What's heavier, a skyscraper or an ocean cruise liner?
a flying fox or a walking fox?
the Eiffel Tower or a drag line excavator?
a mig 17 fighter jet or an elephant seal?
a Sperm Whale or the paint on the Eiffel Tower?
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| Oasis Of The Seas |
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| Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) |
Many of these numbers come from cable TV, but are verified or BUSTED with a Smithsonian book on animals, Car&Driver, Road&Track, NASA, Airliners.net, Motorcyclist Magazine, Cycle World, and many more resources. Some of these resorces are independent web sites dedicated to a particular item, such as the Big Muskie excavator. However, not all numbers are confirmed or denied, such as the average American airline passenger. Some numbers are so well documented, they are appear "everywhere", such as the Little Boy and Fat Man nukes dropped on Japan. Even so, the numbers vary! So, I either picked an average or a maximum.
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| Fennec Fox |
2 grams Bee Hummingbird (lightest)
5 grams smallest bats
19 grams Giant Hummingbird (largest, heaviest)
28.35 grams = 1 ounce
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| Flying Fox |
4 ounces eastern chipmunk
16 ounces = 1 pound
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| Mig 17 at Dayton Air Show 2013 |
1 pound Columbia Basin Pygmy Rabbit
1.6 pounds eastern grey squirrel
3.25 pounds Fennec fox, Blanford's fox
3.5 pounds Indian Flying Fox (heaviest bat)
5.5 pounds Great Horned Owl, Snowy Owl
7 pounds Madamoiselle Crane (smallest crane)
7.75 pounds Sand Cat (smallest)
14 pounds Bald Eagle, Golden Eagle
15 pounds European hare, arctic hare
20 pounds Harpy Eagle
22 pounds Common Turkey
24 pounds Red Fox
35 pounds Coyote
44 pounds Kori bustard (one of the largest flying birds)
77 pounds Eurasian beaver
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| Southern Elephant Seal Why are animals so heavy? Scroll to the end to see why. |
115 pounds roof glass on Porsche 911 Targa
130 pounds Grey Wolf
190 pounds average American airline passenger
200 pounds Red Kangaroo, Mountain Lion (cougar)
250 pounds dirt bike, green anaconda (heaviest snake)
280 pounds Giant panda
346 pounds Ostrich (heaviest flightless bird)
430 pounds sport motorcycle
460 pounds Eastern Gorilla
550 pounds male Lion
660 pounds Siberian Tiger, American Black Bear
800 pounds Great Hammerhead shark
860 pounds California Sea Lion
1000 pounds Moose, horse, heart of blue whale
1100 pounds Bottlenose Dolphin
1200 pounds Boss Hoss v-8 powered motorcycle
1850 pounds Smart Car
1950 pounds Honda Insight
2000 pounds = 1 ton
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| Big Muskie drag line excavator |
1 ton Saltwater Crocodile, Nile Crocodile
1 ton Bison, Bald Eagle's nest, Manta Ray
1.1 tons Brown Bear, Polar Bear (before global warming), Cessna 170 mtow
1.25 tons Titanoboa (largest snake fossil)
1.5 tons Toyota Prius and midsized cars
1.65 tons Samson, heaviest horse
1.7 tons Giraffe
2 tons big sedan, midsized pickup truck, minivan
2.25 tons Walrus, Chevy Blazer, Great White shark
3 tons van, large SUV, large pickup truck
3.5 tons Hummer H1 and H2
4 tons Ford Excursion
5 tons P-51D Mustang fully loaded
5 tons Blue Stones at Stonehenge
5.5 tons Southern Elephant Seal
5.5 tons piston + connecting rod in Wartsilla engine of Cosco Long Beach cargo ship
6.7 tons Mig 17 mtow
7.75 tons African Elephant
8.5 tons F-86 Sabre mtow
10 tons Cap Stones at Stonehenge
11 tons Killer Whale
11 tons 3.6 meter ESO mirror at Las Silla
11.25 tons A-4 Skyhawk mtow
11.75 tons Whale Shark
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| Dynapac cc722 Roller weighs almost as much as the huge Dragon Dreams Airship |
17 tons Dynapac CC722 Roller
18 tons Dragon Dreams Airship
23 tons 8.2 meter ESO VLT mirror at La Silla
26.1 tons Hitachi tree cutter/stripper
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| The water load of the Martin Mars weighs as much as the B-17 Flying Fortress |
30 tons Martin Mars water bomber's load of water
33 tons Humpback Whale
40 tons Stainless steel on Chrysler Building
40 tons Sarsen (vertical) Stones at Stonehenge
45 tons rail car mover (tug boat for trains)
50 tons Martin Mars water bomber (empty)
55 tons bucket on Busirus Erie excavator
55 tons Supersaurus dinosaur
60 tons paint on Eiffel Tower
63 tons Sperm whale
67 tons smart bomb load on B-1 bomber
67.5 tons B-29 Superfortress mtow
70 tons weight the Busirus Eerie bucket can hold
71 tons P+H 4100 excavator
87 tons Boeing 737 mtow
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| Eiffel Tower |
