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Re:Evidence that birds sleep in mid-flight by sdegutis on Thursday October 27, 2016 @03:21PM (#12808757)
It's meant to separate days. That way each day is a new day, and you have some sort of mental partition between each one.
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Re:Evidence that birds sleep in mid-flight by white-flame on Thursday October 27, 2016 @03:40PM (#12809014)
What purpose does that serve? Why would it be more advantageous than a continuous time stream?

We don't have similar separation between morning & evening, for example. (though I've always been a fan of the siesta)

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Re:Evidence that birds sleep in mid-flight by wturner on Thursday October 27, 2016 @03:58PM (#12809255)
Its meant to serve physiological homeostasis in some way yet to be completely understood :)
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Re:Evidence that birds sleep in mid-flight by serf on Thursday October 27, 2016 @04:34PM (#12809746)
as someone who has had a rotating schedule their entire life, I wonder what that would mean for my brain.
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Re:Evidence that birds sleep in mid-flight by desertspike on Thursday October 27, 2016 @07:18PM (#12811320)
What do you mean by your "entire life"? Since you were an infant? I have non-24[1], but it didn't manifest until I was in my 20s.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-24-hour_sleep-wake_disorde...

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Re:Evidence that birds sleep in mid-flight by empath75 on Thursday October 27, 2016 @03:34PM (#12808950)
meant by who?
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Re:Evidence that birds sleep in mid-flight by sdegutis on Friday October 28, 2016 @11:47AM (#12817230)
Whoever you want.
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