SortStack #2944 — 2034-07-01
By duration · Order from shortest to longest.
- A camera speedlight flash firing at full power 1 ms
At low power settings, flash bursts get even shorter — down to around 1/30,000 of a second, fast enough to freeze a bursting balloon mid-pop.
- Jeff Bezos' first Blue Origin spaceflight, launch to landing 10.2 min
The 2021 flight carried both the oldest and youngest people to reach space at the time: 82-year-old Wally Funk and 18-year-old Oliver Daemen.
- An episode of The Simpsons, without adverts 22 min
The Simpsons is the longest-running scripted primetime series in US history — Bart has been ten years old for over three and a half decades.
- The film 'Gone with the Wind', with overture and intermission 4 h
Still the longest film ever to win Best Picture — and adjusted for inflation, it remains the highest-grossing film of all time.
- The construction of the Sagrada Família in Barcelona (so far) 143.9 years
Begun in 1882 and still unfinished, it only received an official building permit in 2019 — Gaudí said 'my client is not in a hurry'.
- The Romanov dynasty's rule over Russia 304 years
It began with a 16-year-old reluctantly accepting the throne in 1613 and ended 304 years later with Nicholas II's abdication in 1917.