This is why scientists advise against waking sleeping giants. A pissed-off giant will still be squashing you and stepping on you long after you have moved on to the next thing. They haven't. The impulse to stomp you and squish you may have originated long ago, but the feet and the fists are still coming down. There's no telling how long that can go on. Depends on how big a giant you pissed off. |
Scientists have computed the speed at which nerve impulses travel through the body. It's actually quite slow. If Lilliputians were our size, a creature like Gulliver could take a couple of hours to move his foot... it would take that long for impulses from the brain to reach the correct muscles to make the foot move.