I always shake baking powder in my shoes at night, just to be on the safe side.
(The second bear I saw, he was flying across the road, so fast, at first I thought I was seeing things! Just before he went over the mountain (high hill), he stopped for a second and all I saw was this huge black ball– HUGE!! AND THEN HE WAS GONE!! A guy came out and was throwing sticks at it. I said, “is he gone?” and the guy said, “Yeah, he’s down there in the bushes”. The neighbors saw it too and they all said it was around 300-350 lbs. A big one!
if it was unseen, how do you know a grizz followed you? might have been a raccoon because they like bad smelling things too?
CHILDREN ARE AFRAID OF THE DARK
BOOMERS ARE AFRAID OF THE LIGHT
ACCEPT RACE REALISM YOU CUCKS
Eisen, boomers aren’t afraid of shit, so f#$5 you!
EISEN IS AFRAID OF PEOPLE TAKING ABOUT SEXUAL PREFERENCE BECAUSE HE’S GAY!!!
EISEN IS AFRAID OF BLACK PEOPLE!!
EISEN IS AFRAID OF WOMEN!1
KREUTS IS AFRAID OF OLD PEOPLE, BLACK PEOPLE AND WOMEN! BUT HEY, NO ONE IS PERFECT…
Hopefully all the future felons stare at it . You know which ones I mean ! Would maybe help slow down all the attacks on whites maybe ! ?
I certainly AGREE with this article!!! Yesterday, I watched as some screwball took pictures of the eclipse with his cell phone, while wearing NO protection for his eyes!!
I hollered out to him that he should be wearing the little glasses recommended by NASA (I got some free at the library). I held them up for him to see and he said, “I know!” and continued to take more pictures with his cell phone… so in the coming years, months, days, when he begins to lose his eye sight, what will the nut say? “but I’ve been eating lots of carrotsQ!!”??! 🙁
This why I took the day off to be home to guide the kids through this ‘once in a lifetime’ celestial event. Don’t want them harming themselves.
My father was a radiologist, we had exposed x-ray film to look at the total eclipse in early 60’s. Also made a box with a pinhole to create an image for the kids to see without directly looking up.
Big event…. And a good opportunity for me to educate the kids about the artificial moon.
Cheers.
I remember as a little kid using the pin hole to see the eclipse. Very anti-climatic.
…”once in a lifetime”….This is my second eclipse both in my home area, how soon people forget events in the past.
I have dam near already lost my eyesight from some of the skankarage walking around in clothing they’ve long outgrown.
But then some of the Saluki girls came around and made me whole again…
Spandex causes more eye trouble that anything.
I saw a lady in yoga pants at the store the other day.
Problem is, she was about 5 foot 1 and 200 pounds.
I am truly sorry?
Why??? do they do that???
must not have a full length mirror at home
Did it fix your eyes?
She thinks modeling the water balloon look is sexy….reetchhhh…
Personally, I plan to loan out binoculars to all my liberal progressive friends.
A true socialist will think you gave them free binoculars
You MUST be desperate. You probably live in southern Illinois. Might I suggest you get a porn subscription…..
“Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.”
-Benjamin Franklin
Nobody believes in Darwin’s theory, but every day we evidence of it working.
Hi Faux Liberte,
I disagree about Wise men don’t need advice. They became wise men after listening to sensible advice.
Thank You.
Zheng Yong.
To help people see clearly during the eclipse, I am going to repost this comment several times (see what I did there). It really sums up the culture war we are witnessing.
“The historical mission of our world revolution is to rearrange a new culture of humanity to replace the previous social system. This conversion and re-organization of global society requires two essential steps: firstly, the destruction of the old established order, secondly, design and imposition of the new order. The first stage requires elimination of all frontier borders, nationhood and culture, public policy ethical barriers and social definitions, only then can the destroyed old system elements be replaced by the imposed system elements of our new order.
