Recent questions tagged sun

Description : Could you live in a country where the sun never set for part of the year?

Last Answer : Not if it’s always cold.

Description : What makes for the different colors/shades or colour when it comes to rivers? See detail.

Last Answer : Minerals in the rocks/mud/silt on the bottom of the waterway and minerals dissolved in and /or being carried by the water.

Description : If the Earth went out of orbit and is headed out of the solar system could any of us survive?

Last Answer : In limited numbers, underground, powered by geothermal and nuclear energy.

Description : Is there some sort of formula for how much shade is cast?

Last Answer : Get a 3D program, build a rough stand in for the house, animate the sun and how it moves throughout the day, and render out a small raytraced animation. Then you can also play around with other ... shrubs of different sizes. Or modify the shape of the pool depending on the shadow cast by the house.

Description : It being quite common to use umbrellas as protection against rain, why is their use against sunlight and snowfall unheard of?

Last Answer : I see them in use in sunny weather every single day. I can look out my office window right now and see some. 100% guaranteed. They are even sold with a UV reflective material on the top.

Description : How long did Trump look at the eclipse, and why did he say he did?

Last Answer : Does he do anything that is a good idea?

Description : Is it debatable that west is wherever the sun is setting?

Last Answer : No. Not in the north and south poles. Where night is 24 hours a day in the summer ,and reversed in the winter.

Description : Is it necessary for sunglasses to have tinting to block all 100% UV rays, glare, and be polarized?

Last Answer : I think you’d get regular glasses like that. Sunglasses need to be tinted and break the light differently in order to serve their purpose. There is a type of regular spectacles that get tinted in bright light, but are otherwise clear. Is that what you refer to?

Description : What is the hydrogen consumption rate of Betelgeuse?

Last Answer : answer:If you ask this question out loud 3 times while looking in a mirror, will you spontaneously combust? Should this be in the General Section?

Description : Why won't my neck tan? (This is bound to be the most pressing question ever asked on ask-public...:P)

Last Answer : answer:Sounds like you may be developing a mild case of Red Neck-itus Have you noticed any of the following symptoms? -teeth loosening? -craving for fried everything? -unexplainable new ... I recommend that all single string musical instruments be removed from your life immediately. Good luck!

Description : Does vitamin D from the sun work immediately?

Last Answer : While I haven’t found a timeline yet, I’m pretty sure that showering would have no effect. How your body converts sunlight to Vitamin D

Description : Did you know there is going to be a solar eclipse on March 20th?

Last Answer : I went to see and experience totality twice: March 7, 1970 off the coast of Massachusetts (I forget the island.) and on July 10, 1972 in Cap-Chat Quebec. The first time the sky was clear and I ... myself as far out into the water as possible. 40+ years ago and I still smile just thinking about it.

Description : In this day and age of information, how could the percentage of ignorance be going up?

Last Answer : answer:The same sources used to disseminate information can be used to disseminate disinformation. If a person is convinced to believe that a certain book is the inalienable word of God, and that book says the sun rises and moves around the earth

Description : What could cause the sun to appear to be missing a chunk? [Details]?

Last Answer : answer:Could it have been the partial solar eclipse? http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/22/tech/innovation/partial-solar-eclipse/index.html

Description : How dangerous are solar flares to Earth?

Last Answer : answer:Uhhn well did you see the movie Knowing? There’s your answer. Just kidding; it won’t clean life off the earth. But it will screw up our modern lifestyle.

Description : Why does looking directly into the sun with both eyes hurt, yet if you do it with one eye, it does not?

Last Answer : answer:As you no doubt already know, looking into the sun can cause permanent damage to your eye. I don't need to look into the sun to have my eyes hurt from the light. If I have been in the dark, ... bright light? I didn't answer your question, I hope you don't mind my answer. I'll be following.

Description : What regulates the nuclear fusion rate within stars?

Last Answer : Nothing controls the reaction. It is a fusion reactor in meltdown. But just like the centralia Pennsylvania coal fire, it's taking a while burning through all the fuel. Wikipedia The intermediate by products ... hydrogen far more often than form into helium. So I think that's the rate limiting step.

Description : Will I ever be able to tan?

Last Answer : You can always do the spray tan, it’s better for you than the sun anyway. Some people are melatonin deficient, like myself, and have to go like every day before you can tan, it gets expensive.

Description : Is it possible for the Sun to break up in two? (Two Suns)?

Last Answer : answer:Like mitosis? Splitting like a cell? There's no evidence that I'm aware of that would suggest this has happened or could happen. It may be possible for planets to orbit a binary star ... science fiction, go right ahead and write about a planet in a binary star system. Enough people have.

Description : Are there any of these things that you haven't done? See details.?

Last Answer : Ha, I love those things, horrendous grammar and all. I’ve done all of those things. I still do #1 quite often.

Description : Can I " get sun" in the winter?

Last Answer : Absolutely yes. In fact, many people are at risk for sunburns in winter because they stay out in the sun longer. Also bear in mind that we’re actually slightly closer to the sun in January than we are in July. I don’t know if it’s significant to UVA/B radiation, but it is true. ^_^

Description : Is there an official video for the song "Here Comes the Sun" as recorded by The Beatles?

Last Answer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZeKIkvnAis

Description : Is it possible to have a fabric that just allows UV light through ?

