• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Because the lens in your eye you use to focus, acts like a burning glass, and burn the back of your eye, where what you see is focused at.

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      It’s like using a magnifying glass to burn an ant on the pavement, but the sun is you, you’re the ant, and the sun is using your eyeball as the magnifying lens