SortStack #3063 — 2034-10-28

By duration · Order from shortest to longest.

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.
Half-time in a football (soccer) match 15 min

The break exists partly thanks to early English schools with different rules — teams switched codes at the interval when playing each other.
The world's longest scheduled flight, Singapore to New York 19 h

The route covers about 15,300 km. The aircraft is configured with no economy class at all — partly so passengers survive the experience.
The Apollo 11 mission, launch to splashdown 8.1 days

Of the whole voyage, Armstrong and Aldrin spent barely 22 hours on the lunar surface — and only about two and a half walking on it.
How long the Parthenon has been standing 2.5K years

It survived largely intact for over 2,000 years — until 1687, when a Venetian shell hit the gunpowder the Ottomans had stored inside.
The age of the Lascaux cave paintings 17K years

Four teenagers and a dog named Robot found the caves in 1940 — visitor breath damaged the art so badly that today tourists see a replica.