• @pdxfed@lemmy.world
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        79 months ago

        Definitely going to question someone’s “propagation velocity of their actions potentials” next time I want to imply they’re stupid.

        • enkers
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          9 months ago

          I know you’re joking, but it’s really a kind of reasonable mistake to think of a nerve as an electrical wire conducting a singnal at ½c. It’s wrong, but it’s also completely understandable. I wasn’t trying to imply they were stupid, I just happened to see this factoid in the last several months, and thought I could correct their innocuous error. ^^;

          • @pdxfed@lemmy.world
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            49 months ago

            Not only was I joking, I thought it was impressive you even know what that is because I sure as hell don’t, it’s great you mentioned it, that’s the kind of awesome info I know will keep me coming back here. Cheers.

    • @deus@lemmy.world
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      289 months ago

      Dinosaurs casually flexing on all other living beings with their neurons made of fiber optics

    • @jarfil@lemmy.world
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      159 months ago

      Speed of light in cables and fiber optics is about 2/3 the speed of light in vacuum. If it has to jump some electrochemical synapses, it brings it down to much less than that.