Wow. Just wow.

I can't believe this hasn't been mentioned before:
http://www.bloodhoundssc.com/

A target speed of 1000mph, using three engines, one of which is an
800bhp 4.5 litre V12 used as a glorified fuel pump.

(Oh, and there's a game...)

 

... but it's not very good.

 

Errr. Thats a bit like saying watching paint dry is a little bit
uninteresting.

 

I see it's at Goodwood this weekend. I'll take a look.

 

You are quite right not to believe that it hasn't been mentioned before on ukrm.
http://groups.google.com/group/uk.rec.motorcycles/msg/34964f622f705ede

 

"Our mission: to confront and overcome the impossible using Science,
Engineering, Technology and Mathematics - motivating the next
generation to deal with global 21st century challenges."

That's a rather long winded way of saying "I want to go faster than
Americans".

But I'm glad to see Noble is still at it.

 

Ah. No mention of Bloodhound on the newsgroup though, and their website
link hadn't been posted before.

 

Brilliant. I especially like the descriptions of the technical
challenges and design decisions.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Pip Luscher

AOL.

In fact, **** it...

Noble's got a good track record, I've just joined the supporters' club.

Go us! :^)

--
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I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

But hasn't he already done that?


--
Beav

VN 750
Zed 1000
OMF# 19

 

Yeah, just not as fast.

 

Err, Thrust SSC still holds the LSR. So why bother ? If the Yanks do
break it, I could see a point.

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

Not much point risking a mans life over a (higher) number.

Paul.

 

Ah, no we differ there. I think there's always a point to risking
your life to do something that has never been done before and to push
the boundaries of what can be done.

If people didn't, then Everest would never have been climbed and this
picture would never have been taken...

http://laluminata.files.wordpress.com/2008/12/apollo08_earthrise.jpg

 

It's the age old answers to stupid questions:

"Why did you want to do that?"

"Because it's there." or "Because I can."

The biggest reason for me going caving for years was that it about my
only chance of going somewhere that nobody else had ever been. Never
mind the scare yourself shitless bit about diving in zero visibility,
the biggest hit was popping your head out of the water at the end of a
sump and seeing a silt bank with no footprints on it.

 

Sir you have larger balls than I've got and probably more of them too.

That *would* scare me sh*t less.

 

I didn't do it long, just enough to bag a couple of bits of cave
nobody had been in before and then I stopped the diving and spent more
time chemical caving.

Not as much as chemical caving would. That really is dodgy because you
don't know exactly what you've done the first time you go back in
there.

 

Explosives

 

*BANG*

Using chemicals to remove obstacles.

 

I'm glad you did.

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