SortStack #1051 — 2029-04-25

By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.

1. A person walking 5 km/h

   The average person takes around 7,000 steps a day, walking the equivalent of several times around Earth in a lifetime.

2. A migrating monarch butterfly 8 km/h

   Monarchs migrate thousands of kilometres to the same forests their great-grandparents left, guided by instinct alone.

3. A falling raindrop 34 km/h

   Raindrops are not teardrop-shaped; they flatten into tiny hamburger buns as they fall through the air.

4. A bullet train at full speed 330 km/h

   Japan's bullet trains have a near-perfect safety record, with average delays measured in seconds, not minutes.

5. A Bugatti Chiron at top speed 510 km/h

   The Chiron is electronically limited; unleashed, its tyres would tear themselves apart from the sheer forces.

6. The land-speed record car 1.2K km/h

   ThrustSSC became the first car to break the sound barrier, its twin jet engines kicking up a desert dust storm.

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