What is the world land speed record to date?
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On October 15, 1997 in Black Rock Desert, USA - Andy Green of the United Kingdom drove the vehicle ThrustSSC - which was powered by the Turbofan, hit a speed of 763.035 MPH over 1 mile.
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Try http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/content_pages/record.asp?recordid=45405
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I don't know if there's an official "world record" for that but it would be cool.\n\nThere are lots of "hill climb" races and fun rides around the world. Most of them are on pavement because when it gets really steep on dirt, your tires slip and you run out of speed.
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the speed = distance/time
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The record for manned flight is :\n"The official air speed record is 2,193.167 mph by Capt. Eldon W. Joersz in a Lockheed SR-71A"\n\nhttp://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/records.htm
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the record speed is 210 held by bill elliott since aprox. 1985.  top speeds in practice this year are about 193 and probably average about 188mph.  sure hope that helps, good question!!!
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There are world records at all kinds of distances and surfaces- best horse on turf, over fences, etc.\nHorses race from 220 yards (a quarter mile) to 100 miles.\nIt's hard to pick the fastest horse when there is such a range! \n\nFor pure speed, world records, and impression on people at the time, the top American racehorse is probably Secretariat or Man O'War, and in the UK, Red Rum or Arkle.
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about 1000 mph.\n\napprox #'s here--earth is 25,000 miles in circuvfrence, 24 hours per day.   this is at equator.\n\ni am thinking, the farther away from equator, the speed can be progressivly slower.
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The one-mile (1.609-km) land speed record is 1,227.985 km/h (763.055 mph), set by Andy Green in Thrust SSC in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada, USA, on October 15, 1997.  He was driving the Thrust SSC (Super Sonic Car).\nMichael Johnson's 200 m race averaged 23.1 MPH over 19.32 seconds.\nSam Whittingham holds the record for fastest human-powered travel on a bicycle at 80.55 MPH.\nThe fastest speed achieved on a bicycle was 204.73 kph (127.243 mph), by Jose Meiffret (France), July 16, 1962, on the German Autobahn from Freiburg, behind a car creating a huge tailwind.
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top speed 185MPH \nhttp://sportcars.4mg.com/gts.html
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go to guinnessworldrecords.com
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The current world record holders are:\n\nRandy Barnes (Outdoor) 23.12 m (75 ft 10¼ in) Westwood, CA USA 20 May 1990 \nRandy Barnes (Indoor) 22.66 m (74 ft 4¼ in) Los Angeles, CA, USA 20 January 1989 \nAnd for women:\n\nNatalya Lisovskaya (Outdoor) 22.63 m (74 ft 3 in) Moscow, URS 7 June 1987 \nHelena Fibingerová (Indoor) 22.50 m (73 ft 9¾ in) Jablonec, TCH February 19, 1977
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no the world record for the fastest rap MC is Rebel XD with 683 syllables in 54.501 seconds on June 24, 1998
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There is no official world record because the shortest distance measured is the 50.  The problem is that the coaches are measuring the times, so they can be way off compared to a computer doing it.  There's a big article here about Ben Johnson running the 40 in about 4.38.
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*Counting* spacecraft, the fastest man-made object (so far) is Helios 2, which got up around 150,000 mph.  That's still less than 1/4,000th of the speed of light, so we have a way to go.
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Can't have such a record since terrains are different in all races...
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It happened on Mount Washington, NH -  231 mph on April 12, 1934.\nThis is the actual measured surface wind speed - tornadoes produce wind speeds this high but are not directly measured (they are approximated by doppler radar) so they do not count for this record.\n-This is a world record as well as a US record.