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10/05/09
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I can see it all now... "Do you have a child getting ready to play baseball for the local youth league? Tune in at 10 for all information you'll need about getting the right bat, the perfect glove, and the best clinics to have your child's eyes improved!"
10/05/09
A lot of us have been saying that for years. Certain things are allowable in sports, like kids in high school losing between 50 and 80 pounds in between football and wrestling seasons, and that is considered okay, even though the health consequences are far more dire for a young body than HGH. Elective eye surgery is ridiculously common in baseball and it isn't even hidden. Some people see these things in black and white terms, but it is really all shades of gray, and if everyone else is doing it, is it really wrong to want to keep up, especially when juicing was not even against the rules and was encouraged by owners and managers? It is easy for baseball's upper management to throw the players under the bus, but even they implicitly encouraged it, just as they still encourage a form of cheating with elective eye surgery.
10/05/09
Isn't the only place in the globe that has medical innovation the US of A?!!
(ahem)
Anyone with any personal experience (either in the medical/academic fields, or as a patient) want to chime in?
It'd be some kind of awesome to see better in the dark or have hawk vision. How much fine-tuning (and operational retries) is required? Is it very much more expensive than simply getting vision to 20/20?
Most importantly, can I puhleease have cat's eyes?
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I also don't really care what professional sports players do, outside the Olympics, cause in reality they are not playing to compete nobly, they are playing to entertain us. Seriously, how much better would baseball be if the batters could actually break the sound barrier with a homer?
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I still get to kill a few people, right?
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Done and done.
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Touché. They have taught you well.
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Me, too.
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The rest, of course, is porn.
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Yes, please.
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I doubt they'll be able to do that with the current technology.
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No.
For one thing, it would encourage the space program to be filled with internal strife to improve ratings.
More importantly, this is the mistake that jackass JFK made in the first place, that got us into the situation we're in with NASA today. Making the space program into a public media circus = fail, because the general public thinks it's boring.
-Kle.
08/04/09
All of which is to say, don't underestimate people's penchant for watching absolutely nothing happen on a screen. Though I suppose they could spice things up with an astronaut confessional booth or a boxful of space puppies...