SortStack #3591 — 2036-04-08

By weight · Order from lightest to heaviest.

1. A single office staple 33 mg

   Heavier than a grain of rice — staples are solid steel wire, and a standard strip glues 210 of them together.

2. A western honeybee worker 100 mg

   To make one jar of honey, a hive's bees collectively fly a distance equal to about three orbits of the Earth.

3. A single kernel of corn 300 mg

   Each kernel is botanically a complete fruit, and a typical ear carries an even number of rows — most often sixteen.

4. A fully equipped fire engine 18 t

   Around 2,000 liters of onboard water account for a chunk of the heft — plus ladders, hoses, and hydraulic rescue tools.

5. General Sherman, the giant sequoia in California 1.3K t

   Earth's largest single tree by volume is still growing, adding roughly a good-sized ordinary tree's worth of wood every year.

6. A Saturn V rocket, fully fueled for a Moon launch 3K t

   Apollo crews rode atop a small warship's worth of kerosene, hydrogen, and oxygen — most of it burned within minutes.

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