SortStack #2913 — 2034-05-31
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 gray squirrel 19.5 km/h
Squirrels plant thousands of trees by accident, forgetting where they buried many of the nuts they hid.
- A racing snowmobile 190 km/h
Snowmobiles can cross frozen lakes so fast they sometimes skip right across patches of open water.
- The motorcycle land-speed record 640 km/h
Streamlined record bikes look like rockets on wheels, with the rider lying flat inside a sealed shell.
- 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.
- The X-15 rocket plane 7.3K km/h
The X-15 flew to the edge of space, and several of its pilots earned astronaut wings without leaving a runway.