On Oct 25, 2010, at 12:49 PM, Bill Hawkins wrote: > Normally, the brain dies from lack of oxygen to maintain cellular > activity. Not only is this not instantaneous, it is the cause of > stories of seeing a light at the end of a tunnel that are told by > those who have been brought back from legal death. > > Two observations: > > You can't have everything. Where would you put it? (S. Wright) > > It would take an extraordinary ego to believe that anyone would > care about your exact time of death.
If you want a sub-microsecond time of death, sit on a bomb like Major T. J. "King" Kong in "Dr. Strangelove," and get your friends to time and triangulate the prompt radiation. That should be good to a few 10's of nanoseconds. Regards Marshall Eubanks > > Bill Hawkins > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
