0:00.0	I think the answer to that is 13 seconds.
0:03.9	I'm not joking.
0:05.2	There was a French guy that was killed during the French Revolution,
0:11.6	and he was a scientist to the end,
0:12.9	and he wanted to know the answer to that question.
0:14.6	And so as his head was chopped off by the guillotine,
0:18.4	he decided he was just going to blink.
0:21.4	I have heard the blinking story, too, of the beheaded guy.
0:25.8	Like, how long can you talk to a severed head before it stops functioning?
0:32.8	I think, let me, I just, I just found it.
0:41.3	I think it's 30, no, 30 seconds, wow. So it's called the Lavoisier experiment.
0:45.3	So this guy in France, during the French Revolution,
0:50.3	during the reign of terror, he was like a scientist,
0:53.3	and he wanted to know stuff like that.
0:56.0	And he got sentenced to death via guillotine, and he's like, hey, bro, here's what I'm going
1:01.1	to do.
1:01.5	When they cut my head off, I'm just going to blink a lot.
1:04.4	And you just count how long I blink.
1:07.0	And this says 30 seconds.
1:10.0	It's a long time? Who did he ask?
1:11.6	Was it the executioner?
1:12.6	Or did he ask Robes Pierre?
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