SortStack #1611 — 2030-11-06
By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.
- A manatee cruising 4.3 km/h
Manatees are gentle plant-eaters so buoyant they use their heavy bones as ballast to keep from floating up.
- An electric scooter 25 km/h
Shared e-scooters exploded across cities in just a few years, becoming a common sight on sidewalks worldwide.
- A koala on the run 30 km/h
Koalas sleep up to 22 hours a day because their eucalyptus diet is so low in energy and mildly toxic.
- A running gray wolf 57 km/h
Wolves can travel over 30 kilometres in a single day while hunting across their vast territories.
- A bullet train at full speed 330 km/h
Japan's bullet trains have a near-perfect safety record, with average delays measured in seconds, not minutes.
- A missile warhead on re-entry 24K km/h
An intercontinental missile arcs into space before plunging back down, its warhead glowing from the friction.