Last Answer : Yes. That material is called Transol. Here is a non-technical article about it. Here is where you can buy it.

Description : Is Balea glow sunless tan gelee a good sunless tanner?

Last Answer : No experience in this department, but this might help. I haven’t watched it, as I have no audio, but good luck!

Description : Did you have a chance to witness the the eclipse?

Last Answer : I completely forgot about it. :(

Description : How many planets can the naked eye see?

Last Answer : answer:ONE, Earth if you want to talk about reflected light given off by a planet then 5, Venus, Earth Saturn Jupiter, and Mars. If we include evidenced, then add Mercury. We can see it’s track across the sun

Description : How often do you wear sunglasses?

Last Answer : answer:Every day and most of the time when I am outside. Never used to but I had eye surgery that has left me a bit more light sensitive. I forget I am wearing them sometimes and find ... in them. I can drive without specs but I prefer the slightly sharper vision my prescription specs give me.

Description : Why did my skin feel like it was burning?

Last Answer : Yes to sunscreen. Sounds like you will need 50.

Description : Do suntan lotions that dye the skin to simulate a tan give the same sunburn protection as a real tan?

Last Answer : *dye Also, probably not. Model toy cars do not work either.

Description : Why does the sun make me sneeze?

Last Answer : You’re not alone. This happens to me too. Here’s an article on it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photic_sneeze_reflex

Description : Have you been diagnosed with low vitamin D?

Last Answer : I am outside enough that I don’t need to sunbathe to get my vitimin D.

Description : Does this particular shade of blue have a name?

Last Answer : How lightfast a color is is determined by what you are using. Inkjet printer ink, oil paint, fabric dye, etc. all have different colors that are more lightfast than others. Can you tell what kind of ink was used to create the poster?

Description : Why do freckles appear when you get more sun?

Last Answer : answer:From wiki “The formation of freckles is triggered by exposure to sunlight. The exposure to UV-B radiation activates melanocytes to increase melanin production, which can cause freckles to become darker.”

Description : Humans are not to look directly in to the sun. What will happen if one does?

Last Answer : My mom said you will go blind.

Description : Why do we lose our carefully built up tan in a matter of a dozen weeks?

Last Answer : Well, you’re only changing the pigment in outermost layer of the epidermis. As those cells slough off and are replaced, your original skin tone comes back if you aren’t maintaining the tanning routine.

Description : Do I have rosacea?

Last Answer : answer:Only a doctor can diagnose it. Please see your family doctor and see if he refers you to a dermatologist.

Description : Should dark skinned people use sun screen when tanning?

Last Answer : Yes you should use sunscreen.

Description : What are the best ways to tan?

Last Answer : I just go out for a little while everyday if i can.

Description : What product will give me the most natural tan?

Last Answer : Good ol’ Sunlight with some UV protection.

Description : Why would a sunscreen leave streaks and handmarks (This is on many different brands)?

Last Answer : Poor babies! I would try using alot more to get it on more evenly.

Description : Do you have a favorite place where you love to see sunlight shining?

Last Answer : Through the leaves of an aspen grove. Love that dappled, ripply effect and the smell of aspen bark is one of my favorite things in the world.

Description : What can I use to get a darker tan?

Last Answer : Have you tried a spray on tan? They generally only last a week, but if you go to a tanning bed place, most of them offer spray tans. If you only want a tan from out in the sun, it will take time. Use a spf 15 or higher and tan a little each day. Maybe a half hour each side.

Description : Should we rally to put the world to work hardening our electronics for the next great solar Coronal Mass Ejection?

Last Answer : answer:With this all I could find on preparations: Dr Fisher said precautions could be taken including creating back up systems for hospitals and power grids and allow development on satellite ... a complete outage of electricity supplies we had better prepare for life without power. Source

Description : If the sun is closer to Earth in the winter, then why is it so cold? And if the sun is farther away in the summer, then why is it so warm?

Last Answer : answer:If the sun's rays hit the Earth straight on then it will be warm. This happens during the summer. If the sun's rays hit the Earth at an angle then the same amount of ... winter. The change in distance between the seasons is relatively slight and thus has negligible effect on temperature.

Description : What would we experience if the sun suddenly did not exist?

Last Answer : answer:Well with no solar light. 99% of our plants will die, we will slowly freeze over having nothing to heat us up, and we will be forced to live underground until we outweigh our oxygen supplies due to lack of oxygen-making plant-life. That said, we would die pretty fast.

Description : How will you react, when the sun is gone?

Last Answer : I think I’d be more worried if I were worried.

Description : Would you like to live where it's sunny all the time?

Last Answer : Philadelphia?

Description : Is laser light unnatural?

Last Answer : answer:No. In 1995, a team of scientists on an airborne observatory discovered lasers operating near the central part of the hot star MWC 349. The laser is created as intense ultraviolet ... for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, Mountain View, CA, a co-investigator in the discovery.

Description : I need a good brand of protective sunscreen got any ideas?

Last Answer : Neutrogena has some nice products, but I don’t know about longevity, if that’s what you’re asking. I have melasma, and so have to avoid the sun like a vampire. I use something called Anthelios, it seems to be one of the best rated for protection by dermatologists.

Description : What are tips to avoid sunburn if you burn very easily?

Last Answer : Sunblock, hat, wear something light to cover your arms and legs.