SortStack #1631 — 2030-11-26

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A large chicken egg 57 g

   An eggshell has up to 8,000 microscopic pores, letting the developing chick breathe right through the shell.

2. A liter of water 1 kg

   The kilogram was originally defined in the 1790s as the mass of exactly this much water — the tie was only fully broken in 2019.

3. An adult male orca 5 t

   Orcas are actually the largest species of dolphin, and each pod hunts with dialects and techniques passed down like culture.

4. A Space Shuttle orbiter, empty on the runway 78 t

   Returning from orbit, the shuttle was a glider with no engines for a second try — every landing had to work the first time.

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. General Sherman, the giant sequoia in California 1.3K t

   Earth's largest single tree by volume is still growing, adding roughly a good-sized ordinary tree's worth of wood every year.

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