The first task of our world revolution is Destruction. All social strata and social formations created by traditional society must be annihilated, individual men and women must be uprooted from their ancestral environment, torn out of their native milieus, no tradition of any type shall be permitted to remain as sacrosanct, traditional social norms must only be viewed as a disease to be eradicated, the ruling dictum of the new order is; nothing is good so everything must be criticized and abolished, everything that was, must be gone.”
from: ‘The Spirit Of Militarism’, by Nahum Goldmann
Goldmann was the founder & president of the World Jewish Congress
A comment I just submitted went into moderation and all I did was copy and paste a comment from another person, from this site, because what he said deserved to be repeated. What’s up with that?
I stopped posting on this site last time because of censorship.
Moderation is not censorship… it is a necessity.
To give you an idea, our Akismet comment spam filter has blocked over 10,000 spam link comments just TODAY! Porn, fake health products, you name it…
If we didn’t have a moderation application running it would make having a conversation impossible.
Sometimes the system throws up false positives that are sent for admin moderation.
Apologies for the inconvenience.
Mac
The big tech companies are embarking on a mega censorship campaign against white people who dont want to be genocided.
Yes, we could, with difficulty “make up our own platforms” but that would be equivalent to building an echo chamber. We have to engage with the normies to increase our numbers. To do that we need to be on twitter facebook google etc.
Theres already way to many morons who believe anything not on the nightly news isnt credible. Yes, fucking morons actually believe this. Mostly baby boomer idiots.
Island of the lost was great,,,,
After reading that and examining Auckland on my computer, thats a rough spot, interesting
I’m a little over half way thru.
It is a good easy summer read.
Lots of interesting info. Such as how animals were released into the wild to be harvest later, or if ever.
Eisen, take your meds and go back to bed.
No conservative in his/her right mind should have a damn Facebook account.
Why would anyone wan’t to give Zuckerberg credibility? Don’t contribute to his cause.
Anonymous, good points about Zuckerberg and facebook. No social media for me ever. Zuckerberg is another member of that disgusting tribe.
Why would anyone give suckerberg and his ilk control of all their private information and narrative according to Facebook censorship, dozing, control of your personal life by manipulating and exposing you to your employers and exclusively to Antifa for your abuse, and his twisted political agenda, is amazing. That’s so stupid it’s akin to making the suicide vest for the terrorists to use on you.
Mac then have membership and login to view comments and post. Can’t have a conversation about your posted articles if it takes hours if not more to see a post, it’s like trying to carry on a current news conversation using letters sent through the US mail system.
Exactly..if they have already registered, quite auto moderating them. End of story.
Please forward the porn….research
Yes moderation is necessary because you can criticize J- E W S. That why some call the POS chews. So your comment gets posted right away.
Shit you know who is defending the indefensible given that reality lately has demonstrated yet again the artificially protected group from any comment and criticism is the same age old group responsible for the cultural Marxism destroying civil discourse and the USA. But some of the programmed biases are deeply rooted and hard for people to lose.
Justice… I got the moderation a couple of times and the comment never appeared out of that status, even a day later. I figure with Google censoring content for whatever reason is growing.
If its not to cloudy we will view through welding helmets. Its raining here at this moment. I never complain about any july or august rain. Its time to plant turnips ,wheat ,oats rape ,kale and any fall cool season grass & clover ect. Hunting deer over fall planted food plots is like shooting fish in a barrel. I hunt for the meat im not a sportsman. We till & plant long narrow strips down shooting lanes radiating out from our deer stands. Theres a painted marker every 100 yards. Its easy to catch turkeys. They come and get the grain at the deer feeders. So all you gotta do is glue corn to the trip pans on steel traps. or place soaked corn on fish hooks. You will also catch plenty of crows. Ive caught turkeys on fish hooks and removed the hook and domesticated them. You pinion the wing,s and they will stay inside a 4 ft fence. Cross them with domestic turkeys any you have a hardy easy to keep meat bird.
I wanted to get a jump on the eclipse and looked up. Now I cannot see.
My dog is typing for me.
