Fun fact : it all came from students in laser research labs accidentally lasering themselves in the eye. Upon closer inspection they found out the lasers did cuts so clean you could do eye surgery with them.
My guess is that the guy just hated wearing glasses enough that a coin toss between fixed vision and blindness was a win-win situation. Why else would he hear about this experimental technology, sign a bunch of horrific waivers, and willingly stare down the barrel of an untested ray gun? https://www.bugmartini.com/comic/a-pain-in-the-glasses/
I’m just over here with vision crappiness of a type that can’t be corrected with lenses or lasers. I’d gladly take a beam if I could finally learn what focus looks like. Alternative I cross into being blind enough to excuse stuff rather than it just being annoying and ache-inducing.
I don’t want to be a killjoy, but the first test subjects for laser eye surgery didn’t need to be compensated, because they were already dead, and had donated their corneas for the purpose.
What?!? You mean that they didn’t just pull random people in off the street and threaten to shoot a laser into their eyes to see if it had a positive effect on them? I am shocked.
They did discover laser eye surgery could be a thing through students in research labs accidentally lasering themselves in the eye. They found out the cuts were way cleaner that anything you could achieve with conventional means.
Fun fact : it all came from students in laser research labs accidentally lasering themselves in the eye. Upon closer inspection they found out the lasers did cuts so clean you could do eye surgery with them.
My guess is that the guy just hated wearing glasses enough that a coin toss between fixed vision and blindness was a win-win situation. Why else would he hear about this experimental technology, sign a bunch of horrific waivers, and willingly stare down the barrel of an untested ray gun?
https://www.bugmartini.com/comic/a-pain-in-the-glasses/
That, or they were offered TWO Pizza Hut gift cards.
My money is that the “Pizza Hut gift card” was actually a slip that gave the holder free unlimited pizza for the rest of their lifetime.
I like the way the laser looks like something out of a James Bond movie.
(A typo in panel three? I think you forgot the word “A” before “Pizza Hut gift card.”)
The thought of laser eye surgery still terrifies me. What if I have a random eye twitch? Will my vision be worse forever?
I’m just over here with vision crappiness of a type that can’t be corrected with lenses or lasers. I’d gladly take a beam if I could finally learn what focus looks like. Alternative I cross into being blind enough to excuse stuff rather than it just being annoying and ache-inducing.
They told the guy about the previous way the procedure was done, by using a scalpel to cut the cornea.
I don’t want to be a killjoy, but the first test subjects for laser eye surgery didn’t need to be compensated, because they were already dead, and had donated their corneas for the purpose.
What?!? You mean that they didn’t just pull random people in off the street and threaten to shoot a laser into their eyes to see if it had a positive effect on them? I am shocked.
They did discover laser eye surgery could be a thing through students in research labs accidentally lasering themselves in the eye. They found out the cuts were way cleaner that anything you could achieve with conventional means.