SortStack #3396 — 2035-09-26

By speed · Order from slowest to fastest.

1. A garden snail 50 m/h

   A snail can sleep for up to three years during droughts, sealing itself inside its shell until rain returns.

2. A crawling baby 1.4 km/h

   Babies often invent their own crawling styles, from the classic hands-and-knees to a one-legged commando shuffle.

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 galloping racehorse 88 km/h

   All thoroughbred racehorses descend from just three stallions imported to England centuries ago.

5. The SR-71 Blackbird 3.5K km/h

   The Blackbird leaked fuel on the ground because its panels only sealed once heat expanded them in flight.

6. A tank's sabot round 5.8K km/h

   A sabot round sheds a casing in flight, leaving a slim dart of dense metal that punches through armour.

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