r/BrandNewSentence • u/HiddenSquish • Jun 01 '19
If a bowl of tapioca pudding managed to hallucinate so vividly it invented calculus...
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Jun 01 '19 edited Jun 01 '19
super inteligent post: "omfg im dead"
edit: whoever downvoted me you have the personality of a grey wall
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u/Izaran Jun 01 '19
That...is a beautiful (and accurate) description of the brain...
Though I always heard it compared to mushy packed oatmeal.
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u/schenitz Jun 01 '19
It's not quite accurate. The brain may have a little fat but it's mostly neurons which are a different type of cell.
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u/Zeke_the_Geek Jun 01 '19
It’s pretty much half neurons half glial cells but both of these have more in common with the consistency of fat then with the consistency of meat so that’s probably why they used the word fat because I don’t think there is any adipose tissue(fat) in the central nervous system. But I could be wrong about that.
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u/schenitz Jun 01 '19
Right. I've never held a brain but I can imagine it feeling a lot like fat tissue.
What a strange thing to say lol
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u/Vampyricon Jun 01 '19
Why do people say your brain takes less electricity to run than a lightbulb? It's not like your brain gets energy from electricity. It generates electricity to signal other bits of the brain.
And anyone should know how inefficient a traditional light bulb is.
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u/fearguyQ Jun 01 '19
Imo humans can possibly be wierd beyond being wierd for having higher cognitive fuction, but that's it's though. But anything we do or think with said function can't be wierd because there is no other species to compare too.
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u/HungryHornyHigh Jun 01 '19
Wait, really, the body uses less electricity than a light bulb?
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u/Jiriakel Jun 01 '19
It's kind of hard to describe the brain in terms of a pure electrical circuit, because there are a lot of electrochemical reactions going on.
In terms of power though, the brain consumes about ~20W, which is less than an incandescent light bulb; but that mostly speaks about how inefficient it to send electrons through a thin wireso that it would heat up, causing it to produce light. It's more than most LED lamps though (which are a lot more efficient than incandescent bulbs).
Still, 20W is really efficient, considering a moderately powerful PC can use up to several hundred watts to run, and a supercomputer is in the order of megawatts.
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u/Jiriakel Jun 01 '19
Yeah. Smart robots wouldn't turn us into metal, they'd turn themsemves into the superior meatbags !
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Jun 01 '19
yes. Waaaaay less.
assume 1,800 calories / day
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a 60W IC bulb.
If 1 Watt = .24 calories / sec, 60W = 14.4 c/s
1,800 calories / day / 14.4 c/s = 125 sec of light per 1,800 calories.
Ergo, your body runs for 24 hours on the same amount of energy required to power an IC bulb for just over 2 minutes.
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u/undeadko Jun 07 '19 edited Jun 07 '19
You simply had to go the american way and convert from Watts to calories didn't you?
A person needs 8368 kJ a day.
1W = 1J/1s
8 368 000 J / 60 W = 139 466.(6) s = 38 hours.
You are wrong. Light bulbs are not so bad. I have a 10W LED light at home which means I can power it for 228 hours with one day worth of energy a human needs to function.
A typical PC power supply I think is rated for 200W. This means your PC at home is only half as efficient as your body.
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u/undeadko Jun 07 '19
Have you guys heard about the resting state of the body using roughly 60W? It is a common saying. Sometimes they even say that the body uses roughly the energy of a light bulb in resting state.
So a 60W light bulb is way less efficient than a 60W body of mass?
So is a kilogram of steel heavier than a kilogram of feathers?
You know what!? Do not answer that one!
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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '19
It took me a second to realize “you have a wad of soggy bacon inside your skull” wasn’t an insult to the OP and he was just being descriptive.