SortStack #3319 — 2035-07-11

By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.

1. A giant tortoise 500 m/h

   Giant tortoises can live over 150 years, ambling through more than a century of slow, steady days.

2. A chicken foraging 3.6 km/h

   Chickens can recognise over a hundred individual faces, both other birds and the humans who feed them.

3. A cheetah at full sprint 120 km/h

   A cheetah can go from a standstill to highway speed faster than most sports cars, but only for a few seconds.

4. A speeding hovercraft 145 km/h

   A hovercraft floats on a cushion of trapped air, gliding equally well over water, land, ice and mud.

5. The winds of a violent tornado 480 km/h

   The strongest tornado winds ever measured can strip bark from trees and drive straw into solid wood.

6. A hypersonic missile 9.8K km/h

   Hypersonic weapons fly so fast and low they are extremely hard to track and intercept in time.

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