eileen

This is our side of the debate...you can go to the link to read the other one. both are rather funny.

Source Link :http://thedaily.washington.edu/2008/...un-hot-or-not/

It's hot
We need the sun.
My deranged colleague is arguing against the necessity of our friendly neighborhood star, but he’s dead wrong, or will be soon, literally. Sunshine is a critical part of photosynthesis, the biological process that powers a plethora of the planet’s plants. Let’s think about this logically.
Animals eat plants. We eat animals (or at least some of us do, and the rest eat plants). Therefore, we need the sun. So to argue “against” the sun is to argue in favor of a slow death by starvation, or, perhaps, a slow death by starvation and cold.
I say my comrade should pack up and move to Pluto where he belongs. He’ll be pretty safe from the sun from an average of 3,660 million miles away. Of course, he may or may not be on a planet (as that’s still being debated), but at least he’ll be far away from the “giant thing in the sky,” as he calls it.
We need more sunshine, if anything. We don’t get enough in Seattle, leading to deficiencies of vitamin D, a vitamin that protect people against lymphoma, colon, prostate, lung and even skin cancer (yes, skin cancer). Vitamin D, or the “sunshine vitamin,” is manufactured after skin is exposed to ultraviolet rays from the sun.
In fact, the sunshine vitamin helps with immunity, producing the antimicrobial agents (for example, natural antibiotics) that keep us from getting sick during the winter. That’s one of the reasons why the flu season rages in the winter and not the summer.
The lack of sunshine also has psychological effects: seasonal affective disorder (SAD) is real enough that the UW Counseling Center offers light therapy for sufferers. People with SAD — and that’s pretty much everyone — need more sun.
In fact, we should move our planet closer to the sun, as soon as possible. I’m not sure how we’d do that, but I’m sure there’s a way. Or we could colonize Mercury, which is only 43 million miles to the sun at its closest point. Sure, we might get vaporized, but at least we’d have enough vitamin D. I’d rather fry healthy than die sickly — I’d rather not die deficient in vitamin D.
Another solution would be to set up a system of giant windmills to blow the clouds away from Seattle. Let’s make Seattle sunny year-round. Of course, we need the rain, but we can schedule it. We can get it over and done with on Mondays, for example.
Either way, we need the sun, and we need more of it, more often. If it’s out right now, you should get out there, too. Drop whatever you’re doing. Soak it up.

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under-exposure to uv rays is as dangerous as over-exposure...This is "D" life! (eileen)