How would a 48 hour long day be?
Our bodies are designed to handle it ofc Would it improve life or wreck a ton of people? Could you handle a 48 hour long day?
We would also sleep like 16 hours a day mehehehehehehehe
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It'd be a 48 hour long day...next stupid ass question.
Go live for someyear in north europe where day last 6months and night last 6months
Well physically the human body isn't designed in a way to preform such a thing, think of your brain as a battery that hits maximum charge after 8 hours of sleep.(Deviations may apply). Sure you can sleep more but you can't charge past maximum and you can run the battery dangerously low for so long before it dies. Also like a battery the human body has been known to show symptoms from oversleeping or not sleeping enough. Sooner or later you have a strained battery where it just doesn't charge as well or last as long. This is not factual but just a thought: But with the human body it is my understanding that this is a buildup of decay from oxidization which can only be repaired by being in a state of rest long enough for the body to repair the decay so it is manageable.
Other than that when I was younger I used to stay up for forty sometimes fifty hours at a time during my sleep cycles, but one day I found myself having a panic attack as I was trying to fall asleep and I've never been able to shake them. My doctor diagnosed me with random panic disorder with that being the only linking cause. So in a sense a lack of sleep over extended periods of time can cause permanent damage to the battery. In some cases people can go extreme lengths without sleep, in some cases in upwards of a week maybe two but eventually those people start to suffer serious complications and in rare cases death. So chances are depending on the stage of development of your brain(age) it could be beneficial to undertake menial tasks that don't require to much thought as to not exacerbate the effects of tiredness but overall it would be a waste of time as you wouldn't function anywhere near as well as you would have had you had proper rest.
Well at least that's my views on the subject.
"Our bodies are designed to handle it ofc"
Then it would make no difference.
I live my life as a 2080 hour day. I just take 8 hour naps every 16 hours.
If a day would be 48 hours by default the human body would've adjusted to this from the beginning.
Wasn't there some study sometime in the early 2000s about how the body actually has a natural clock of 36 hours (not 48hours like you wrote).
36 would make sense, being awake for 20 hours is super easy, and in the last 2 of them you start to become tired, which would then lead onto a full 8 hour sleep. But sadly we can't make the planet rotate slower for this to happen.
I managed to stay awake for 28 hours the other day, purely because I couldn't sleep and I had to go do a 6am to 6pm shift at work. so I was awake from 3pm wednesday to 8pm thursday. I really wouldn't recommend it to people however, since it involved a lot of caffeine and abusing a pharmaceutical. I'm too old to do stuff like this anymore.