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Make Those Brown Eyes Blue
randomErr writes A new procedure has been developed that can turn any brown eye to blue. The procedure uses a laser that disturbs the melanin in the pigmented part of the eye. Over the course of a few weeks your body would eliminate the disturbed pigment revealing the blue layer below all people have. The procedure costs about $5,000 and only takes a few second to complete. You can't get it yet in the U.S. because it still going through clinical trials and some ophthalmologists fear that process could increase pressure in the eyes.
...things not worth $5000
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I'm an older gent (I'm in my late 70s). I've witnessed a lot of change of my life, including the rise of computers and the Internet. But nothing amazes more more than medical science. Here we are, able to turn brown eyes blue. I never would have thought that would be possible during my lifetime. And I've also heard that thanks to modern surgical techniques, it's possible to turn a woman into a man, and a man into a woman. Sometimes the surgery is so effective that it's nearly impossible to tell the difference! Back when I was a young man, if somebody had blue eyes, it's because they always had blue eyes. And if somebody had a penis, it's because they always had a penis. But thanks to advancements in medical science, what I knew to be true when I was a young man is no longer the case now. Brown eyes can become blue. Penises can be surgically crafted, and be indistinguishable from the real thing. Medical science: it's amazing!
I'm not sure this is a good thing. The extra melanin apparently gives the eye extra protection from UV rays. I guess if you live in the far north its no big issue but if you live in the southern hemisphere near the equator you may want to thing twice about this. That melanin is there for a reason
I once charged $1000 equivalent in local currency to walk into a place, press a power button and press Enter and then walk out again (server "wasn't working", whole business was down, told them to try various things, ended up in them requesting and emergency callout, had to move clients around and rush over there, to find that the display on a server wasn't switched on. On the screen, it had "Press Enter to boot from...." message. I pressed Enter. Waited around a bit to ensure that was all that went wrong, charged a day's callout, went home).
It's not the action you take, it's the knowing that the action you take is the correct action to fix things, guaranteed. Back then, I wasn't paid by the hour, or paid by the qualification, or paid by the years of experience, or paid by the number of things I did. I was paid to solve the problem. And solving the problem often needed a whole lot more insight than just pressing a button but often that's what it LOOKED like. "Should we just restore from backup?" Woah, no, hold fire. Let's stop, think. And that stopping and thinking saved my arse on more than a few occasions rather than launching into fixing the symptoms of the problem.
And I bet medical school costs a FUCKING lot of money and the laser costs a FUCKING lots of money and the insurance if you get things wrong costs a FUCKING lot of money and the sterile building full of nurses and other equipment costs a FUCKING lot of money too. Plus, it's cosmetic surgery, so it's profit-based. To be honest, I'm amazed it's that cheap. You can barely get laser correction surgery for that price.
Nope. Only brown eyes are caused directly by pigments. Blue eyes and green eyes actually don't exist per se: there is no blue or green pigment. Blue eyes look blue for the same reason the sky looks blue: Rayleigh scattering. Green eyes, much more rare, are in-between, and don't even look green in certain lights or certain angles.