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The Brakes That Stop a 1,000 MPH Bloodhound SSC
cartechboy writes: "The problem: How do you stop the 1,000 mph Bloodhound SSC? The solution: Apparently you use steel rotors from AP Racing, which managed to absorb 4.6 kilowatts of energy on a test stand without failing although the Bloodhound team hasn't spun them up to the full 10,000 rpm just yet. During testing, a set of carbon rotors from a jet fighter shattered under the stress during a half-speed, 5,000-rpm test, thus the team switched to steel rotors. It's like stopping a bus from 160 mph on a wet road. That's how the engineers behind the Bloodhound SSC—the British land-speed record car designed to break the 1,000-mph barrier—described the task of stopping their creation once it's finished breaking the sound barrier. We'll have to wait to see if the steel rotors can handle the full 10,000 rpm run, but until then, it looks like steel is stronger than carbon when it comes to some instances."
Hey dipshit, "strength" is a precise term in materials science. Could you software clowns keep your autisitc yaps shut when you're out of your depth?
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Fucking Asperger's nitwits who like the sound of their own "genius" voices. Shut the hell up moron.
"Being so much heavier/denser, there are that many more particles to wear away."
What the fuck does that even mean, nippledick?