I spent a couple of hours looking at youtube videos this morning on the eclipse. One that puzzled me was since the sun moves from east to west and the moon does also, how can the eclipse move from west to east. Some said Niburu will be revealed as a certainty, the eclipse a sign of biblical proportions, the Earth is a flat plane and the moon should cast a much bigger shadow on Earth by blocking the sun.
The movement of the shadow depends on the relative speeds of the sun and moon with each other. It’ll move one way or the other depending on which is apparently moving faster. An astronomer could probably explain it better with nifty animations etc.
Get a ball and a flashlight, and you can do an experiment to see the shadow movement.
We have been told a thousand times not to look at an eclipse. SO IF YOU LOOSE YOUR EYE SIGHT IT IS YOUR OWN DAMN FAULT!!!!!
the word is LOSE, not loose.
What word? Lose or Loose?
Sarge, I’ve never looked at an eclipse either and still won’t to this day. I’ll be busy with ‘drills’ tomorrow anyway. I can picture thousands and thousands of libturds all over the country going blind tomorrow because they don’t know any better.
I’m in my mid fifties, and I can tell you from experience. As kids, we used to have contests to see who could look at the sun the longest. It was only for a few seconds, but we never went blind.
Now mind you, the sun was NOT the same back then. It used to be a kind of “mellow yellow”, and not todays’ blindingly smaller and oh so much more WHITER.
I’m not saying that it’s ok to look at the eclipse without protection. We had one here in S.E Washington State, back in the seventies, and I can remember standing out in the football field with our Science Teacher, using cardboard cutouts with holes in them.
I plan on working outside just to take advantage of the coolness. Don’t have any interest on what is happening concerning the eclipse. Won’t look at it, don’t really care. Got things to do. If’n I get done early, might go fishing.
Actually, I was planning on doing a little mowing during part of the eclipse. It will be close to 87% total here, and that will make the temps go down some.
Eclipse can barely be seen here @ 0635hrs.
I have too many trees to the east. I’ll watch
on Internet.
“Because the eyes do not have pain receptors”
Nonsense dribble.
Ya, then no one would scream “OW MY EYES” when wearing night vision goggles and someone turns on bright lights.
Let a piece of sand get under your eyelid… see if your eyes have pain receptors or not.
M
After an accident, my doctor recommended I stay in the hospital with a morphine drip because the pain would increase over the following days. Luckily I was not blinded, but for several weeks the outcome was up in the air. Being pro-active, I contacted a college for blind people and started making arrangements. After the initial shock, I decided to get busy learning brail, walking with a stick, and training my dog. Luckily, I had a friend once who was extremely intelligent. He was blinded in an accident but lived alone without assistance, a very resourceful fellow and a great role model.
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M,
One of the most painful things I ever
experienced was getting my retinas photographed.
I used to work with high power lasers.
Pictures were required at the start of the job
and at the end to protect the company from lawsuits.
No burns to date, but Macular degeneration is
taking its toll.eg to much time spent with computers.
That’s a fair point M…….
Perhaps they mean the retina has no pain sensors?
“If I can’t unsee this, then neither can you.”
Actually, glazing at the sun is very beneficial for humans. You need to do it gradually over time, say start glazing sun in early morning or just before it sets for 10 seconds for the first, then increase the time to 15 seconds the second day, and so forth.
It’s called “sun gazing”. Check it out online!
David Chu:
Instinctively people are drawn to watching the sun rise and set, and at noon to shade one’s eyes from the harsh glare of the sun.
I’ve always enjoyed watching the changes in the sky during the day and the stars at night.
After reading up on sun gazing, I started doing sunrise gazing. But I’m not into day time gazing, unless it is with a suitable telescope.
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Ill be the guy with the flame miller welding hood
I’ll be the guy casting my rod on the banks of the river hopefully feeling that all too familiar tug. Be safe Nb!
Now that sounds like a plan! Way better than burning rods
i’ll be the gal watching to see if the chickens really do go to roost.
🙂
To everyone: as of this time I still can’t get to The Daily Stormer. Things just might get interesting soon. I’m on a lunch break from the drills. Screw the eclipse.
