SortStack #3458 — 2035-11-27

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A single grain of long-grain rice 25 mg

   Rice feeds more than half the world's population, and farmers cultivate over 100,000 distinct varieties of it.

2. A FIFA regulation soccer ball 430 g

   World Cup balls are tested in wind tunnels; the 2010 'Jabulani' was so smooth that goalkeepers complained it swerved unpredictably.

3. An average adult human, averaged across the whole world 62 kg

   Researchers computed this from global census data; North America's average is about 20 kg heavier than Asia's.

4. A Steinway concert grand piano 480 kg

   Each Steinway Model D takes about a year to build and contains over 12,000 individual parts.

5. An M1 Abrams main battle tank 62 t

   Despite the bulk it tops 65 km/h, powered by a jet-style gas turbine engine that can run on almost any fuel.

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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