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I wonder how many stared without protection, and how many were scammed with fake glasses.
I'm going to lean more towards fake glasses (benefit of the doubt and what not)
Fake products have been really popping off on Amazon for awhile now
Why would you give people the benefit of the doubt? We're stoopid.
Some are stupid, absolutely
But we can all easily be screwed over by fake products
Shit I got a fake SanDisk SD card a few years ago from Amazon, only found out after the return period because of how long it took to fill. Now I only buy storage from local electronics stores (when I can) and even then I test them.
It's not all Amazon's fault. Sometimes people buy a thing, then return it "unopened" because reasons, when, what they actually did, was remove the MacBook from the package and replaced it with a brick, then shipped it back to Amazon for a refund. Free MacBook.
Amazon restocks it because it was "unopened" and ships a fucking brick in a MacBook box to someone for thousands of dollars.
But yes, many, many, MANY, expensive products on Amazon are fake. Even not expensive ones too.
There is a lot of red team country there.
I also noticed after using them with my actual glasses, that it warns not to use them with other optical devices
I think that’s just because wearing them over regular glasses creates a bigass gap. I tried it for a second this time around before thinking better of it.
Well, you could put the glasses over the eclipse thingers.... But that would just focus the light right into the eclipse lenses and probably would make them not work so well. IDK.
I'm just some guy. Not like I work with optics for a living.
My only complaint was that, during totality (I was in the path), we couldn't see anything through the eclipse thingers. That's the part I wanted to see, and.... Nothing. Do I need two sets of these? One for totality, and one for the rest of the damn time?
You take off the glasses during totality. Only during totality is it safe to look.
I just fact checked this and apparently you're right.
https://news.utexas.edu/2024/04/08/25-questions-and-answers-about-the-great-north-american-eclipse/#:~:text=It's%20perfectly%20safe%20to%20look,bright%20as%20a%20full%20Moon.
And https://science.nasa.gov/eclipses/future-eclipses/eclipse-2024/safety/
"You can view the eclipse directly without proper eye protection only when the Moon completely obscures the Sun’s bright face – during the brief and spectacular period known as totality. (You’ll know it’s safe when you can no longer see any part of the Sun through eclipse glasses or a solar viewer.)"
Probably not many, the glasses are so cheap to make and so easy to tell if they aren't right.
Don't underestimate the stupidity of man.