Nanoseconds

But even before you notice that an avalanche is racing towards you, the motion detectors built into your Life Bags Xtreme® automatically trigger rapid inflation so that in nanoseconds you are enveloped in a protective bubble stocked with supplies to last weeks. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It also means the judge of whatever contest we're about to enter has a 30-year visual library to compare our images against in nanoseconds before s/he yells "out." ❋ Unknown (2006)

It's easy to translate Naoya Hatakeyama's blast series as a critique of man's wanton destruction of nature and its capacity to do so in nanoseconds, undoing what has taken millions, even billions, of years to form. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Relative to the sun, Oort cloud objects are essentially stationary, but at the ship†™ s current velocity (over 300 million miles per hour), objects pass through the ship in nanoseconds. ❋ Unknown (2008)

None of that makes any economic sense, but the computers and the techies react in nanoseconds. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sandia's huge Z machine, which generates termperatures hottter than the sun, has turned water to ice in nanoseconds. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The life cycle of some news can be measured in nanoseconds. ❋ Dan (2007)

If this screwball was serious, let him hook up with my recently widowed ex-wife, he would change his mind about divorce measured in nanoseconds. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And not for distributing 'nanoseconds' to a load of people to illustrate why satelite transmissions can seem slow. ❋ Dagna (2009)

I still have a couple of "nanoseconds" from listening to Grace Hopper's lectures, once in the late 70s, and again in the early 80s. ❋ Unknown (2010)

How is an alarm going to detect "nanoseconds" of voltage fluctuation in that environment?

Ideas and words now whip clear around the world in nanoseconds. ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)