SortStack #1387 — 2030-03-27

By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.

1. A honeybee in flight 22 km/h

   Bees communicate the direction of flowers by dancing, encoding distance and angle in their waggling moves.

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 gray wolf 57 km/h

   Wolves can travel over 30 kilometres in a single day while hunting across their vast territories.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. The Earth orbiting the Sun 107K km/h

   We are all hurtling around the Sun fast enough to cross between two cities in a single second, yet we feel nothing.

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