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The Dangers of Being Really, Really Tired
Sleepy Dog Millionare writes "Brian Palmer, writing for Slate, asks 'Can you die from lack of sleep?' and shockingly, the answer may very well be Yes, you can. Palmer points to 'ground breaking experiments' in the area of sleep research. It turns out that sleep deprivation can actually be deadly in rats. The obvious conclusion is that it is probably deadly in all mammals. So the next time you think you need to pull multiple all-night hack-a-thons, ask yourself if it's worth risking your life for."
I wouldn't be able to get a first post.
But did they feed the rats Jolt?
It keeps me alive!
Now if I can just do something about those damned bats...
According to a reliable source, a lack of REM sleep in a group of people will cause them to go crazy and start murdering each other...
I don't know... so far, research indicates that any test will at some point cause death in rats. I've never read conclusions like "tests indicate that the rats live on just fine throughout the experiments".
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Is this official? Does this mean I can sue my University for torture!
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Is there anyone here who seriously thought that it would be even remotely related to ok, to not sleep for several days?
Not only does it make you stupid as hell, and depressed. Your brain also starts to fail more and more. Even if you do not die, you will not be far away from a zombie.
Hope you do not run up to me in that state, because I am going to shoot you. I don't take risks zombies. Zombies and raptors. Especially zombie raptors. ^^
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
So...all of us who work on IT have our days counted? ? ? ?
Nonsense of course. All my research proves the contrary.
Everyone who's wise knows sleep is really an addictive illness that needs to be overcome.
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What's the LD50?
I remember reading some time ago (in the 1970's) of some research that was already old then (1950's?), about sleep deprivation literally killing cats.
Anybody who can keep a cat awake deserves a Nobel Prize.
lol - someone had to say it..
That's 11 (eleven) 0x0B in hex, \013 in octal, 1011 in binary, days... not 2....
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I had a night job at a factory one time. 11pm to 7am. This meant that I slept about every two days.
I had a beekeeping hobby during the off factory hours. Can't put those little critters off. Once I was so sleepy I gathered a swarm into a box on the top of a 10' ladder. Then took a good nap up there with the idea or waiting for the bees to move to my box. Woke up a couple of hours later to an unpleasant dream which turned out to be reality. I had slept through a few bee stings. The swarm had moved, not into the box, but over and into my bee netting, clothes, hair, face, etc.
It was just annoying because swarms are fairly placid. So I carefully pulled my bee covered bee netting off and put that in the box. Went and took a proper nap in a bed.
You folks do anything interesting while sleep deprived? Leave out anything that could get you into trouble.
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It was a programme on TV the other week about some guy in Canada and an experimental drug with a name of some sort. What more do you need???
Your naps didn't happen to occur right after 4:20, did they?
I have twin ten-month-old boys. Apparently, I should have died dozens of times over by now.
Better living through money.
I don't have the need to be out late every night in a desperate search for pussy.
You should keep your cat indoors. And anyway, they attack the native wildlife if you let them out at night.
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But if you know how to get that REM while awake instead, I'm listening.
I'd imagine it would be rather uncomfortable what with your eyes rapidly moving around and making everything wiggly.
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Uh, no. Even if be had lived, what were his chances of reproducing?