SortStack #2885 — 2034-05-03

By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.

1. A mosquito in flight 2.4 km/h

   Only female mosquitoes bite; they need a blood meal to develop their eggs, while males sip flower nectar.

2. A running roadrunner 32 km/h

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

3. A galloping wildebeest 92 km/h

   Over a million wildebeest migrate in a giant loop each year, a journey so vast it is visible from space.

4. Concorde at cruising speed 2.2K km/h

   Concorde flew so fast that the friction heated its frame, stretching the whole plane several inches in flight.

5. A missile warhead on re-entry 24K km/h

   An intercontinental missile arcs into space before plunging back down, its warhead glowing from the friction.

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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