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iandhr

(6,852 posts)
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 08:41 PM Dec 2015

New Study Finds Human Beings Were Never Meant To Wake Up From Sleep

BOSTON—According to a new study published in The New England Journal Of Medicine this week, human beings were never meant to wake up after falling asleep, but were rather supposed to remain in a deep, peaceful slumber until eventually expiring. “Our research team of evolutionary biologists conducted an extensive and thorough examination of human physiology, past and present, and determined that human beings were, in their ideal state, supposed to be born, spend a solid 12 hours awake as an infant, and then lie down for a tranquil, dream-filled sleep from which they would then not awaken,” lead researcher Dennis Zeveloff said of the findings, which also suggest that life for early man was not supposed to last longer than one day. “Eventually, after spending three or four weeks lying comfortably in bed, humans were meant to just slide directly into death. In fact, the truly optimal state toward which human evolution aspired was for all individuals to succumb to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome almost instantly after exiting the womb.” The study concluded that, based on these findings, coma patients should be considered among the most highly evolved humans on the planet.

http://www.theonion.com/article/new-study-finds-human-beings-were-never-meant-to-w-34288

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New Study Finds Human Beings Were Never Meant To Wake Up From Sleep (Original Post) iandhr Dec 2015 OP
I keep telling my boss that :) RandySF Dec 2015 #1
Does the Onion really belong in GD? For this topic? SHouldn't it be in the Lounge? Xipe Totec Dec 2015 #2
Um, it is America's Finest News Source. AngryAmish Dec 2015 #4
As I said, for this topic. Nothing against The Onion per se. Xipe Totec Dec 2015 #11
Fyi AngryAmish Dec 2015 #14
Obscure does not begin to describe this. It's an inside joke to an inside joke. nt Xipe Totec Dec 2015 #15
The Onion is fair and balanced. Katashi_itto Dec 2015 #7
You should be out practicing screaming at kids to get off your lawn. Katashi_itto Dec 2015 #8
Why do I need to practice? I have decades of experience. nt Xipe Totec Dec 2015 #9
Ooooooooh, if we could apply this to D. tRump! Hepburn Dec 2015 #3
Now you see Munificence Dec 2015 #5
Some people never do! Warren DeMontague Dec 2015 #6
I KNEW it!! 2naSalit Dec 2015 #10
I really hope that this study gladium et scutum Dec 2015 #12
Says right on it that it was paid for by a taxpayer grant... ChisolmTrailDem Dec 2015 #13
It was funny until they mentioned Sudden Infant Death Syndrome CBGLuthier Dec 2015 #16
 

AngryAmish

(25,704 posts)
4. Um, it is America's Finest News Source.
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 08:54 PM
Dec 2015

And I mean that utterly unironically. Who would you rather believe, The Onion or Comcast's paid liars?

Xipe Totec

(43,890 posts)
11. As I said, for this topic. Nothing against The Onion per se.
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 11:00 PM
Dec 2015

I just didn't get the angle on this particular article. It was dark, depressing, macabre, and not really connected to current events in any way.

It was morbid for morbidity's sake.

Munificence

(493 posts)
5. Now you see
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 09:09 PM
Dec 2015

where the term "quickie" came from....makes perfect sense. At age 30 seconds you better jump up, find a mate as you've only got half a day to procreate.

"The human race is counting on you little buddy".











Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
6. Some people never do!
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 09:15 PM
Dec 2015

But fortunately for them, they have these tapes that play repetitive, authoritative-sounding bullshit out of their mouths all day long, so most other folks dont notice the difference.

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
16. It was funny until they mentioned Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Wed Dec 2, 2015, 04:12 AM
Dec 2015

Too many in my family have lost babies that way for it to be very funny. Bad Taste. I expect better from The Onion.

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