Challenge #01931-E107: What Does it See?
...I gazed into the sun. You would not see it unless you were looking, but it was there. There was a pupil, an iris, cornea...
Then... the sun... blinked. -- Anon Guest
It took less than a second. Just like any blink you or I may know. Nobody else saw it because you just don't look at the sun unless you want to risk going blind. Plus this is the sort of thing that you could literally blink and miss.
There had to be a way to prove that it happened. Cameras won't work. They have something to make the sun look... sun-ish. And once you have a pinhole camera obscura, something happens to make the sun look like a sun and not an eye. I don't know what do do about it, to be honest.
You can't just tell people that the sun is actually a giant eyeball without expecting to be locked up. You could probably start a religion based on the idea that the sun is God's eyeball and maybe get away with it... but that sort of horseshit always ends up with kool-aid or psychotic followers poisoning a town to get their way in elections or something. Do not want to go there. Neither do I really wish to find like-minded weirdoes who may or may not have seen the sun... blink.
You never know if they really have or -occam's razor speaking- have gone off the deep end. Hell, I don't even know if I'm crazy. Did I see what I think I saw? Was I hallucinating? And what could possibly cause that kind of thing to even happen? Whatever it was.
So I did what any allegedly sane and sensible human would do if they thought they saw the sun blink. I opened up an anonymous browser window and googled "sun blink" with the quotes.
Lots of info on Blink-182, some poetry, twelve conspiracy sites, and one Wordpress account with a scientific spin on the thing.
Well... as long as it didn't get into foil hat territory. I could go down that rabbit hole and at least find some theories. The blog was called, I Saw the Sun Blink and All I Got Was This Stupid T-Shirt and yes, it sold T-shirts with that legend on them through Lulu.
The first blog entry was all about how you really shouldn't look directly at the sun, and ways to see and record the sun-eye-blink without winding up afoul of what they called the 'sunspot effect'. And the solution was as simple as blue cellophane.
There was even a video.
I did as the instructions said, and recorded my own proof. Shit. It was real. The sun blinked once a day, usually near to noon, and there was a group of maybe twenty people who had done this. Nobody knew what it meant.
But I'm glad to know it means I'm not crazy.
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