100 tons male blue whale
102 tons Space Shuttle with re-entry payload
200 tons female blue whale (heaviest whale)
220 tons B1-B supersonic bomber fully loaded
244 tons Cleopatra's Needle
250 tons C-17 Globemaster mtow
300 tons crankshaft in Wartsilla engine of Cosco Long Beach cargo ship
320 tons load of Komatsu 930-E dump truck
400 tons Corning Asahi smokestack
400 tons Stainless steel on the Burj Kalifa
432 tons KVLY TV mast
455 tons Boeing 747 mtow
650 tons Airbus A380 mtow, Stratolaunch
660 tons Antonov An225 mtow (heaviest plane)
700 tons Christ The Redeemer statue in Rio De Janeiro
720 tons Mass damper (iron ball) in Taipei 101 skyscraper
800 tons Komatsu PC800 excavator
837 tons Dallas Cowboys Stadium moveable roof panel
900 tons Stainless steel on the St. Louis Gateway Arch
1,000 tons Daily water supply of the Burj Khalifa
1,000 tons roof of Dallas Cowboys Stadium
1,200 tons Tuned Mass Damper (TMD) of Shanghai Tower
2,245 tons Space Shuttle with fuel tank & solid rocket boosters
3,000 tons giant sequoia, NASA crawler truck
3,100 tons Saturn 5 rocket (to the Moon)
3,200 tons each arch at Dallas Cowboys Stadium
3,500 tons Bucyrus Erie drag-line excavator
4,000 tons Egyptian 40 warship
5,500 tons Big Brutus excavator
7,000 tons Port Kembla copper smelting smokestack, Australia
7,300 tons steel in Eiffel Tower
9,500 tons Phoenix Cardinals moving football field
10,000 tons Rialto Bridge in Venice
10,100 tons Eiffel Tower total weight
14,000 tons Big Muskie drag line excavator
14,000 tons MV Fairplayer cargo ship's cargo
15,650 tons Bagger 293, aka Man Takraf RB293 bucket wheel excavator
16,000 tons Estelle Maersk cargo ship's cargo
17,000 tons several hours of Bucyrus Erie's earth moving
20,000 tons TNT equivalent of each WWII nuke
30,000 tons Anchor of Trans America building, San Francisco, CA
40,000 tons Meteorites striking Earth annually
42,000 tons Beijing National Stadium "bird's nest"
44,000 tons Humber Bridge's road surface (7th longest suspension bridge)
52,310 tons Titanic
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| Titanic vs. modern cruise liner |
55,000 tons cargo of MV Paul R. Tregurtha cargo ship
72,000 tons Cosco Long Beach cargo ship
95,000 tons USS Ronald Reagan Nimitz Class aircraft carrier
110,000 tons Carnival Freedom ocean liner
150,000 tons Anchor of each tower of Golden Gate Bridge
173,000 tons Estelle Maersk cargo ship deadweight
220,000 tons Oasis Of The Sea cruise ship
222,500 tons Willis Tower (formerly Sears Tower) Chicago
287,300 tons Roman Colosseum's outer wall of travertine and iron clamps
832,000 tons Shanghai Tower (6,500 tons x 128 floors = 832,000 tons)
880,000 tons just the concrete in the Burj Khalifa, Dubai, UAE
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| Sperm Whale in 1913 with whalers |
1.5 million tons conventional bombs dropped on Nazis in WWII
6 million tons Great Pyramid of Giza
6.6 million tons Hoover Dam
20 million tons TNT equivalent of a modern nuke
130 million tons water per second of Antarctic Circumpolar Current
700 million tons hydrogen burned per second by the sun
75 million tons Three Gorges Dam concrete (concrete only, 1 billion cu ft)
7 billion tons particles per second shot out from the Sun's corona
<1 billion="" cu="" feet="" p=""> 115 billion tons water entering Bay Of Fundy per tide
12 trillion tons all the water in the atmosphere
5.6 quadrillion tons Earth's atmosphere in 2008
81 quintillion tons The Moon
Why are animals so heavy? Because animals are mostly water, and water is 1000 kilograms per cubic meter. And a thousand kilograms is 2200 pounds! If there's a creature the size of a cubic yard, it will weigh around 1650 pounds. A big southern elephant seal can hit 5.5 tons if it's 5 cubic meters, which is a meter wide, a meter tall, and 5 meters long (16.4 feet).
Why does the P-51 Mustang weigh less, despite it's 32 foot length and 37 foot wingspan? Well, it's got a lot of air inside that space, and air is more like 1.2 kilograms per cubic meter, a whopping 833 times less dense. And gasoline is 6 pounds per gallon, while water is 8.34 pounds, so a wing full of fuel is probably less dense than water, despite the fact aluminum is about 2.5 times as dense as water.
This is why your car can be swept away by a flood that is only a couple feet deep. Two feet of water times the 17 foot length of a large car times the 6 foot width is 204 cubic feet. This "foot print" of water weighs 12,718 pounds. That's 3.4 times heavier than a typical 3700 pound large sedan. Imagine a 100 pound girl getting in the way of a 340 pound sumo wrestler. Addio ragazza!
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