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I just saw a story on the local news about driving a car after being awake for 17 hours or more.

In this study, they concluded that for adults 25-78 years old, being awake for 17 hours was equivalent to having a blood-alcohol level of .05. After 24 hours, it increased to .10.

So, we NORMALLY work a 14 hour day, wake up an hour or so before our show time and then, after we check in the hotel, get dinner, take a shower, talk to the wife and watch a little t.v., you are almost (physically & mentally), legally drunk.

Kinda gives ya a nice, warm fuzzy feeling doesn't it. Maybe Starkey will send out a new ops bulletin limiting our duty times to 10 hours or less. OH, sorry, I think I am sleep deprived.

Here's the study below (partial):

After staying awake for 24 hours straight, a person will be about as impaired as if he had had enough alcohol to be legally drunk in most states, a study says.


Australian researchers tested 40 people to create a "blood alcohol equivalent'' for different levels of impairment from sleeplessness.

In one experiment, participants stayed awake for 28 hours.



In the other test, they drank alcohol every half hour until they reached a blood alcohol concentration of 0.10 percent. That's the drunken-driving standard in most American states.

Every half hour, the subjects took a computerized test of hand-eye coordination.

Results showed that after 24 hours of sleeplessness, participants were about as impaired as they were at the 0.10 percent level of blood alcohol. After 17 hours, they were about as impaired as they were with an alcohol level of 0.05 percent, which many Western countries define as legally drunk, the researchers said. The State of New Jersey has now made any injury crash involving fatigue, a felony.
 
may seem funny, but it the truth. did a human factors course thru ERAU , learnt all 'b out it .. .hic;)
 
I want to be in a study about being drunk and sleep-deprived all at the same time.

But it figures the Aussies came up with this though...a large portion of the populace is involved in a perpetual, ongoing study about drinking compared to.....well, compared to just about everything!
 
Is that why they call everyone, "mate"...they're too drunk to remember peoples names?
 
Hawkered said:
Is that why they call everyone, "mate"...they're too drunk to remember peoples names?

Having known and hung out with my share, I'd have to answer "pretty much".

And my response is in no way meant be critical....I'd be drinking a lot too if I spent my life hanging off the bottom of the world like a bat.
 
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minimums said:
I just saw a story on the local news about driving a car after being awake for 17 hours or more.

In this study, they concluded that for adults 25-78 years old, being awake for 17 hours was equivalent to having a blood-alcohol level of .05. After 24 hours, it increased to .10.

So, we NORMALLY work a 14 hour day, wake up an hour or so before our show time and then, after we check in the hotel, get dinner, take a shower, talk to the wife and watch a little t.v., you are almost (physically & mentally), legally drunk.

Kinda gives ya a nice, warm fuzzy feeling doesn't it. Maybe Starkey will send out a new ops bulletin limiting our duty times to 10 hours or less. OH, sorry, I think I am sleep deprived.

Here's the study below (partial):

After staying awake for 24 hours straight, a person will be about as impaired as if he had had enough alcohol to be legally drunk in most states, a study says.


Australian researchers tested 40 people to create a "blood alcohol equivalent'' for different levels of impairment from sleeplessness.

In one experiment, participants stayed awake for 28 hours.



In the other test, they drank alcohol every half hour until they reached a blood alcohol concentration of 0.10 percent. That's the drunken-driving standard in most American states.

Every half hour, the subjects took a computerized test of hand-eye coordination.

Results showed that after 24 hours of sleeplessness, participants were about as impaired as they were at the 0.10 percent level of blood alcohol. After 17 hours, they were about as impaired as they were with an alcohol level of 0.05 percent, which many Western countries define as legally drunk, the researchers said. The State of New Jersey has now made any injury crash involving fatigue, a felony.


I did something like this over the summer one year in high school. Kind of a stupid story but I would develop the worst insomnia; as a kid I always had it. One night midsummer I stayed up all night...and all day and then that next evening DROVE to play an American Legion baseball game about an hour away. Didn't have a drop of alcohol, but I felt so weird, goofy, sleepy, all over the road, even after a bladder buster of coffee, a smarter guy would have bagged it and gone home. Not I...I started the game and finished with 3 errors and went 0-5....such a bonehead.
 
Thanks for the info guys. From now on I am going to skip the Budweiser and just stay awake. You have no idea how much money this is going to save me. haha
 
Lol

Way2Broke said:
Thanks for the info guys. From now on I am going to skip the Budweiser and just stay awake. You have no idea how much money this is going to save me. haha

HaHa! Now, if I could just find a study about cigarettes and masterbation.

If only I would stop coughing and could find my glasses:D
 

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