SortStack #3046 — 2034-10-11

By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.

1. A migrating monarch butterfly 8 km/h

   Monarchs migrate thousands of kilometres to the same forests their great-grandparents left, guided by instinct alone.

2. A running pig 17 km/h

   Pigs are smarter than dogs by many measures, able to learn their names and even play simple video games.

3. A Category 5 hurricane's winds 300 km/h

   A single mature hurricane can release more energy in a day than the world uses in electricity all year.

4. NASA's X-43 scramjet 11.9K km/h

   The X-43 set an air-breathing speed record by burning fuel in a stream of air rushing through it many times faster than sound.

5. The International Space Station in orbit 28K km/h

   The station circles Earth so fast its crew sees about 16 sunrises and sunsets every single day.

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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