Timescales

[Darvince]

1 second - that was fast
10 seconds - ttt waiting *done*
1 minute - a pretty good amount
10 minutes - TOO LONG TO WAIT
1 hour - WAYYY TOO LONG TO WAIT
10 hours - how long i'm supposed to sleep? that's a while
1 day - ok, go to job/school, go home, and sleep.
1 week - ok, free time on either end and work in the middle
10 weeks - pretty long time
1 year - one year, i get a birthday once per these
10 years - oooh ten birthdays. and i think this is how often they update school textbooks.
100 years - the longest lived man on earth
1000 years - a hell of a lot of history
10000 years - Young earth creationists: IMPOSSIBLA! Other people: uhh, timespan of modern human race?
100,000 years - Young earth creationists: IMPOSSIBLA! Other people: homo erectus
1000,000 years - Young earth creationists: IMPOSSIBLA! Other people: australopithecus
10,000,000 years - Young earth creationists: IMPOSSIBLA! Other people: uhhh
100,000,000 years - Young earth creationists: IMPOSSIBLA! Other people: dinosaur
1000,000,000 years - Young earth creationists: wtf Other people: some... bacteria?
10,000,000,000 years - Young earth creationists: wtf Other people: life of universe
100,000,000,000 years - Young earth creationists: wtf Other people: too long
1000,000,000,000 (10^12) years - Young earth creationists: wtf Other people: too long
10,000,000,000,000 (10^13) years - Young earth creationists: wtf Other people: too long
100,000,000,000,000 (10^14) years - Young earth creationists: wtf Other people: wtf
1000,000,000,000,000 (10^15) years - Young earth creationists: wtf Other people: wtf
10,000,000,000,000,000 (10^16) years - Young earth creationists: WTF Other people: wtf
100,000,000,000,000,000 (10^17) years - Young earth creationists: WTF Other people: wtf
1000,000,000,000,000,000 (10^18) years - Young earth creationists: WTF Other people: wtf
10,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10^19) years - Young earth creationists: WTF Other people: wtf
100,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10^20) years - Young earth creationists: WTF Other people: wtf
1000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (10^21) years - Young earth creationists: WTF Other people: WTF
etc. on forever

[vh]

eww years

use kiloseconds and gigaseconds etc.

[Darvince]

no one understands those silly kip

[smjjames]

You have 100,000 and 1,000,000 wrong, that should be Neanderthals (or Cro-Magnon) and Homo Erectus, respectively. Also, 200,000-100,000 is more like the lifespan of Homo Sapiens as a species, 10,000 should be development of agriculture and end of Ice Age.