SortStack #2436 — 2033-02-08

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. An adult male Asian elephant 4 t

   You can tell it from its African cousin by the much smaller ears and the twin domes on its forehead.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. The RMS Titanic 52K t

   Each of her giant anchors needed a team of 20 horses to haul through the streets of Belfast to the shipyard.

6. The Empire State Building 331K t

   Built in just 410 days during the Depression, it sat so empty at first that New Yorkers dubbed it the 'Empty State Building'.

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