Originally Posted by Ross Hendrie
Yeah Ronn, in reality at that range through plain glass your whole body would be burned. Like that guy from Sunshine.
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Originally Posted by Ronnie Rowlands
Hmm. Not exactly what I was thinking of, but I guess you're right. I was thinking more about the blindness bit. The fact it hurts my cold blue eyes when I look at it from my window, but they can look from just a few miles is a bit weird.
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Aw, come on -- of all the things you could choose to pick on, you pick one of the one's that's probably the easiest to explain. At that point in time, especially considering what the ship set out to do, it's very easy to imagine that they'd invented ships' hulls and shielding that protects against heat and radiation from the sun, and even easier to imagine that they'd heard of a little something called tinted windows.
