SortStack #1205 — 2029-09-26

By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.

1. A swarming desert locust 14.5 km/h

   A single locust swarm can contain billions of insects and devour as much food in a day as tens of thousands of people.

2. A charging lion 83 km/h

   Lions are the only big cats that live in groups, and a male's roar can be heard up to eight kilometres away.

3. An ice hockey slapshot 178 km/h

   A slapshot flexes the stick like a spring, snapping stored energy into the puck for a brutal release.

4. A downhill speed skier 255 km/h

   Speed skiers tuck into an egg shape and wear airfoil helmets, accelerating faster than a free-falling skydiver.

5. An IndyCar on an oval 390 km/h

   IndyCars on superspeedways run flat-out for hours, with drivers enduring forces that strain the neck lap after lap.

6. NASA's X-43 scramjet 11.9K km/h

   The X-43 set an air-breathing speed record by burning fuel in a stream of air rushing through it many times faster than sound.

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