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Land Speed Record Broken: 0-6,400 in Six Seconds

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the faster-than-a-speeding-bullet dept.

linuxwrangler writes "Researchers at Holloman AFB have broken their own two decades old land speed record for rail vehicles. The rocket powered sled covered the 3 mile track in roughly 6 seconds. Preliminary numbers put the sled's speed at mach 8.6 or about 6,400 mph - it covered the last 1.8 miles in just 1.3 seconds. The previous record of 6,122 mph was set on Oct. 5, 1982. Other accounts are at the Alamogordo Daily News, the Denver Post, and CNN."

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  3. Re:Well Rounded Education by black+mariah · · Score: 1, Offtopic

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  4. Oh no by stalinvlad · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    There I was thinking:-"Blimey news NOT about another Linux Distro/*BSD release" and it turned into that dream I had about Charles the First crossing the Atlantic just at the outbreak of the civil war and becoming the first King Of America (Then follows 3 sets of 26 episode TV stuff, you know bearded blokes plotting evil deeds and speaking about...)

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