SortStack #1498 — 2030-07-16

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. An adult red fox 5.2 kg

   Red foxes may use Earth's magnetic field to aim their famous pouncing dives — they prefer striking toward the northeast.

2. An adult male African lion 190 kg

   A lion's roar can be heard up to 8 km away, thanks to uniquely flat, square-shaped vocal folds.

3. A Tesla Model 3 1.8 t

   Around a quarter of the car's entire mass is its battery pack, mounted in the floor for a racing-car center of gravity.

4. Big Ben, the Great Bell of Westminster 13.8 t

   Big Ben is the bell, not the tower — and it cracked within months of entering service in 1859; the odd tone is the crack.

5. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, fully fueled on the launch pad 549 t

   More than 95% of that is propellant; the reusable first-stage booster lands weighing almost nothing by comparison.

6. The Empire State Building 331K t

   Built in just 410 days during the Depression, it sat so empty at first that New Yorkers dubbed it the 'Empty State Building'.

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