SortStack #2156 — 2032-05-04
By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.
- 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.
- An adult human brain 1.4 kg
It is about 2% of your body weight yet burns roughly 20% of your energy — mostly just keeping billions of neurons ready to fire.
- A classic yellow American school bus 11 t
The exact yellow is a legal standard from 1939, chosen because black lettering on it reads fastest in dim morning light.
- An adult male sperm whale 45 t
Its clicks reach about 230 decibels — the loudest animal sound on Earth — and a third of its body is one giant sonar-focusing nose.
- A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier 100K t
A floating city of about 5,000 people, it can sail more than 20 years between refuelings of its nuclear reactors.
- The Golden Gate Bridge 805K t
Its two main cables contain enough wire to circle the Earth three times, and painting crews never actually finish — they cycle forever.