08-11-2005, 05:10 PM
kandrathe,Aug 11 2005, 04:38 PM Wrote:A healthy human can go 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water and 3 weeks without food. The article indicated he took breaks to use facilities, and had a cot to take cat naps on, so exhaustion is a stretch. In my life I've frequently done 48-72 hours without sleeping. It is obvious to me that his death would have coincidentaly happened at whatever he might have been doing. It's just that "South Korea man dies while watching TV" does not make for sensational headlines.
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I've also stayed up for 48+ hour streches on occasion (w/o naps), and all I was at the end was very tired. However, I'm in very good shape and what I was doing during that period wasn't stressful at all. I think it's fair to say that his physiology was already somehow "taxed" before he sat down for the 50 hour run. The extra load of the marathon computer game session was the "last straw".
Signature? What do you mean?