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But it's actually your brain running a complex series of calculations within a matter of seconds that's responsible for determining attraction.
Information first lands in short term memory, where it's available from anywhere from a few seconds to a couple of minutes.
In extreme contrast to the million year transformation of hydrogen to helium, the creation of the heaviest elements in a supernova takes place in only seconds.
Imagine an airplane flying one millimeter above the ground and circling the Earth once every 25 seconds while counting every blade of grass.
This is peak fishing in a few seconds.
Moments later, the buzz of the electric barrier stops for a few seconds, and you realize that Zara has escaped.
If your partitions are pretty balanced, dividing the books into 128 sub-lines of ten would take about seven rounds, or 8,960 seconds.
Sorting these sub-lines would add about 22 seconds each.
And guess who woke up? (Laughter) So the Panic Monster starts losing his mind, and a few seconds later, the whole system's in mayhem.
But if it gets exposed to the enzymes that reside in our bloodstream or our tissues, it degrades within seconds.
Unfortunately, The Money Charity says that in the UK right now, one person every five minutes and three seconds is either declared insolvent or bankrupt.
That's because the average length of a cinematic shot in the 1940s was 26 seconds, and now it's around six seconds.
About every five seconds, someone commits a selfie in Times Square.
In these seconds, your eyes are watching, left and right, left and right, and your brain wants those pictures to be identical.
It's got 920 million miles on the odometer, but it still runs great and reliably takes a photograph of the sky every 11 seconds.
And to give you a sense of the stimulus we are using, let me play 20 seconds from a story that we used, told by a very talented storyteller, Jim O'Grady.
Imagine making it free, so that anyone in the world can have access to all of this knowledge, and imagine using information technology so that you can update this content, improve it, play with it, on a timescale that's more on the order of seconds instead of years.
Instead of editions of a book coming out every two years, imagine them coming out every 25 seconds.
On average, a piece this size takes me about, as you can see, 10 seconds.
So instead we're going to do 93 years in 93 seconds or less.
NL: There goes seven more seconds.
The bank managers would indulge us for 30-45 seconds before calling security.
Or I find myself in a situation like this, where I check my email and I pull down to refresh, But the thing is that 60 seconds later, I'll pull down to refresh again.
Especially in those final seconds.
Digital money makes it so that I can pay someone around the world in seconds.
I'd like to show you guys 30 seconds of the best day of my life.
This is where it got even more amazing: within two seconds, I didn't know where I was standing.
It was moving for me, too; two seconds later, I had a lump in my throat.
And after a few seconds, it starts to bother me a little, and I said, "OK, that's enough now.
Here is a movie taken by an artistically inclined seal, giving us unprecedented insight into an underwater hunt deep in the Arctic, and the shot of this pollock prey just seconds before it gets devoured.
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