SortStack #3563 — 2036-03-11

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A sheet of A4 printer paper 5 g

   A-series paper is metric by design: every size is exactly half the one above it, all sharing the same elegant proportions.

2. A compact disc 15 g

   A CD's spiral data track is less than a micrometer wide and would stretch about five kilometers if unwound.

3. A 16-inch MacBook Pro 2.2 kg

   Apple's obsession with grams runs deep: the original 1989 Macintosh Portable weighed more than three of these.

4. A southern elephant seal bull 3 t

   Bulls can outweigh females several times over — among the most extreme size gaps of any mammal — and dive 1,500 m deep.

5. An adult male African bush elephant 6 t

   The largest land animal walks almost silently — its foot pads expand and absorb sound like cushioned trainers.

6. The Statue of Liberty 204 t

   Her copper skin is only about as thick as two pennies; the green color is a patina that took roughly 30 years to develop.

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