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Originally Posted by Ronald Brak
Wasn't that Deep Impact? Amazing how $2 sunglasses can stop over 99% of UV radiation but a space suit helmet don't do a thing.
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Oh, yeah, you're right... it was Deep Impact. The one of the pair that was supposed to have actually listened to its science advisors.
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And why did they send up an astronaut with such a severe neurological condition? When most people accidently look at they sun they shut their eyes and look away. Most people don't continue to stare into it while screaming, unlike in that movie.
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He was screaming because the UV radiation was burning his face to a crisp. Finding materials that absorb UV light is easy. To make his space suit helmet transmit the UV, enough to burn his face, they'd have to go out of their way to make the helmet out of a UV transmitting material.