SortStack #1428 — 2030-05-07

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A single sesame seed 3 mg

   Sesame is one of humanity's oldest oil crops, domesticated in South Asia more than 3,000 years ago.

2. A AAA alkaline battery 11.5 g

   Despite the tiny package, a fresh AAA stores enough energy to hoist an adult human several meters into the air.

3. A compact disc 15 g

   A CD's spiral data track is less than a micrometer wide and would stretch about five kilometers if unwound.

4. A stick of butter 113 g

   US butter sticks come in two shapes: the stubby 'Western' stick exists because West Coast dairies bought different molds.

5. A Boeing 777-300ER airliner at maximum takeoff weight 351.5 t

   Each of its GE90 engines is so wide that a Boeing 737 fuselage could very nearly fit inside the cowling.

6. The supertanker Seawise Giant, fully loaded 650K t

   The longest ship ever built could not transit the Suez or Panama canals — or even the English Channel — when fully laden.

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