Timeline for Why do our eyes close when we sleep?
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| May 27, 2017 at 12:10 | comment | added | Don Herbison-Evans | The human optic nerve connecting an eye to the brain has about 1,000,000 or 10^6 fibres, each with a response time of about 1/100th of a second. In computer terms that accommodates a bandwidth of about 100 Megabits per second. We are awake in general for about 16 hours per day which is 57,600 seconds, so the brain receives from the eyes about 10 trillion or 10^13 informations bits per day. Under extreme conditions the the human brain can stay awake for longer than this, but its performance degrades significantly and becomes unusable at a week (168 hours) of wakefulness. During a week of wakefu | |
| Jan 31, 2016 at 22:04 | answer | added | Pride Chigs | timeline score: -3 | |
| May 14, 2014 at 22:09 | answer | added | shigeta | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 13, 2014 at 12:45 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackBiology/status/466197563390320640 | ||
| May 13, 2014 at 1:32 | answer | added | user560 | timeline score: 10 | |
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| May 13, 2014 at 0:38 | history | asked | Pranay Aryal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |