SortStack #2891 — 2034-05-09

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. An unfed female mosquito 2.5 mg

   After a full blood meal a mosquito can double or even triple her weight — and still fly away with the loot.

2. 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.

3. A standard car tire, without the rim 10 kg

   About a quarter of a tire's mass is not rubber at all — it is steel belts and textile cord hidden inside the carcass.

4. An adult giant panda 110 kg

   Pandas spend up to 14 hours a day eating bamboo because they digest only about a fifth of what they swallow.

5. 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.

6. An M1 Abrams main battle tank 62 t

   Despite the bulk it tops 65 km/h, powered by a jet-style gas turbine engine that can run on almost any fuel.

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