SortStack #1253 — 2029-11-13

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A common housefly 12 mg

   Houseflies beat their wings around 200 times per second, which produces their signature buzzing pitch near the note F.

2. A monarch butterfly 500 mg

   Despite weighing less than a paperclip, monarchs migrate up to 4,800 km from Canada to mountain forests in central Mexico.

3. A classic yellow American school bus 11 t

   The exact yellow is a legal standard from 1939, chosen because black lettering on it reads fastest in dim morning light.

4. ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer 27 t

   Its 17,468 vacuum tubes filled a huge room in 1945. The phone in your pocket is literally billions of times faster.

5. The Statue of Liberty 204 t

   Her copper skin is only about as thick as two pennies; the green color is a patina that took roughly 30 years to develop.

6. A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier 100K t

   A floating city of about 5,000 people, it can sail more than 20 years between refuelings of its nuclear reactors.

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