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Drugs Eradicate the Need For Sleep
MattSparkes writes "New Scientist is running an article on lifestyle drugs that claim to help you function on little or no sleep. I'm dubious, but the interviewee in the article claims they work well. 'Yves (not his real name), a 31-year-old software developer from Seattle, often doesn't have time for a full night's sleep. So he swallows something to make sure he doesn't need one.'" But, sleep is where I'm a Viking!
"New Scientist is running an article on lifestyle drugs that claim to help you function on little or no sleep. I'm dubious, but the interviewee in the article claims they work well. 'Yves (not his real name), a 31- year-old software developer from Seattle, often doesn't have time for a full night's sleep. So he swallows something to make sure he doesn't need one.'"
It's refreshing to see evolution still at work.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
They should try selling this to new parents. My wife would surely love to get her hands on some.
'Loose' is when your pants are three sizes too big. 'Lose' is when you misuse 'loose'.
But, sleep is where I'm a viking!
Don't worry, Taco! After 100 hours or so awake, you'll BE a viking, raping and pillaging and showing those pink elephants who's boss!
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
This just in: New Scientist discovers cocaine. Story at 11.
Jack Bauer's big secret is out. What chance does he stand next season when the terrorists can go 24 hours without sleeping as easily as he can?
Doctor: Now, what seems to be the problem? ... I need some modafinil--or my life will fall apart! ... I'm a ... software developer. ...
Patient: I got it bad, doc, I barely get any sleep
Doctor: Now hold on there, I don't go around giving prescriptions of that to just anyone! You're young, you look like you're in good shape, why don't you get any sleep?
Patient: Well, it's just that
Doctor: My GOD! Why didn't you say anything? *yells out the door* Nurse! I'm going to need a lifetime's supply of modafinil--stat!
Patient: Oh thank you, doc, thank you so much!
Doctor: Everything's going to be alright, plus it seems your company's health care is willing to provide 100% of the funding for this with no deductable, can't say I've seen that before. Now you say that you're married as well? Then I'm going to recommend you take two of these every day with fifth of bourbon
My work here is dung.
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Sleep eradicates the need for this drug.
"In 10 to 20 years we'll be able to pharmacologically turn sleep off." Wow! Right around that time I should be able to stay awake behind the wheel of my flying car powered by a comercially available fusion generator! In 10-20 years, everything will be great!
20th century Marxism is not progress...
Now your dreams will really miss you.
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It's called cocaine.
Schering-Plough has just annouced the first prescription drug on the market to eliminate the need to go to the can. The drug, "Excretefree", will allow people to work and play continuously without the need for potty breaks. The drug causes the anus and urethra to close tightly preventing waste products from leaving the body. There is no chance of accidental or voluntary release for 24 hrs.
Side affects include internal rupture, massive swelling of the abdomen, oral (reversed) flatulence, abdominal pain, and epic post-medication trips to the bathroom.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
"This story appeared in the New Scientist in mid-February 2006." That's because the editors thought they were hummingbirds for the last 9 months.
There are no loopholes. It's either legal or it's not.
I worry that the long term effects will not become apparent until years later, like I suspect [utah.edu] might happen with PDE inhibitors like Viagra, Cialis and Levitra.
Well, I guess if you're going to take away my PDE inhibitors, I might as well sleep anyway.
And yet we snore, toss and turn, twitch, and sometimes talk in our sleep. Nothing says easy meal more than a loud unconscious mammal.
"What, then, would 33 extra years be worth?"
Not much if you end up spending them bouncing off padded walls in a sanatorium.
May the Maths Be with you!
Deer don't sleep in dens and they are considered yummy by lots of preditors. My wife is another example of a mammal that is completely oblivious to external stimuli during sleep.
It is by the juice of the coffee bean that thoughts acquire speed, the teeth acquire stains. The stains become a warning
Stop. You're turning me on.
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Nothing more, your honor. The defense rests.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
> There was a post here some years back by someone who claimed to be able to do this.
> He [?] said he only found it useful for long-distance road trips.
> As I recall, his method worked through totally relaxing (via self hypnosis) half the body at a time.
We haven't heard from that guy in a while. Apparently, he was killed in a single-car accident at 4 a.m. on I-80 in central Nevada. Misjudged a curve due to a lack of depth perception while his left eye was sleeping.
You shall see a cow on the roof of a cotton house.
And yet we snore, toss and turn, twitch, and sometimes talk in our sleep. Nothing says easy meal more than a loud unconscious mammal.
What are you talking about? Snoring is a defensive measure. Hell, it probably sounded like a large herd of vicious animals roaring when you put enough humans together snoring in unison.
And if that's not enough, I imagine that these early humans probably didn't do much in the way of bathing. Nothing says "I just tossed my lunch" than being downwind from a large pack of primitive humans.
My 15lb schnauzer mini snores like a rock splitter.
...Steve
Yes, but how many predators, other than you, consider your wife "yummy"?
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
Nothing says "I just tossed my lunch" than being downwind from a large pack of primitive humans.
You've been to Texas????
Life is what you make of it.
I think most new children are newborn by default.
sleep is where I'm a maths genius half the time and a poet the other half?
Eloi are stupid, throw morlocks at them!
Is RLS related to morning wood?
So, the solution is to clone some dinosaurs...
strap saddles on their backs...
watch creationists walk up and try to ride them...
and get eaten.
Well I guess that's one way to clean the gene pool.
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