Four-Eyed Astronauts

How come my eyes are more sensitive to light when I wear contact lenses?

———- from Jim Haverkamp of Arlington Hts, IL

Contact lenses are made from a material that accelerates photons, causing them to bombard the retina with even greather energy. First developed by NASA as a coating for telescopes in space, this material accidentally found its way into the eyes of a near-sighted astronaut. When he found he could see without his glasses, hie thought he was merely having a psychic experience in deep space. Instead, he was having a psychotic breakdown, but one with a happy side effect for the formerly four-eyed. Today this institutionalized test pilot is affectionately known as the “Father of Contact Lenses.”