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The rocket that will be used in the Bloodhound SSC car, which is attempting to challenge the world land speed record, was fired for the first time in Newquay today.
With the test having gone to plan, Andy Green intends to pilot the £10million Bloodhound rocket car beyond the 1,000mph mark - that's faster than a bullet. Success would mean the land speed record being beaten by the biggest margin, ever.
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03/10/2012 20:14
Four words Andy - JUST GO FOR IT!!!!!
You want to eliminate starvation and poverty in the third world? Stop them having children. It's that simple.
I'm sick and tired of TV ads with kids drinking 'polluted' water or lying there with a line inserted but no IV attached and messages that 'we are saving children for a brighter future' because I've been there and it is all total BS.
The problem is overpopulation. If you stop the next two generations being born in these countries the one that follows may have a bright future. If you let the current rate of population increase continue uncontrolled forget it - in 50 years time we will still be dealing with the same old scenario.
03/10/2012 14:22
Good luck. What a great enterprising guy Richard Noble is.
03/10/2012 15:41
Excellent, went to a presentation of the car by Richard Noble, great for British engineering, I wish all the team well in their record attempt.
03/10/2012 15:02
Now you wouldn't mess with him at the traffic lights, would you, woooosh.
03/10/2012 20:08
good to think of a target like that, just make sure you do not kill yourself in the attempt.
too many good men have died chasing dreams!
I love the fact that this is another Brit Project
03/10/2012 16:36
Go for it Andy .
03/10/2012 17:49
Go for it Andy and Good Luck !!!!!
03/10/2012 15:52
I think when you go that fast--!!! the wheels become irrelevant -? it then becomes something else ? NOT A CAR , Might as well put this Rocket machine on a track( or in a tube ? ) and do a contest from one end of the country to the other. Or maybe through the Channel tunnel , that would cut the travelling time down.
03/10/2012 15:28
Would I love to see that, Would I.
15/10/2012 13:07
The Great that used to be associated with Britain was built by people and projects just like this. Sometimes someone with blood that is the real red stuff sticks his neck out and achieves something, it is the way empires and whole new worlds were created, and it is a shame that the very country that launched the world into the industrial revolution fell so far behind in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Don't ever put these people down, if we had a lot more of this kind of gutsy spirit, the Americans, French and Germans et al would not own half of our country and it's infrastructure. As has been said before, the politician, the head in the sand accountant and the unions amongst others brought this country to it's knees.
Add the likes of Messrs Branson, Dyson, Noble and company together to run the country and watch the sparks fly! Let the risk taking begin and a shed load of excitement would be on the cards.
It would be risky for sure, but hell, with the country in the state it's in what's to lose, and after all is said and done, it has been done before. We could call it the phoenix operation!
04/10/2012 12:16
The comments here make me sad. Lack of ambition to see technological breakthroughs or lack of interest in something so fundamentally exciting isn't something to be proud of. Pushing the boundaries is something that should be celebrated. This is almost as bad as after the likely discovery of the Higgs Boson, when everybody asked 'what's the point.' If these people were in charge, then we wouldn't have any technology or understanding of the world around us, let alone our vast civilisation. Also, people saying 'what about people starving' have an acute misunderstanding of how the world works, and of what this project was designed to do- the economy will be better off as it inspires school children to become engineers. Also, this is essentially research that may well have useful applications in the future. This is both a learning exercise and an adventure, and for the measly sum of 10 million is something of a bargain.
03/10/2012 13:29
Why? What possible good can come out of this.10 million pounds,surely better things could be done with this much money and for more needy people.
03/10/2012 17:49
Go for it Andy and GOOD LUCK !!!!
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that there are staving and diseased children in the world go out and directly help instead of moaning on this forum, which is to celebrtae a group of people going out to set a world record!
Good luck to the team and ANDY balls out and go for it!
15/10/2012 13:46
Just for the moaners on here, the £10million is private money, not public, thus the people who have sponsored this can spend it any way they want.
£10million is peanuts comperd to the £12billion that we spend on foreign aid, if you worry so much that there are staving and diseased children in the world go out and directly help instead of moaning on this forum, which is to celebrtae a group of people going out to set a world record!
Good luck to the team and ANDY balls out and go for it!
03/10/2012 15:33
And just what good is it? 10mil..........more money than sense!!
03/10/2012 16:14
I'm sure all the starving and homeless people in the world can't wait to see if it breaks the world record......
03/10/2012 14:12
Get Richard Hammond to drive/pilot the thing, he is experienced in this area! No, wait....
03/10/2012 18:30
24/10/2012 14:28
Why bother - the sound barrier has been broken which was the major milestone ! - These people should send the money to charity instead or concentrate on somthing we all really need !!
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