worlds fastest

[E_SolSi]

these are from the March 2003 issue of Wired

fastest man on earth (running) -- Tim Montgomery -- 2002 -- 100 meters in 9.78 seconds

fastest men in the air -- Al Joersz and George Morgan (SR-71 Blackbird) -- 1976 -- 2,193 mph

fastest man on land -- Andy Green (Thrust SSC) -- 1997 -- 763.03 mph

fastest man on water -- Ken Warby (Spirit of Australia) -- 1978 -- 317.60 mph

fastest men in space -- Tom Stafford, John Young, and Gene Ceran (Apollo 10) -- 1969 -- 28,547 mph

fastest RC car -- RC 10L30 -- 2001 -- 111 mph

fastest man-made object -- Voyager 1 -- 38,518 mph

fastest particle accelerator -- CERN's Large Hadron Collider -- to be completed in 2005 -- will accelerate hydrogen particles to 14,500miles per second (52,200,000 mph)

fastest computer -- Earth Simulator -- 5,120 CPUs linked by 1,700 miles of cable -- turned on in 2002 -- 35,800,000,000,000 (35.8 trillion) floating point operations per second



most of you probly dont give a fuck... but i thought some of them were kinda cool

 

[Domeskilla]

very interesting facts.

 

[jeffie7]

fastest RC car -- RC 10L30 -- 2001 -- 111 mph


maybe in its class =)

 

[hcivic.com]

holly shit that is a fast car

 

[BodyDroppedNikes]

i coulda sworn that an SR-71 Blackbird set a world record on its last flight a few years ago when they retired them?? i saw one in Huntsville, Alabama 2 years ago at NASA's Space Camp. they are really badass planes. they are one of my favorite plames....F-14 Tomcat is my other fave

 

[asmallsol]

I have a vid of a rc car going 200mph. Go on kazaa and look up 200mph rc car.

 

[BigJ]

Yeah, they a SR-71 Blackbird at the Seattle Aerospace Museum. It is awesome if you see it in person. THey have tons of stuff their because of boeing. My Great uncle flew the SR-71 Black bird back in the day, and the stealth b2 bomber a few years ago. He was a test pilot for years.

Personally, my fav is the f117a stealth.

 

[phunky.buddha]

Originally posted by TrailorParkPimp@Jun 25 2003, 10:57 PM
i coulda sworn that an SR-71 Blackbird set a world record on its last flight a few years ago when they retired them?? i saw one in Huntsville, Alabama 2 years ago at NASA's Space Camp. they are really badass planes. they are one of my favorite plames....F-14 Tomcat is my other fave

Yup, the SR-71 is a sweet plane. I'm sure that's the highest uh... "non-classified" speed that they'll publish.



The F-14 is also one of my faves. It's just a badass flying tank.

 

[E_SolSi]

the 200 mph cars are tether cars.... not really RC (radio controlled) its just attatched to a wire and whipping around a circle... i guess thats why they dont count for the RC record

saw the video ... very impressive

 

[asmallsol]

That "wire" was it's fuel line. They consome so much fuel to even get close to 200mph. The amount of fuel they use to reach that would weigh that thing down tremendously and it would never get close to that kind of speed.

 

[98integrals]

Originally posted by Slammed89Integra@Jun 25 2003, 11:05 PM
Yeah, they a SR-71 Blackbird at the Seattle Aerospace Museum. It is awesome if you see it in person. THey have tons of stuff their because of boeing. My Great uncle flew the SR-71 Black bird back in the day, and the stealth b2 bomber a few years ago. He was a test pilot for years.

Personally, my fav is the f117a stealth.

sr-71 is a badass plane. the f-14 is old, fat, and imo ugly... but still sweet, f117 is ok... but the f-22 raptor is the shit... and the x35b ownz that..
more x35b stuff <--video

while we are doing records... the x35 was the first plane to ever take off, brake the sound barrier and then make a vertical landing all in the same flight

edit-

if i remember correctly the fastest "plane" was actually the x-15. Mach 8 ... but it was done in the VERY outermost layer of the atmosphere.

 

[Loco Honkey]

Originally posted by JDMilan@Jun 26 2003, 12:40 AM
I wonder if you can swap the turbine(ro whatever) you know the T876bba series into the F14 in order to enhance it's top end....hmmmmmmmmmmm

Naw man... all you need is NAWWZZZ!!!

 

[JDMilan]

I wonder if you can swap the turbine(ro whatever) you know the T876bba series into the F14 in order to enhance it's top end....hmmmmmmmmmmm

 

[Slo86GT]

fastest computer -- Earth Simulator -- 5,120 CPUs linked by 1,700 miles of cable -- turned on in 2002 -- 35,800,000,000,000 (35.8 trillion) floating point operations per second

Uh... this isn't a joke is it? Holy shit, that sounds like a Matrix in the works to me...

Either that or it sounds like the "Deep Thought" or whatever it was called from the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy.

 

[E_SolSi]

heres the little blurb about it

Fastest Computer: Earth Simulator

This room may look like the set of a '70s sci-fi flick, but its contents are state of the art. Japan's Earth Simulator, a collection of 5,120 CPUs linked by 1,700 miles of cable, was turned on in 2002 and runs 35.8 trillion floating-point operations per second. That's five times faster than its nearest rival, IBM's ASCI Q, and the rest of the top five American supercomputers combined. Dubbed Computenik in honor of the thunder-stealing Sputnik, the $400 million number-cruncher collects data from around the globe to predict planetary changes like el Niño, earthquakes, and global warming.

 

[phunky.buddha]

Originally posted by 98integrals@Jun 25 2003, 11:54 PM
if i remember correctly the fastest "plane" was actually the x-15. Mach 8 ... but it was done in the VERY outermost layer of the atmosphere.

Very true- but the speed records are typically split up according to induction type though. The X-15 isn't an "air breather" so it's not in the same class as the SR-71. You can't compare the two.

 

[posol]

Originally posted by E_SolSi@Jun 26 2003, 02:27 AM
the $400 million number-cruncher collects data from around the globe to predict planetary changes like el Niño, earthquakes, and global warming.

what a fucking waste.

that should be a porn or kazaa server

 

[kyleirwin]

Originally posted by pissedoffsol+Jun 26 2003, 04:37 AM-->

E_SolSi

@Jun 26 2003, 02:27 AM
the $400 million number-cruncher collects data from around the globe to predict planetary changes like el Niño, earthquakes, and global warming.

what a fucking waste.

that should be a porn or kazaa server

 

[Slo86GT]

Hell yes. I'd pay $100/year for a t-1 speed direct connection to that bitch! Now all we need is 4 million other people to do the same, and we could buy that thing in a year!