These types of lists are a huge stretch of wishful thinking.
As an example, here is a history of LASIK, from The LASIK Vision Institute:
https://www.lasikvisioninstitute.com/the-history-of-lasik-surgery/
I appreciate the correction about Tang predating the Apollo mission.
That leaves $24 billion for a bag of rocks and bragging rights for the moon landing.
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So because you believe that one item on the list is somehow in error, all the others are similarly dismissed?
A quote from the documentation I gave - which you must not have read:
“LASIK technology comes from the 1980s efforts for autonomous rendezvous and docking of space vehicles to service satellites. Eventually a range and velocity imaging LADAR was demonstrated that could be used for docking spacecraft. LADAR was also used in military and NASA-sponsored research for applications in strategic target tracking and weapons firing control. This technology is used by Eye surgeons to track eye movements at a rate of 4,000 times per second while reshaping the cornea, the clear front surface of the eye, using a laser.”
As you can see this refers to the TECHNOLOGY, not the PROCEDURE which are two different things.
Doctors took the technology and created a procedure. Without the tech, no procedure no LASIK
So that’s another miss.
As for all the others ...