# The news media are going to ruin the eclipse for millions of people **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 26, 2017, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-news-media-are-going-to-ruin-the-eclipse-for-millions-of-people/792171 "2017-07-26T15:53:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-news-media-are-going-to-ruin-the-eclipse-for-millions-of-people/792171/41 "2017-07-28T19:38:07Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > Fenris, huh. Aren’t you the one that tried to eat the sun last time? 😃 You eat ONE sun… ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-news-media-are-going-to-ruin-the-eclipse-for-millions-of-people/792171/42 "2017-07-28T20:01:44Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > …or they’d gotten the impression the actinic rays of an eclipsed sun would strike you down even if you didn’t look at it. > > I was on the island of Guadeloupe in 1998, and all the kids were warned to stay indoors with blinds and curtains drawn, _for the entire day._ Another old superstition I’ve heard about was – in the quaint phraseology of an earlier time – was that you shouldn’t “take a haircut” during an eclipse. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-news-media-are-going-to-ruin-the-eclipse-for-millions-of-people/792171/43 "2017-07-28T20:13:45Z")
> [@Fenris](#): > > You eat ONE sun… rofl nice 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-news-media-are-going-to-ruin-the-eclipse-for-millions-of-people/792171/44 "2017-07-28T22:50:58Z")
> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#): > > Another old superstition I’ve heard about was – in the quaint phraseology of an earlier time – was that you shouldn’t “take a haircut” during an eclipse. Really? That’s so random. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-news-media-are-going-to-ruin-the-eclipse-for-millions-of-people/792171/45 "2017-07-28T23:12:28Z")
> [@beowulff](#): > > You didn’t tell this to [Ray Bradbury](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Summer_in_a_Day), did you? Bradbury’s _All Summer in a Day_ strikes me as the same idea as _Nightfall_ by Isaac Asimov but a “mirror image” of it. ---
**Author:** ![SlackerInc](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slackerinc/32/275_2.png) [@SlackerInc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlackerInc)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2017, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-news-media-are-going-to-ruin-the-eclipse-for-millions-of-people/792171/46 "2017-07-29T06:06:37Z")
True! Never noticed that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-news-media-are-going-to-ruin-the-eclipse-for-millions-of-people/792171.md?page=2)