SortStack #2965 — 2034-07-22
By duration · Order from shortest to longest.
- One human heartbeat at rest 798 ms
Your heart beats roughly 100,000 times a day and around 3 billion times in a lifetime, pumping enough blood to fill an Olympic pool several times over.
- An amber traffic light before it turns red 4 sec
Amber phases are tuned to road speed — typically 3 seconds in town and up to 6 on fast roads, calculated from braking distance physics.
- 'Logistics', the longest film ever made 35.7 days
The Swedish experimental film follows a pedometer's supply chain in reverse, in real time, from a Stockholm shop back to a Chinese factory.
- New Horizons' journey from Earth to Pluto 9.5 years
It left Earth as the fastest spacecraft ever launched — and Pluto was demoted from planet status just seven months into the trip.
- The filming of Richard Linklater's 'Boyhood' 11.4 years
The same cast reunited for a few days each year so the actors aged in real time — the lead grew from age six to eighteen on screen.
- How long the Hagia Sophia has been standing 1.5K years
Built in just five years under Justinian, it has since served as cathedral, mosque, museum, and mosque again across nearly 1,500 years.