Hey everyone, I still can’t get through to The Daily Stormer. I don’t like the looks of this.
The daily stormer has lost a host and is offline. Apparently the jokes about the woman who got killed being too fat to dodge the dodge was too much and they where cut off.
Neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer is running out of options to stay online. There has been a public outcry against tech companies helping websites, such as The Daily Stormer. On August 18th, the team behind The Daily Stormer found a way to put the website back online. But now that NameCheap has taken down the website’s new domain name, it is back offline for most people.
If you want to host a controversial website, you need a server to host your website, a protection service against denial-of-service attacks and a domain name to make your site reachable.
While The Daily Stormer used to rely on DigitalOcean and DreamHost (at least until 2014) to run its server, both companies have stopped working with the website. DigitalOcean cited a violation of the company’s terms of service.
Next, (((they))) will scheme and find a way to remove Stormfront.org from the internet.
http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/
This works [so far] only with the TOR browser:
https://www.torproject.org/projects/torbrowser.html.en
good luck
To avoid blindness eat the colors of the rainbow in fruits and vegtables; stay slim and fit.
Obesity and diabetes causes loss of vision. Take supplements for vision. Eat foods that help vision like bilberries, a kind of blueberry. Cooked and raw tomatoes and carrots are good.
Always wear protective goggles when working with objects like wood that can splinter and pierce the eyes and damage them.
Anyone attending a rally should have clear safety goggles. The next best thing is a pair of sunglasses or prescription glasses.
_ how often is there a solar eclipse? Not often. But in our every day lives there are many threats to our vision.
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Pocket pool can lead to blindness.
“Stupid is what stupid does” Forest
SOLAR ECLIPSE WONT BE AFFECTING JACK SHIT.
Watch the banks, the economy, the cabalist bastards, the presidency, the EMP and ww3 card and your good to go. Signs in the heavens and earth my ass, yea right. The real sign will be coming later on, when planet X, with a tail of asteroids come in and start to bombard the earth. And asteroid i was told by my scientist friend is what broke apart Pangia, separated Austrialia, and Shrilanka, split the US from Africa, and literally caused a massive ICE age over 9,000 years ago, and that dinaosaurs were walking next to man up to that time and that it was the climate change and the oxygen levels that dropped killed of the dinosaurs, and those massive giant humans that stood from 12ft to 35ft tall, once the oxygen levels dropped, forcing the giant sons of bitches to go under ground and the rest of them on the surface died out from lack of high oxygen levels, forcing humans us, to downsize. A lot of them live in caves in Afganistan and over here in caves of the Grand Canyon, and a few of them exist in low numbers in the US. This is real guys. A lot of unbelievable shit is going on this planet folks, its all real. I get to hear some really serious shit.
The solar eclipse is all bullshit hype. No major event will follow, just don’t look directly at it. I will out in the field most of the day tomorrow soliciting Business, and could care less if the sun is blocked out temporarily. I have a rechargeable LED. Could give a rats ass. The scientist told me when i called him earlier that its just a eclipse. That the aliens who control that ship, the moon does that to use a scare tactic to make the populous believe that some bad is about to happen to use it to their advantage and it never works. Every where you look its shit about after that event, this and that will happen, yea right. What we need to focus on is what’s going on in the country will that cabal and the presidency, this is the real concern, and things like the civil war, etc and the fact that we are surfing the buttcrackofdoom at the present moment.
HCKS.
HCKS, I’m still at the BOL on drills til’ the 27th. Hope you got your BOL all ready to occupy when the time comes.
So…..Econolodge extended your reservation? Good blueberry muffins, huh?
New Article:
https://antoniusaquinas.com/2017/08/21/bitcoin-in-an-illusionary-age/
AA
Christ, how many idiots will burn out their eyes and become blind and then end up on the Gov’t dime, SSI, Disability, Medical Assistance, etc, etc. It just never seems to stop folks.
CC, if they’re stupid enough to go stare at the sun that’s their mistake. It’s not taxpayers’ responsibility to support the morons. No one is ever owed anything.
