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Originally posted by Pilot
I would like to hear from any of you folks who spend a lot of time outdoors. This year since Spring has come so early, I was out in the yard cleaning up and planting, etc. and noticed that the sunlight "stings". It is actually painful. I was wondering if anyone else noticed this. I spoke to a pal of mine in TN who is a landscaper and one of his employees and he both mentioned that they had also felt this.
I looked for some information on the subject and could only find articles about sunburn. I am careful not to get burned, I had melanoma years ago. If you are out only a few minutes, it hurts. I don't remember ever experiencing this before. I'm wondering if it's just me getting old and more sensitive; something common, nothing to fret about, or WHAT!
Pilot
Originally posted by Pilot
I would like to hear from any of you folks who spend a lot of time outdoors. This year since Spring has come so early, I was out in the yard cleaning up and planting, etc. and noticed that the sunlight "stings". It is actually painful. I was wondering if anyone else noticed this. I spoke to a pal of mine in TN who is a landscaper and one of his employees and he both mentioned that they had also felt this.
I looked for some information on the subject and could only find articles about sunburn. I am careful not to get burned, I had melanoma years ago. If you are out only a few minutes, it hurts. I don't remember ever experiencing this before. I'm wondering if it's just me getting old and more sensitive; something common, nothing to fret about, or WHAT!
Pilot
Originally posted by ArMaP
reply to post by Narcissous
What about people that have skin compatible with sunlight, like myself?
n 1982, the British medical journal the Lancet reported on the relationship between skin-cancer and sun exposure.
The researchers found that those whose main activity was outdoors had the lowest risk of developing skin-cancer.
Other studies have yielded the same results.
An overview of all of the published research reported in the International Journal of Cancer revealed that multiple studies show that people with “heavy occupational exposure” to the sun have significantly lower risk of melanoma.
High, lifetime recreational sun exposure lowers your risk.
Additional studies performed at the British Columbia Cancer Agency confirmed that the higher your lifetime recreational sun exposure, the lower your risk of skin-cancer.
Lifeguards in Australia have the lowest rates of melanoma.
In the February 2, 2005 issue of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute a study confirmed that exposure to the sun reduces the risk of skin-cancer.
Aluminium is a superconductor at a very low temperature (1.2 ºK = -457.24 ºF = -271.8 ºC), so it does not act as a superconductor in the atmosphere.
Originally posted by Unity_99
How could aluminum, which is a superconductor, protect us from the sun???