THINGS WITH SPEED

FASTEST LAND VEHICLE

Military rocket sleds have been recorded at over mach 8.

FASTEST SPACECRAFT

In space speed can only be measured relative to some other object.

The fastest satellite moving away from the sun, however, is the

Voyager 1 at 38,500 mph.

FASTEST EATER

Joey “Jaws” Chestnut is now officially recognized by the International

Federation of Competitive Eating as the World Champion after

consuming 66 hotdogs in 12 minutes.

FASTEST CRASH TEST

EuroNCAP usually only does its crash tests at about 40mph to assign

production ratings. In 2011, however, they decided to up that

speed to 120 mph. Just for fun.

FASTEST GUITAR PLAYER

John Taylor broke the previous world record when he played

“flight of the bumblebee” at 600 beats per minute perfectly.

FASTEST RAPPER

No Clue obtained the title of “fastest rap MC” in the Guinness Book

of World Records when he did 723 syllables in 51.27 seconds.

That’s about 14.1 syllables per second.

FASTEST SPEED

Technically the fastest possible speed in the universe is the speed

of light. But there are some footnotes to that statement which

brings us to the next one.

FASTEST PARTICLE

Although it’s controversial, scientists at CERN recently conducted

experiments where muon neutrinos covered the distance between

Geneva, Switzerland and Gran Sasso, Italy, several nanoseconds

faster than light. At the moment, however, the photon is still

the considered king.