SortStack #1078 — 2029-05-22

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. An unfed female mosquito 2.5 mg

   After a full blood meal a mosquito can double or even triple her weight — and still fly away with the loot.

2. A single grain of long-grain rice 25 mg

   Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and farmers cultivate over 100,000 distinct varieties of it.

3. A full deck of 52 playing cards 94 g

   Shuffle properly and you have almost certainly created an ordering of the deck no human in history has ever seen before.

4. An adult brown rat 350 g

   Rats emit ultrasonic giggles when tickled and come back for more — research that helped earn an Ig Nobel Prize.

5. An adult male Asian elephant 4 t

   You can tell it from its African cousin by the much smaller ears and the twin domes on its forehead.

6. A fully loaded Triple-E class container ship 250K t

   It hauls around 18,000 containers with a crew of only about 22 — fewer people than a fast-food restaurant shift.

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