So, I’m the anomaly. I’m at the Air Force Academy, I have perfect vision, and I don’t want to fly. I don’t want to be an astronaut. I want to stay right here on the ground and catch bad guys.

I have friends here who would kill me for my eyes and I have friends in ROTC who would kill me for the fact that the Academy receives a disproportionate amount of the pilot training slots each year. And since the accepted route into space is to fly here on Earth for a while, I’ve got some space geek friends who mourn my squandered opportunity as well.

But if it’s your eyes that are keeping you out of space, despair no longer! Threat Level reports that NASA has just announced LASIK is a legit surgery! Great news, since apparently 50% of the program applicants are denied because of crappy eyes.

So fare thee well, my visually-impaired, space-minded (not spacy-minded) friends. Get that vision fixed and you’ll be up in space before you can say “Robert Heinlein.”

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