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Faster than a speeding bullet? Meet the world's first 1,000 mph car
What has a jet engine, a rocket booster and travels on a set of aluminum wheels? It's the Bloodhound SuperSonic Car (SSC) and it has plans to hit the world land speed record at 1,000 mph. Made of titanium, carbon fiber and, like superman, is designed to go faster than a speeding bullet, the Bloodhound SSC has been painstakingly put together and tested over the better part of six years.
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That's approx 1600 km/h for all you Non-Americans out there.
I'm having a hard time wrapping that around my brain... especially the part where there is a human in there.