SortStack #2548 — 2033-05-31

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A western honeybee worker 100 mg

   To make one jar of honey, a hive's bees collectively fly a distance equal to about three orbits of the Earth.

2. A sheet of A4 printer paper 5 g

   A-series paper is metric by design: every size is exactly half the one above it, all sharing the same elegant proportions.

3. A one-euro coin 7.5 g

   Its two-metal design is not just style — the distinct layers give vending machines an electromagnetic signature to verify.

4. ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic computer 27 t

   Its 17,468 vacuum tubes filled a huge room in 1945. The phone in your pocket is literally billions of times faster.

5. The steel arch of the Sydney Harbour Bridge 39K t

   The arch rises and falls up to 18 cm with temperature swings; locals affectionately call the bridge 'the Coathanger'.

6. 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.

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