Posted by Confused on August 16, 2002 at 17:24:10:

It's not a very good idea to wear a black T-shirt on a hot day. If you did you would get hot quickly because darker colours attract more heat. In order to keep cool you could wear a white T-shirt.

Why is it that, when exposed to the sun, our skin turns a darker colour (ie tan). Wouldn't this make matters worse by attracting more of the suns harmful rays.

Nature may have got it wrong in this case...........It would make so much more sense if we turned whiter when exposed to the sun!

I can imagine it now.......I come back from holidays and people say to me
"Have you been on holidays, you look very well....you're so pale!!"

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• Re: can't quite figure it out Boffin from Nephin 17:35:53 16/08/02 (4)
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