Land speed record

Just found this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_speed_record

WOW

A car that can break the sound barrier.. that's .. fast

 

Wow, thats crazy! I always thought it was that motorcycle bike that broke it. Watched something on television about it. Damn that is fast...

 

yeah.. I thought it was something like 500-600 km/h, but that's just crazy.. a car that can go faster than the regular airplane

 

yaps, it was a "car" with jet engines and afterburner...basically a rocket in wheels

 

I wanna see it to believe it. Is there any youtube video of this that you can share with all of us here ??

 

Fast? Thats like so fast I cant believe it! For a land vehicle its just insane! Great fix MG

 

Hopefully he did not have Firestone Explorer tires

This one looks like a fun ride too

 

That is amazing! At that speed it is a wonder the car did not fell apart.

 

heh there are to many g's in that ride. A human body probably won't survive the speed

 

G´s dont really much have to do with speed, is has to do with acceleration.

For example you can be going Mach5 and dont have any problems (the human body of course) but if you accelerate from 0 to Mach1 in a few seconds you´d probably die, because the acceleration was very high.

(air force) Jet pilots can sustain up to 9G, but more than that it´s "impossible" for the human body. 1G = 9.8m/s (basically 1G = 1times the force of gravity)

 

Not really a fan of these stuff but I think it is crazy and super fast where a car can break at that speed.

 

that's why I could never be a jet pilot, I'd probably pass out at 0.6G's

are roller coasters fast enough to be rated like that?

 

This happened about 6 years ago. There are probably videos somewhere. I remeber seeing it on the news.

And of course the car is a British design

 

I remember watching a program on TV, they said roller coasters are at 4-5 g or so and thats near the max untrained people can withstand without passing/pissing out

 

Man I miss TLC and DSC - we don't gots no cable anymore!
But then again we never watched it!

That sounds about right though. I think I prefer < 2G's for my coasters

 

Actually it was on National Geographic

I watch tv about once every two weeks heh

 

NG is stellar, we had that for a short while I think in Direct Tv but the DTV jacked their rates (big surprise) and tyhen we went to Dish but they didn't offer as good packages

of course now it's fox, abc, ...

have to check out NOVA on PBS!!!

 

The motorcycle record is separate, and I think it's somewhere between 300 and 400 miles per hour.