Roost Air Lounge => General Discussion => Topic started by: Frank N. O. on May 04, 2007, 04:15:38 PM
Title: Goverment testing for sun-blocking clothes?
Post by: Frank N. O. on May 04, 2007, 04:15:38 PM
I just noticed a headline on the danish news (no idea why I keep reading, it's almost all just bad news) and it said a danish company had developed clothes that blocked all but 2% of UV-radioation from the sun by using a special weaving-method. Here's the part I noticed, it was mentioned that the australian goverment had tested it to confirm the claim, and the article said that sun-blocking clothes like that were important there, is that due to the thin ozone-layer I've heard about over Australia or is it any place in the world with many sun-hours?
Frank
Title: Re: Goverment testing for sun-blocking clothes?
Post by: TheSoccerMom on May 05, 2007, 10:39:47 PM
I've never seen these items close-up, but have seen them in quite a few sporting goods catalogs. I'm curious if they really work, but am too cheap to actually buy anything to see. :D
Title: Re: Goverment testing for sun-blocking clothes?
Post by: Baradium on May 06, 2007, 08:35:53 PM
I was under the impression that most clothing blocked most UV radiation... really doesn't take much to stop...
Title: Re: Goverment testing for sun-blocking clothes?
Post by: Frank N. O. on May 06, 2007, 08:42:45 PM
Ah, well I guess I don't know that much anyway. One thing that really was a point of interest for me was to reduce the risk of dying from cancer like my dad, his younger brother, sister and their dad, or have to go thrue surgury to survive it like the other sister and one of her kids had to do. (The older brother that died three doors down two weeks after we moved over here was the only one that didn't die due to cancer, that was a heart-attack).
