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Now we can remember those four things for about 10 to 20
seconds
unless we do something with it, unless we process it, unless we apply it to something, unless we talk to somebody about it.
In one study, we had people watch a brief video, just 46
seconds
long, about childhood poverty that served as a reminder of the needs of others in the world around them.
So let's look at a few
seconds
from this performance, where the robot listens to the human musician and improvises.
And as activists, we would take our Polaroid camera, we would take her picture, we would wait 90 seconds, and we would give her the photograph.
Within seconds, as if the panels have noticed the presence of the viewer, they appear to panic and sort of get into a strict symmetry.
Until finally, after about eight minutes and 40
seconds
or so, we are finally at exactly the right altitude, exactly the right speed, the right direction, the engine shut off, and we're weightless.
It was 3.5
seconds
between the bomb blasts in the Boston terrorist attack.
In 3.5 seconds, the criminals and cowards took Adrianne off the dance floor.
So if you were watching this whole thing from a hill, ideally, far away, what you'd see is a bright flash of light that would fade over a few seconds, followed by a blast wave spreading out, shredding trees and houses as it moves away from the stadium, and then eventually a mushroom cloud rising up over the ruined city.
After a free fall of four to five seconds, the body strikes the water at about 75 miles an hour.
But the research, and my experience, shows you only need about 30
seconds
with someone to tell if you click.
There were over four million views to this video; eight
seconds
long, no sound, thousands of comments; people saying, "Lizzie, please - please - just do the world a favor, put a gun to your head, and kill yourself."
What I love there is this universal law that, you know, you have 30
seconds
to fight it out and once it's yours, you get to keep it for the rest of the flight.
We watched it for a few seconds, and then it shot away incredibly quickly.
Western civilization has existed for a few
seconds.
Well, new research just came out 13
seconds
ago that shows a whole new approach to that and a new way to take glutathione.
Now today, I mean, you have a computer in your phone, but if you need 10,000 computers for a few
seconds
to do a complex search, you can access that for a second or two in the cloud.
I've got three
seconds.
Within about 10 seconds, the bloodstream carries a stimulant called nicotine to the brain, triggering the release of dopamine and other neurotransmitters including endorphins that create the pleasurable sensations which make smoking highly addictive.
Next, I'm going to say my frequency is 440 hertz, and I'm going to let time advance by two
seconds
through this operation.
It takes me
seconds
to pick out patterns here, but hours, days, to pick them out in ones and zeros.
We can go through every little detail of the binary information in seconds, as opposed to weeks, months, at this level.
I could spend weeks trying to find this in ones and zeros, but it takes me
seconds
to pick out a visual abstraction like this.
In seconds, we can pick out every pattern here.
Things that would take us weeks, months to find in ones and zeroes, are immediately apparent in some sort of visual abstraction, and as we continue to go through this and throw more and more information at it, what we find is that we're capable of processing billions of ones and zeros in a matter of
seconds
just by using our brain's built-in ability to analyze patterns.
Now that I know it's a photograph, I've got dozens of other binary translation techniques to visualize and understand that information, so in a matter of seconds, we can take this information, shove it through a dozen other visual translation techniques in order to find out exactly what we were looking at.
When
seconds
count, we've unlocked the means to stop the bad guys.
This means that as we go to sleep at night, all of us in the last 15
seconds
before we drift off to sleep, our final thought should be, godammit, I'm glad that Ireland exists.
And everybody in the last 15
seconds
before they drift off to sleep at night will say, "Gosh, I'm glad that person's country exists."
In a matter of seconds, I went from playing at the top to the bottom of my ability.
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