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Bloodhound's 1,000 MPH Car Project Needs Money (theguardian.com)
AmiMoJo quotes the Guardian: Plans to build a British jet-powered car to speed at more than 1,000mph through the desert have hit quicksand, after the company behind the Bloodhound project entered administration. The dream of an ultra-fast car to break the land speed record led to the creation of Bloodhound Programme Ltd in 2007, with the idea of also engaging schools and students in engineering. Bloodhound has already built and tested a viable racing car to speeds of 200mph, but the project is in debt and needs to find £25m or face being wound up... Bloodhound said its programme had been a catalyst for research and development, as well as helping interest schoolchildren worldwide in science and engineering, with an associated educational campaign reaching more than 2 million children...
The planned car is a combination of jet, F1 car and spaceship that would cover the length of four and a half football pitches in a second.
The planned car is a combination of jet, F1 car and spaceship that would cover the length of four and a half football pitches in a second.
No, it doesn't.
I'm trying to figure out how to burn money less efficiently, aside from straight up burning it.
"Bloodhound has already built and tested a viable racing car to speeds of 200mph"
I think a couple rich guys in my neighborhood bought cars capable speeds of 200mph, with factory warranties.
How is the goal anything different than an existing rocket with wheels on its side?
High probability of crashing?
What does that translate to in either m/s, f/s or NFL fields per second.
The summary is confusing with multiple different numeric systems. MPH, Football Pitches, Pounds...
It's a huge jet turbine with wheels attached. Big fat hairy deal.
I'm sure that was cool sometime in the early sixties or something, but come on, seriously?
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
If it's not driven by the wheels it's just a low flying aeroplane.
P.S. A story about a financially infeasible car - where's Rei?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Could someone rephrase it in terms of a car analogy?
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You must be one of those people who think money disappears when it gets spent.
That if it gets spent on something like this, it can never be spent on something different.
Here's a clue: that money goes to engineers and other staff to design and build the thing. They are then capable of spending that money themselves on anything they want, less the amount that goes back to the government as taxes.
Anytime now he is going to tween Tesla Model FU that will go 2000 mph and it will cost 20,000 $ and it will ship in 2020, reservation 2000$ starts tomorrow. "This is the next level of digital, not 1s and 0s, but 2s and 0s, because we are twice as good. 2000 mph, 20,000$ price, 2020 shipping, 2000 for preorder... See ? All 2s and 0s!"
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
1000 mph is supersonic speed, which means they will have some extra engineering to tackle
than it is not a car. It is a broken jet plane that can't takeoff.
There is so much room for improvement in the daily automobile. I doubt that a 1,000mph would add anything to our world.
Not only would they building a car with limited usefulness, it's calibrated in US-CU and not Metric.
It's all about being infatuated with an idea, a number.
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base it on a railgun
good for 5000 mile an hour
why stop at 1000
Go well
They're just trying to develop extremely-high stall speeds, so as to take advantage of the longest runways.