Help, help! We are ALL going to die…Not~
Eclipse. Do not forget to brush your teeth and make your bed on the day of the eclipse. Eclipse. This is vital to your safety. Eclipse. You will not know whether you have done it, in time, and then tragedy strikes. Eclipse.
More humorless advice, from someone who looks like my highschool principle:
“You have no pain receptors in your eyes.”
— Except, during sinus infections and when foreign objects are embedded. (Also, when reading bad warnings.) That feeling, when you turn on a bright light, in total darkness, or you look at the sun, glaring off a shiny object, is totally subtle, sneaks up on you, unawares.
“DURING totality it is both safe to look at or photograph the corona unfiltered and you should, as it’s really cool. There is no other way for you to see the sun’s corona”
— Before, or after, and you will go blind. Forever(!) So, get it just right.
In OP’s photo, the sun is a smooth, boring, gray ball. Fire does not even come off this thing, “you crazies.”
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/images/galleries/soho-300.jpg
https://www.infowars.com/nasa-unveils-plan-to-stop-yellowstone-supervolcano-eruption-theres-just-one-catch/
YOU CABALIST BASTARS NEVER CEASE TO AMAZE ME WITH YOU BULLSHIT LIES. DO YOU THINK WE THAT STUPID.
Trump is standing his ground so now your ready to go tip Yellowstone, to cause Nuclear fallout. Guys, check to see where the fucker placed all the nuclear plants over the years. They are all located in close proximity of that area, coincidence? isn’t it. THIS IS NO ACCIDENT. ITS COMMON SENSE, THIS IS TYPE OF SHIT THAT PULL.
Even Alex is on to this bullshit stunt.
https://www.infowars.com/nasa-unveils-plan-to-stop-yellowstone-supervolcano-eruption-theres-just-one-catch/
NASA PLANS TO STOP YELLOW STONE VOLCANO FROM ERUPTING, OR IS NASA ALONG WITH THE BANKING FAMILES WILL TRIGGER YELLOWSTONE TO CAUSE A MASSIVE NUCLEAR FALLOUT to use that ” the environment, the environmental fallout” remember what the scientist told me. This is what we need to pay attention to. War is failing, if they cant remove Trump, they plan to hit us with the environment, saying that Yellowstone trigger a grid collapse, so we have to declare martial law, that your wife, daughter and children must be taken into custody by the military for their safety. This what we at shtf need to pay attention to, not the moon blocking the sunlight.
HCKS.
This Great Eclipse is the Final Eclipse of the Great United States of Death, Disease and Destruction:
The tens of millions who have been killed by Yankees in the name of “freedom, democracy and libert”.
The hundreds of millions who have suffered and are suffering under the diseases created and deployed by Yankees such as AIDS and almost all modern neuro-systemic diseases such as MS, Parkinson’s, etc.
The millions of homes and infrastructures of so many nations destroyed by the Yankees, especially via their use of bombs and missiles.
Brave its ready, but limited funds is why its inoperable, I need a power plant, portable one, and the AC duct work completed. But its livable incase SHTF strikes at any moment. I would stay there for now, no telling what they have planned for your area. My rain collector, and two big water tanks are ready, with automatic water systems are working wonders with my water melon plants, and moringa trees. So my veges are doing good since I fenced it off from the deer. But its hot as hell and I wont be able to finish the work till the end of October.
HCKS.
Be careful, the Chinese sell fake toothpaste. You know they probably have a million fake glasses out there.
HCKS, let’s all hope nothing happens til’ after October but I’m not holding my breath on it.
That power outage drill takes place on Wed. Let’s hope nothing happens.
To he eclipse left behind a lot of brain dead, and they are all driving on the interstate.
You are a PLA communist Chinese soldier david chu. You are skating on thin ice on this site. Him be careful you might offend Mr chu. This asshole is a fucking chi-com.
HCKS.
The eclipse was 80% here on the central Florida gulf coast, barely noticed slightly dimmer light outside.