For someone who lives in the Algarve and routinely goes out without sunscreen (I know, I know), it's astonishing how much sunburn I got from 2 hours on the solent on a mostly overcast day yesterday. I guess the sea really bounces that UV around.
I don't even bother with sunscreen because I tan so quickly, but the ex was your typical Anglo-Saxon lobster in the sun! I forget the brand, but there is a particular high-SPF cream she swore by that binds to the skin, so even going swimming won't wash it off.
Quite expensive stuff, as I remember, but worth it because you don't have to keep reapplying it. She spent a month in Goa during a heatwave, and returned looking like she'd spent a weekend in Cornwall. 😆
@ajlanes Here are solar cells built into a sail (as well as liquid crystal panels for steering), but this might not be what you had in mind en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •I don't even bother with sunscreen because I tan so quickly, but the ex was your typical Anglo-Saxon lobster in the sun! I forget the brand, but there is a particular high-SPF cream she swore by that binds to the skin, so even going swimming won't wash it off.
Quite expensive stuff, as I remember, but worth it because you don't have to keep reapplying it. She spent a month in Goa during a heatwave, and returned looking like she'd spent a weekend in Cornwall. 😆
Sarah Brown
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Unknown parent • •Alexandra Lanes
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in reply to Alexandra Lanes • • •en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKAROS
uncrewed Japanese experimental solar sail space probe
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Sarah Brown
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