Re:Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D
by ISL on Monday February 25, 2019 @06:35PM
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Scientists, even the best ones, do dumb things all the time.
Source: Am experimental physicist; do dumb things. Sometimes my colleagues do too, even the best ones.
Re:Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D
by justin66 on Monday February 25, 2019 @07:34PM
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Los Alamos was replete with brilliant people doing dangerously stupid things.
Re:Sunlight through glass does not provide Vitamin D
by Florin_Andrei on Tuesday February 26, 2019 @03:44PM
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I know. It was not meant as an absolute statement.
Before y'all criticize that statement, keep in mind it's coming from one of the best scientists of the 20th century.
He was talking before lasers. For a purely thermal source to hurt the eyes, it would have to be:
1. insanely hot
2. quite close to the observer
First condition is met by the nuke, but the second one, obviously, is not, unless you're a victim of the explosion.