SortStack #2094 — 2032-03-03
By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.
- A slowly marching sand dune 20161.8 mm/year
Wind pushes desert dunes forward grain by grain, swallowing roads and even villages over the decades.
- A crawling baby 1.4 km/h
Babies often invent their own crawling styles, from the classic hands-and-knees to a one-legged commando shuffle.
- A mosquito in flight 2.4 km/h
Only female mosquitoes bite; they need a blood meal to develop their eggs, while males sip flower nectar.
- A wild boar running 45 km/h
Wild boars are spreading across the globe, rooting up so much soil they reshape entire ecosystems.
- Concorde at cruising speed 2.2K km/h
Concorde flew so fast that the friction heated its frame, stretching the whole plane several inches in flight.
- A meteor entering the atmosphere 50K km/h
Most shooting stars are no bigger than a grain of sand, burning up bright from sheer speed alone.