SortStack #2276 — 2032-09-01

By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.

1. 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.

2. A honeybee in flight 22 km/h

   Bees communicate the direction of flowers by dancing, encoding distance and angle in their waggling moves.

3. A running roadrunner 32 km/h

   Real roadrunners prefer sprinting to flying and can kill rattlesnakes, far from the cartoon's gentle dodging.

4. A cheetah at full sprint 120 km/h

   A cheetah can go from a standstill to highway speed faster than most sports cars, but only for a few seconds.

5. A helicopter at top speed 290 km/h

   A helicopter's top speed is capped because the blade tips would approach the sound barrier and lose lift.

6. An F-22 Raptor at top speed 2.4K km/h

   The Raptor can supercruise, flying faster than sound without afterburners, sipping less fuel as it streaks along.

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