SortStack #2535 — 2033-05-18

By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.

1. The drift of a tectonic plate 21.9 mm/year

   Plates move about as fast as your fingernails grow, yet over millions of years they have rearranged whole continents.

2. A car cruising the German autobahn 200 km/h

   Parts of Germany's autobahn have no speed limit, where ordinary sedans legally travel faster than racetracks allow elsewhere.

3. A peregrine falcon in a dive 410 km/h

   The peregrine is the fastest animal on Earth, diving so fast it has baffles in its nostrils to breathe.

4. A fired shotgun slug 1.9K km/h

   A shotgun slug is a single heavy projectile that turns a scattergun into a short-range, hard-hitting rifle.

5. The International Space Station in orbit 28K km/h

   The station circles Earth so fast its crew sees about 16 sunrises and sunsets every single day.

6. The Earth orbiting the Sun 107K km/h

   We are all hurtling around the Sun fast enough to cross between two cities in a single second, yet we feel nothing.

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