What If You Could Stop Time?

What if you could stop time... for just ten seconds a day? You can walk through frozen rain, catch a falling teacup, and see a hummingbird's wings stand still. But there are rules. And one rainy Friday, ten seconds has to be enough. Every Nearly Possible story is built on real science, and the Reality Meter at the end scores how close it is to real life. Chapters 0:00 Ten seconds 0:27 What if you could stop time? 1:00 The three rules 1:29 Amazing... and awful 5:04 Nana June 6:15 Friday: the easy way out 6:58 Walking home in the rain 7:22 Ten seconds on the porch 8:36 Just barely enough 9:25 Five steps 9:52 A new red hat 10:21 Could this really happen? The real science in this story Raindrops fall at about 10 m/s and look like the top of a burger bun (NASA GPM, UW-Madison SSEC) GPS clocks run about 38 microseconds a day fast (Ohio State University) Hummingbirds beat their wings about 53 times a second (Chesapeake Bay Program) Slow-motion phones film 240 pictures a second; research cameras over a million 400 million years ago a day lasted about 21.5 hours, recorded in fossil corals (A Moment of Science) More than one in four older adults falls every year (National Safety Council) Dot, our black cat, hides once in this video. Did you find her? Tell us the timestamp. So what would YOU do with ten seconds a day? Tell us in the comments. Nearly Possible: what if stories that almost could happen. Written and directed by us, animated with code. #whatif #animation #stoptime