One beat of fly’s wing (1/1,000 second) 0.001 seconds Flash of lightning (1/1,000 second) 0.001 seconds One beat of a hummingbird’s wing (80 times a second) 0.0125 seconds Mouse heartbeat (10.8 times a second) 0.09 seconds Blink of a human eye 0.33 seconds Human heartbeat 1.0 seconds Land speed record : car ThrustSSC travelling 1 km (0.62 miles) 2.9 seconds Record-breaking Jamaican athlete Asafa Powell to run 100 m (328 ft) 9.77 seconds Bullet train to travel 1 km (0.62 miles) 13.75 seconds Space shuttle to travel 100 km (62 miles) 15 seconds Light reaching Earth from the sun 497 seconds