10 glasses that will protect absolutely no one during the solar eclipse

Yes, there are a lot of Eclipse gum jokes.
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Mia Johnson
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ICYMI, space scientists really don't want us staring up at the sun for today's solar eclipse without wearing the right eye protection.

Sure, you can make your own viewing devices at home, but that doesn't mean you can just wear any old thing and call it a day. But that hasn't stopped some people on the internet from showing off their creatively non-functioning solar eclipse glasses. They may not think the glasses will work, but they sure think they're funny.

Now that the big day is here, let's take a moment to laugh at these not-astronomer-approved glasses and hope people never actually wear them to stare at the sun.

Many of them are just bad puns. Sorry.

Of course, something as big as a total solar eclipse couldn't happen without the internet making a meme out of it.

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Mia Johnson

Mia Johnson was a web culture intern for Mashable. She's a Chicago native and Missouri School of Journalism graduate. She has a background in online, TV, and magazine journalism.

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