Penguin survives on 4-second microsleeps – times a day
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Re: Penguin survives on 4-second microsleeps – times a day
#2At first thought - 4-second reboot sounds great! But at "more than 10,000 times" it's more like a bootloop.
Re: Penguin survives on 4-second microsleeps – times a day
#3How is that different from blinking?
Re: Penguin survives on 4-second microsleeps – times a day
#4How is that different from blinking?
Do you blink for four seconds at a time?
Re: Penguin survives on 4-second microsleeps – times a day
#5How is that different from blinking?
Can you replace a night's sleep with many long blinks?
Re: Penguin survives on 4-second microsleeps – times a day
#6I listened to a story about this on NPR and a scientist came on and basically said “in no way should you compare this to sleep that happens in humans, they are not at all similar” - kinda got the feeling that he was a bit annoyed by the reporting on this because it inevitably would draw all these false parallels.
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#8Title is busted -- maybe "Penguin survives on 4-second microsleeps 10k times per day"
Re: Penguin survives on 4-second microsleeps – times a day
#9At first thought - 4-second reboot sounds great! But at "more than 10,000 times" it's more like a bootloop.
Yeah 40,000 seconds is ~11 hours of sleep!