SortStack #1030 — 2029-04-04
By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.
- A slowly marching sand dune 20161.8 mm/year
Wind pushes desert dunes forward grain by grain, swallowing roads and even villages over the decades.
- A housefly in flight 6.8 km/h
A housefly tastes with its feet, so it can decide whether something is food the moment it lands on it.
- An electric scooter 25 km/h
Shared e-scooters exploded across cities in just a few years, becoming a common sight on sidewalks worldwide.
- A running roadrunner 32 km/h
Real roadrunners prefer sprinting to flying and can kill rattlesnakes, far from the cartoon's gentle dodging.
- A running gray wolf 57 km/h
Wolves can travel over 30 kilometres in a single day while hunting across their vast territories.
- A tsunami across the open ocean 800 km/h
In deep water a tsunami is barely a ripple, racing as fast as a jet before rearing up near the shore.