Archive for January, 2009
The worlds fastest electric car
Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by chaze.
Shelby SuperCars (SSC), the company behind the world’s fastest production car, has announced plans to launch an electric supercar that is four times as powerful as the Tesla Roadster later this year. The Ultimate Aero EV will feature the firms proprietary All-Electric Scalable Powertrain, the AESP, containing twin electric motors capable of an incredible 1,000 [...]
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Interstellar Spaceflight (hyperspeed)
Posted on 20. Jan, 2009 by chaze.
Actually, we already have space craft venturing into interstellar space. Pioneer and Voyager probes, 2 each, have reached the sun’s escape velocity and are now forever outward bound. The fastest, Voyager 1, is traveling at 62,000 kilometers per hour (39,000 mph). Even at that tremendous speed it’s painfully slow when interstellar distances are involved. Voyager [...]
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Friends explains someone’s worst night ever
Posted on 16. Jan, 2009 by chaze.
<cassius_clay13> so I was with my friend bryan the other night in a bar <cassius_clay13> well he got really drunk and said he was gonna puke <cassius_clay13> so i helped him walk to the toilet <cassius_clay13> all the stalls were occupied <emoti_conartist> lol <cassius_clay13> bryan is a rugby player… so a big guy <cassius_clay13> so [...]
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White House: Increase in terror attacks since 9/11 a success
Posted on 16. Jan, 2009 by chaze.
One of the many sad ironies of the Bush era that is rapidly and mercifully drawing to a close is that after the president created a “central front in the war on terror” by invading Iraq, the amount of “terrorism” in the world skyrocketed. I call it the Bush Bubble: At first, the administration seemed [...]
