SortStack #2605 — 2033-07-27
By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.
- A garden snail 50 m/h
A snail can sleep for up to three years during droughts, sealing itself inside its shell until rain returns.
- A duck paddling on water 1.6 km/h
Ducks have no nerves or blood vessels in their feet, so they can paddle in icy water without feeling the cold.
- A wild boar running 45 km/h
Wild boars are spreading across the globe, rooting up so much soil they reshape entire ecosystems.
- 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.
- 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.
- NASA's Parker Solar Probe 692K km/h
The fastest human-made object ever, it slingshots around the Sun, dipping into the star's blazing outer atmosphere.