switched.com — In honor of our innate love of all things fast, we've gathered up a list of the fastest things on (or nearly on) Earth. You'll find no cheetahs or peregrine falcons here, just the most crazy-quick contraptions humans have ever strapped themselves into. With that, let's punch it....
Jun 10, 2009 View in Crawl 4
eramosJun 11, 2009
Fastest time a country taken down the s**tter: Barack Obama 2009
angilinmagoJun 11, 2009
"Altogether more amazing is the French TGV -- this conventional train rode its metal wheels and track to a baguette-crisping 357 mph. That's only four miles per hour slower (357 mph) than the fancy-pants Maglev train"Don't mess with French
samsksJun 11, 2009
WTF was he doing on a train track?!?Darwin at work bay!
hareton1Jun 11, 2009
What are you kidding?! It was designed to see if pilots could fly into and out of space! The pilots had to maneuver using aerodynamic control surfaces until reaching the top of their burn, and then transition to peroxide thrusters to keep the plane level, then back to ailerons again. On one of the flights, the window busted out, and the pitot tubes and wing leading edges would burn up during every flight. The only fatal crash in an X-15 came after the pilot lost control and went into a spin. This isn't riding an apollo capsule back... this is piloting to the nth degree.
awmagadJun 11, 2009
The metric system is the tool of the devil. My car gets fourty rods to the hogs head and that's the way I likes it
topcat5Jun 11, 2009
That was an experiment. Their trains normally operate around 185-190 mph. The Japanese have done the same thing.
maffiouJun 11, 2009
No need to go metric to rip people off:us pint = 473mluk pint = 568ml