SortStack #1156 — 2029-08-08

By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.

1. A mosquito in flight 2.4 km/h

   Only female mosquitoes bite; they need a blood meal to develop their eggs, while males sip flower nectar.

2. A running roadrunner 32 km/h

   Real roadrunners prefer sprinting to flying and can kill rattlesnakes, far from the cartoon's gentle dodging.

3. A running reindeer 80 km/h

   Reindeer eyes change colour with the seasons, turning blue in winter to see better in the dim Arctic light.

4. A speeding hovercraft 145 km/h

   A hovercraft floats on a cushion of trapped air, gliding equally well over water, land, ice and mud.

5. The winds of a violent tornado 480 km/h

   The strongest tornado winds ever measured can strip bark from trees and drive straw into solid wood.

6. The International Space Station in orbit 28K km/h

   The station circles Earth so fast its crew sees about 16 sunrises and sunsets every single day.

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