SortStack #3284 — 2035-06-06

By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.

1. A person walking 5 km/h

   The average person takes around 7,000 steps a day, walking the equivalent of several times around Earth in a lifetime.

2. A housefly in flight 6.8 km/h

   A housefly tastes with its feet, so it can decide whether something is food the moment it lands on it.

3. A honeybee in flight 22 km/h

   Bees communicate the direction of flowers by dancing, encoding distance and angle in their waggling moves.

4. A running roadrunner 32 km/h

   Real roadrunners prefer sprinting to flying and can kill rattlesnakes, far from the cartoon's gentle dodging.

5. A racing snowmobile 190 km/h

   Snowmobiles can cross frozen lakes so fast they sometimes skip right across patches of open water.

6. A missile warhead on re-entry 24K km/h

   An intercontinental missile arcs into space before plunging back down, its warhead glowing from the friction.

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