Lets multiply all these durations by a billion:

Magnitudes:

## Minute:
    L1 cache reference                  0.5 s         One Heart Beat (0.5 s)
    Branch mispredict                   5 s           Yawn
    L2 cache reference                  7 s           Long Yawn
    Mutex lock/unlock                   25 s          ?

## Hour:
    Main memory reference               100 s         Brushing your teeth
    Compress 1K bytes with Zippy        50 min        One episode of a TV show (including ad breaks)

## Day:
    Send 2K bytes over 1 Gbps network   5.5 hr        Flight duration from Hawaii to Utah

## Week
    Read 1 MB sequentially from memory  2.9 days      A long weekend.
    Round trip within same datacenter   5.8 days      A medium vacation

## Year
    Disk seek                           16.5 weeks    ?
    Read 1 MB sequentially from disk    7.8 months    ?

## Decade
    Send packet CA->Netherlands->CA     4.8 years     ?