Is a car faster than a bullet?

In 1997, British Royal Air Force fighter pilot Andy Green
Andy Green
Green is the current holder of the World Land speed record, and the first person to break the sound barrier on land. On 25 September 1997 in ThrustSSC he beat the previous record in Black Rock Desert, US, reaching a speed of 714.144 miles per hour (1,149.303 km/h).
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broke the world land-speed record at 763 miles per hour (1228 kilometers per hour)—literally faster than some bullets
. Now he's gunning for a new record in 2012—driving 1000 mph (1609 km/h) in the new Bloodhound supersonic car.
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What is faster a car or a bullet?

Share: When supersonic car BLOODHOUND SSC hits its top speed of over 1,000mph in 2016 it will move faster than a speeding bullet. More importantly, it will be travelling faster than any jet fighter has ever been at ground level.
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What is faster than the speed of a bullet?

That is faster than a bullet fired from an assault rifle- 1000 metres per second. A natural disaster poses serious risks to your life, liberty and limb. People die, are trapped or injured during and after a natural disaster.
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Which is faster bullet or light?

The fastest things ever made

Bullets can go 2,600 mph (4,200 kmh), more than three times the speed of sound. The fastest aircraft is NASA's X3 jet plane, with a top speed of 7,000 mph (11,200 kph). That sounds impressive, but it's still only 0.001% the speed of light.
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Is a bullet faster than a missile?

' Wall said the test missile was traveling 3,200 feet per second, which equates to 2,182 miles an hour. The Lance was traveling between 1,000 and 3,000 feet per second, Wall said. In comparison, a 9mm bullet travels at about 900 feet per second.
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Thrust SSC - still the only car to travel faster than the speed of sound



Can a jet outrun a bullet?

The bullet goes faster than the jet if you fire the bullets while inside the jet. If there is no friction (i.e: the bullet was fired in space), then you could accelerate the jet, catch up with the bullet and pick it out of the sky (although the rotation of the bullet would probably cut up your fingers).
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Can you dodge a bullet?

Bullet dodging, Scientific American reports, is one such make-believe ability invented by Hollywood. Regardless of your speed and finesse, no human can dodge a bullet at close range. The bullet is simply traveling too fast. Even the slowest handguns shoot a bullet at 760 miles per hour, SciAm explains.
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What is speed of Darkness?

Darkness travels at the speed of light. More accurately, darkness does not exist by itself as a unique physical entity, but is simply the absence of light.
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Are black holes faster than light?

Using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have seen that the famous giant black hole in Messier 87 is propelling particles at speeds greater than 99% of the speed of light.
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How fast is a bullet in mph?

When bullets fly through the air, they do so at amazing speeds. The fastest bullets travel more than 2,600 feet per second. That's equivalent to over 1,800 miles per hour.
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What is the fastest bullet?

220 Swift remains the fastest commercial cartridge in the world, with a published velocity of 1,422 m/s (4,665 ft/s) using a 1.9 grams (29 gr) bullet and 2.7 grams (42 gr) of 3031 powder.
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Can ABS stop a bullet?

For this very reason, the best abs are not only bulletproof, but bulletproof and made of steel. You can't argue with that, it's just completely legit. Many systems claim to be able to stop small firearms, but this is the only program that has a 5 step process to help you stop small firearms with your abs.
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WHAT CAN GO 1000 mph?

The Bloodhound is a truly super supercar. It's designed to punch right through the sound barrier to over 1,000 miles per hour. is the Bloodhound SSC, a car designed to hit 1000 miles per hour.
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How fast can a jet car go?

Flying mile 1,227.985 km/h (763.035 mph)
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Is anything faster than light?

Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity famously dictates that no known object can travel faster than the speed of light in vacuum, which is 299,792 km/s. This speed limit makes it unlikely that humans will ever be able to send spacecraft to explore beyond our local area of the Milky Way.
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What is the slowest thing in the world?

The atoms in our frigid atom cloud quite literally move at less than a snail's pace – and that cloud is the slowest thing on Earth.
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Is speed of light possible?

Based on our current understanding of physics and the limits of the natural world, the answer, sadly, is no. According to Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity, summarized by the famous equation E=mc2, the speed of light (c) is something like a cosmic speed limit that cannot be surpassed.
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Is there a speed of smell?

The time it takes to smell a chemical in the air is the time the chemical takes to travel in air to our nose, and for the nerve impulse to travel to the brain (milliseconds), so smells are almost instantaneous.
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How fast is the speed of gravity?

The best results, at the present time, tell us that the speed of gravity is between 2.993 × 10^8 and 3.003 × 10^8 meters per second, which is an amazing confirmation of General Relativity and a terrible difficulty for alternative theories of gravity that don't reduce to General Relativity! (Sorry, Newton!)
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Why did Einstein square the speed of light?

But why is the speed of light squared? The reason is that kinetic energy, or the energy of motion, is proportional to mass. When you accelerate an object, the kinetic energy increases to the tune of the speed squared.
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Can a Bible stop a bullet?

Rickey Wagoner, 49, was shot three times at point-blank range and stabbed in the arm, but survived because both bullets aimed at his chest were stopped by a New Testament devotional Bible in his front pocket, according to WHIO. The third bullet struck him in the leg.
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Is it possible to cut a bullet with a sword?

Watch Isao Machii, who holds several Guinness World Records, accurately use his samurai sword with lightning speed to cut a bullet in half. Cutting a speeding bullet in half may be a trick shown in Rajnikanth movies but it can actually be done in real life by a real ninja.
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Can humans dodge arrows?

Considering that people catch arrows - 10 catches in 2 minutes, it is clearly possible to dodge arrows. Watch the video and you can see that dodging is definitely possible.
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