Post Race!

[dclamp]

I don't speak creole but... HEY!

I have been checking in every so often. But staying among the shadows.

[dclamp]

De clamp, de clamp

said in the voice of Hervé Villechaize

D clamp, C clamp, whats the difference.

[dclamp]

the post race has been clampless without your presence

let the clamping resume

[dclamp]

[dday9]

[dday9]

Which is kind of funny because Clamps on Futurama was really more of a crimp.

[dday9]

Better than a wimp I suppose.

[dday9]

See what I did there? Crimp. Wimp. Lol

[dday9]

[Shaggy Hiker]

Not understanding. Way too feverish. I'm at the sickest I've been for nearly thirty years.

[dclamp]

Your bug is back... great. Blocking that.

[dday9]

My bug has found Shaggy apparently.

[dday9]

Sorry to hear that you're sick.

[dday9]

Does this smiley help:

[FunkyDexter]

Wow, the post race turned sick with bad back, bad heads, and now I'm here: bad breath.

Sorry to hear about your joint DD. Personally I've got early onset arthritus which is kinda the opposite problem. The bone in the joints won't stop growing. They've told me to keep up the climbing because that should help wear it down but I swear it gets worse just after climbing and if I take a couple of weeks off it feels notably better.

And Shaggy, look, behind you, a pink elephant!

[dclamp]

I am so tired. I need to go to sleep. But I cant figure out why I havent yet.

[dday9]

I am so tired. I need to go to sleep. But I cant figure out why I havent yet.

It's very simple... Post Race!

[Shaggy Hiker]

I spent 14 hours sleeping. I'm not sure that it helped.

[dday9]

Edison said that sleep is a waste of our time and that it's a leftover from our caveman days. I'm paraphrasing obviously, but I've always liked that thinking.

[Gruff]

Dude. I am so sorry to hear bout the health issue.

[homer13j]

Meanwhile in other news: Frenchman develops pills to make flatulence smell of roses

[dclamp]

Edison said that sleep is a waste of our time and that it's a leftover from our caveman days. I'm paraphrasing obviously, but I've always liked that thinking.

Good quote. I am now going to refrain from sleeping.

[dday9]

Thomas Edison was very big on power naps.

[dday9]

But sleeping at night was something he didn't like to do.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Some people can get away with that, others can't.

Sleep is really weird when you think about it, and Edison was clearly wrong. Pretty nearly everything sleeps. Most animals live in constant fear of becoming dinner, yet we shut ourselves down for hours at a time during which we are totally vulnerable. If it was possible to evolve a different strategy, SOME animal would have done so, because the cost is clearly so high. The fact that all vertebrates sleep must mean that sleep is essential, even if we don't really know why. Whatever role it fills, it is right up there with breathing and eating (a bit below breathing, and a bit above eating).

[dday9]

Yeah, he was clearly wrong about that, but it's a unique perspective. I would love to never have to sleep. Whenever I go to bed, I have so many ideas in my head and I'm afraid of my dreams stealing them forever.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I'd rather not spend a third of my life in a dormant state, too, but it's really interesting that sleep is SO essential. We are trying to make robots and the like, and those generally have no need for sleep, but then again, they are not as capable as we are. What role does sleep play that is so essential? Would it be useful for AI, as well?

[dday9]

I've always wondered if sleep was to us as a battery swap is to a robot.

[dclamp]

Thomas Edison was very big on power naps.

Edison... power naps... POWER naps... EDISON... POWER.... I get it.

[dday9]

Drat! You've foiled my plot to subliminally insert energy puns. If it weren't for those meddling kids and their dog.

[dday9]

[dclamp]

Im onto you dday9... if thats even you real name *pulls off mask* *is actually Brad Jones*

[dday9]

Jeepers creepers!

[Bonker Gudd]

Hedgehogs for all?

[dclamp]

Going to Benihana for dinner. Woot!

[Gruff]

Moles sleep underground.
Hippos sleep under water (Sometimes).
Horses sleep standing up.
Cows sleep with their eyes open....

I knew there was a reason you shouldn't trust cows.

[Bonker Gudd]

That's a load of bull.

[Niya]

If it was possible to evolve a different strategy, SOME animal would have done so, because the cost is clearly so high.

Actually it has partially evolved already. Dolphins I believe actually only sleep with half their brain with the other half wide awake to process stimulus and keep the animals in constant motion of some kind.

[Niya]

I think sharks also sleep with half their brain.

[Niya]

Sleep is really weird when you think about it.

When you really think about it, it doesn't seem that strange at all. Think about what would happen if you left a car running for a week straight. Without "sleep", I doubt it would last very long. Hell, it may not even make the full week. Sleep most likely serves the same purpose. The idea is that any complex system that uses energy to perform work will inevitably need periods or dormancy. This of course is just my own theory. I also have a theory that if any system could perform energy conversion with 100% efficiency then rest would be unnecessary for such a system.