So today I learned . . .

[Graymouse]

That pigeons sleep only one brain hemisphere at a time.

And the idea has been fucking with my head all day now. I'm not sure I can even comprehend how this must be. Anyone?

Anyone else care to share an annoyingly mindblowing factual tidbit?

 

[Nicki19]

That explains why the pigeons near me always seem so confused...

 

[Orwell84]

This confirms what i have always suspected. I do not frequent this site because I am a pervert, nor do I frequent this site to satisfy my prurient interests. I am here for the edification, and the self improvement resulting therefrom.

 

[islandman]

that people with alot of money often do not have any brains. Makes one wonder how they got that rich in the first place, and why I can't do it as well.

 

[CoolidgEffect]

That pigeons sleep only one brain hemisphere at a time.

And the idea has been fucking with my head all day now. I'm not sure I can even comprehend how this must be. Anyone?

Anyone else care to share an annoyingly mindblowing factual tidbit?

where did you hear this?

 

[Graymouse]

I just got back from a neuroscience seminar. The keynote speaker--I forget his name--mentioned it in passing, so I figure it's pretty acurate information. Weird, huh?

 

[CoolidgEffect]

I just got back from a neuroscience seminar. The keynote speaker--I forget his name--mentioned it in passing, so I figure it's pretty acurate information. Weird, huh?

Cool, I just did a search and found it on the web.

They can control which hemisphere rests as well.

Sounds like aquatic mammals such as dolphins, whales, seals, and manatees.

 

[peachykeen]

okay. If the nucleus of an atom was the size of a bowling ball, the first electron in its orbital shell would be the size of a bee, circling it in a five mile radius.

What's in between?

 

[tenyari]

Pigeons also have amazing eyesight.

Human sight is effectively RGB- three types of cones picking up values of those three colors. Similar to a computer monitor.

Color blind people are not actually greyscale, but missing most or all of one of those color cones.


Pigeon have I think 7 different cones, though it may have been 5... I picked this up in a seminar on color a few years back.

What they get out of those extra cones is something beyond easy comprehension in terms of vividness and detail.

Those annoying little birds will likely become very important when we reach the age of nanotechnology and genetic customizing. Producing workers who can see amazing detail and never need sleep would both be valuable assests to future corporations (you can outlaw all the human cloning you want, they'll just move overseas or into orbit and set up a new lab...)

 

[CoolidgEffect]

okay. If the nucleus of an atom was the size of a bowling ball, the first electron in its orbital shell would be the size of a bee, circling it in a five mile radius.

What's in between?

Ether

Or is that were all those damn quarks live?

 

[tenyari]

okay. If the nucleus of an atom was the size of a bowling ball, the first electron in its orbital shell would be the size of a bee, circling it in a five mile radius.

What's in between?

God.


And she's getting awefully tired holding that bee out there...

 

[CoolidgEffect]

Producing workers who can see amazing detail and never need sleep would both be valuable assests to future corporations (you can outlaw all the human cloning you want, they'll just move overseas or into orbit and set up a new lab...)

Literotica is already helping produce workers that can type with one hand. Well they're not exactly working.

 

[Mountain Man]

Literotica is already helping produce workers that can type with one hand. Well they're not exactly working.

Multi Tasking...It's called Multi Tasking

 

[ScarlettRose]

okay. If the nucleus of an atom was the size of a bowling ball, the first electron in its orbital shell would be the size of a bee, circling it in a five mile radius.

What's in between?

quantum foam?