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Thrust SSC (Supersonic Car)

15th October 1997 - Black Rock Desert Nevada
Driver: Andy Green
Top Speed: 763.035mph - Mach 1.020
The first ever supersonic world land speed record
This car produces 22.32 tons of thrust. In the pic the car is only doing 728 mph[1067.7333 ft/s]

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1/26/2006 1:32:23 PM

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widgeon : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

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1401 days 18 hours ago...

that means its covering about a mile in like 5 or so seconds.....4.94 seconds

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DressToKill : LVL 42: VP 5: said:

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1401 days 17 hours ago...

4.93.739 Secs.

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widgeon : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

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1401 days 17 hours ago...

no it isnt...5280/1067.73333 = 4.94505496....use a calculator...and there should only be one decimal in the number

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Fad3dieseL : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

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1401 days 16 hours ago...

lol, how does it not spin out of control

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wheety : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

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1401 days 16 hours ago...

widgeon, if you're using decimals and rounding it off to 2 numbers after the decimal point, then you should have said 4.95 in you original post.
4.94505496 See that 5 after the 4.94 that means you should round the 4 upto a 5

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widgeon : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

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1401 days 15 hours ago...

i dont round, it makes it inaccurate

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Rather Dashing : LVL 37: VP 4.5: said:

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1401 days 13 hours ago...

you rounded to 4, which is more inaccurate than rounding to 5

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widgeon : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

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1401 days 13 hours ago...

i didnt round at all....

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Chowdder : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

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1401 days 11 hours ago...

reminds me of my physics class...........significant figures...

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enderwigg : LVL 43: VP 5: said:

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1401 days 7 hours ago...

wow

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Goldstein : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

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1401 days 3 hours ago...

Oh god... You're killing me, widgeon. You spacker.

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John_t1 : LVL 39: VP 4.7: said:

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1400 days 22 hours ago...

1220.8 km/h approximately.

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EatMoChicken : LVL 21: VP 3: said:

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1400 days 16 hours ago...

widgeon...on your FIRST post you DID round....faggot

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widgeon : LVL 38: VP 4.6: said:

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1400 days 12 hours ago...

no i didnt, use a fuckin calculator and do it yourself...i simply chopped all the other numbers off...im not a fuckin moron like u must be to not understand this concept

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