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Penguin survives on 4-second microsleeps – times a day

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Re: Penguin survives on 4-second microsleeps – times a day

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halfmatthalfcat wrote: post #10
koolba wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you blink for four seconds at a time?

When I'm annoyed or stressed

I'd be more than annoyed if I had to watch the kids for months naked in the middle of Antarctica's perpetual night surrounded by neighbours with no walls.

Re: Penguin survives on 4-second microsleeps – times a day

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ano-ther wrote: post #12

Need to try this! But probably difficult to emulate this 4s sleep 4.5s awake cycle in meetings. My family wouldn’t be too pleased either.

You need to get everyone on-board this schedule, family and colleagues. And hope that the awake cycles are synchronized? Come to think of it, how are the penguins communicating, seems like there would be a considerable packet loss?

Re: Penguin survives on 4-second microsleeps – times a day

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Post by darkerside »

taneliv wrote: post #16
ano-ther wrote: post #12

Need to try this! But probably difficult to emulate this 4s sleep 4.5s awake cycle in meetings. My family wouldn’t be too pleased either.

You need to get everyone on-board this schedule, family and colleagues. And hope that the awake cycles are synchronized? Come to think of it, how are the penguins communicating, seems like there would be a considerable packet loss?

I'm imagining the impossibility of holding a meeting like this, and it's hilarious. Although, there's probably a smarter species somewhere out there that would look at our attention spans, and how we hold our meetings today, and would die laughing.
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