SortStack #3115 — 2034-12-19

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A standard steel paperclip 1 g

   During WWII, Norwegians wore paperclips on their lapels as a quiet symbol of resistance against occupation.

2. A regulation golf ball 46 g

   The dimples — usually 300 to 500 of them — cut drag so effectively that a smooth ball would fly only about half as far.

3. A kiwi fruit 75 g

   Originally China's 'mihoutao', it was rebranded by New Zealand exporters in 1959 after their flightless national bird.

4. An average newborn human baby 3.4 kg

   Newborns arrive with about 300 bones; many fuse over the years down to the adult count of 206.

5. 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.

6. A Nimitz-class aircraft carrier 100K t

   A floating city of about 5,000 people, it can sail more than 20 years between refuelings of its nuclear reactors.

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