SortStack #3080 — 2034-11-14

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. 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.

2. An adult male grizzly bear 270 kg

   Before hibernation a grizzly can pack on more than a kilogram of fat per day, entering the den far heavier than in spring.

3. An adult male orca 5 t

   Orcas are actually the largest species of dolphin, and each pod hunts with dialects and techniques passed down like culture.

4. 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.

5. An adult male sperm whale 45 t

   Its clicks reach about 230 decibels — the loudest animal sound on Earth — and a third of its body is one giant sonar-focusing nose.

6. A Space Shuttle orbiter, empty on the runway 78 t

   Returning from orbit, the shuttle was a glider with no engines for a second try — every landing had to work the first time.

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