The Fastest Things In The World

just when you thought you knew who the reigning champions were something changes things advance quickly in the world of fast from animals to supercars to machines that may someday take over the world you'll be amazed by these top ten fastest things in the world today number 10 fastest animal if you thought the fastest animal on earth was a cheetah think higher technically speaking the peregrine falcon also known in North America as the duck hawk reaches speeds of over 240 miles per hour in order to tear apart Birds while in midair and if you're wondering how this bird of prey earn the nickname duck hawk you can watch videos of Peregrine's killing unsuspecting ducks or hunting evading pigeons by tucking their wings in and dive-bombing like a missile at ballistic speeds a technique called the rapid stoop compared the peregrines 240 miles per hour to the fastest moving terrestrial creature the cheetah which has a top speed of just 70 miles per hour and compare that to the fastest man sprinter Usain Bolt who has three World Records in speed and has a top speed of 27 miles per hour Falcon has used the Peregrine to hunt because they know no creature moves quicker number nine fastest waterslide if you want to match a cheetah in speed without using wheels try the insane Oh in Brazil known as the world's scariest waterslide the insane Oh is listed in the Guinness Book due to its 41 meter plummet the slide was constructed in 1989 and has become a magnet for Daredevils across the world since the picture this ride imagine walking up a 14 story building then jumping over its edge into a chute gushing with water riders reached 65 miles per hour as they fall its length in five seconds and due to the extreme height they are only allowed to take the plunge while positioned on their back with arms and legs crossed if you do brave the anticipation on your way up the slide deposits you into a swimming pool where you can slowly relive the moment in your mind number eight fastest roller coaster from the Intimidator 305 in the US the Leviathan in Canada to the dodonpa in Japan there are a host of roller coasters that push riders at vertical speeds upwards of a hundred miles per hour for sending them back to earth literally then there's the formula Rossa the rasa located in abu-dhabi stretches across a 2.2 kilometer tract which it would have to do otherwise the ride would not last longer than a few seconds because of its extreme speed the rasa isn't known for its smoothness though rasa gives you the same edge-of-your-seat experience as a Formula One car by accelerating from zero to 150 miles per hour in five seconds moving you 4.8 times faster than freefall it's so fast riders have to use protective goggles in case passing insects turn into IED projectiles number seven fastest elevator a more surprising race under way is for the title of world's fastest elevator in the last decade China has been going through an elevator boom there are more super tall skyscrapers than ever and estimations are that by 2020 40% of all elevators will be in China alone when you're dealing with tall buildings speed is a must the tallest building in the world the Burj Khalifa in Dubai travels at 22 miles per hour taking its riders over 2,700 feet in under 1.5 minutes when traveling at full velocity the Yokohama landmark tower in Japan takes this speed up a notch to 28 miles per hour travelling 971 feet in under half a minute however the designers of elevators in Shanghai Tower were especially aware of the importance of time saving the Taipei 101 elevator allows people to jump between floors at 40 miles per hour traveling over 1,600 feet in wait for it 30 seconds each elevator costs over two million dollars and goes faster than the haunted elevator amusement ride in Disney The Twilight Zone of Terror which itself travels at 39 miles per hour number six fastest manned aircraft when they call a plane of rocket you know there's something special about it the North American x-15 rocket-powered aircraft was an experiment in air travel speed and led to such terrifying results that it's record set in 1967 remains undefeated to this day this hypersonic planes fastest recorded speed was recorded at 4,000 520 miles per hour and not the previous record holder the bird sr-71 off the number one spot without even trying the record was set by William J Knight who flew the plane at max six point seven to beyond the speed of sound which when photographed happens to look like a spaceship in Star Trek warping into Lightspeed night may deserve to be knighted for his fearlessness however he's not the only daredevil responsible for bringing new feats of speed to mankind thanks to the daring pilots involved and modifications of the Westland Lynx ZB 500 viewers have been able to witness a helicopter touch the theoretical speed limits for any helicopter which is 250 miles per hour at a European airshow in 1986 the Lynx reached two hundred and forty nine point one miles per hour and became the world's fastest helicopter number five fastest computer the race for the fastest supercomputer is something of an arms race as of 2017 the world game is dominated by two players the United States and China but that race has been tilting to one side in 2006 America's record-breaking supercomputer appropriately titled Roadrunner became the world's fastest computer ever the roadrunner which looks a bit like your school lockers was the dream child of IBM engineers and constructed in New Mexico United States it cost 133 million US dollars to make at the time before it was decommissioned in 2013 however China now owns both the fastest and second fastest computers ever while the u.s. holds the third fourth and fifth spots on the world list the number one spot is China's supercomputer the T an he - also known as the Milky Way - it can reportedly store twelve point four petabytes and has a memory of 1.3 petabytes if you're not sure a petabyte is equivalent of a thousand terabytes or invites this just count the Connors yes that's five Connors the race never ceases Japan is expected to knock the Milky Way - aside with a cosmic allocation of 173 million dollars towards a new supercomputer during project a BCI the completion data is by 2018 the a BCI will dwarf the Milky Way twos ability to handle 93 petaflop reaching instead an estimated one hundred and thirty t petaflop if there was ever a candidate for terminators vision of Skynet the ABC I might just be it number four fastest fish bill fish are a group of apex predator fish and includes sailfish Marlin and swordfish some members grow over 16 feet and all move quickly in water which is why they're like trophies with in fishing circles all bill fish have the instantly recognizable needle-like bill but the swordfish has the longest while the sailfish is known for its dorsal fin that stretches along its back giving it the look of a sail or high top cut but of all bill fish or any other sea animal none cuts through water quite like the black marlin the black marlin has a spear like snout and rigid dorsal fin it almost looks like a comb-over these beasts of the sea can reach three times the length of a man and carry a weight of over 1,400 pounds when mature the BBC lists the black marlin as the fastest fish on the planet they leap above water at 50 miles per hour and accelerate under it at 80 miles per hour which nearly qualifies them for a lineup in fast and furious number three fastest train welcome to the future where trains no longer need wheels and instead float on thin air the jr maglev ml xo1 and currently the fastest train in the world was designed by the central japan railway company while this railway vehicle does actually have wheels like a plane taking off from the runway or the DeLorean in Back to the Future its wheels tuck in once it reaches 25 miles per hour the maglevs design looks like something out of a futuristic teen pocalypse movie sleek and minimalistic you may be wondering how a train can move in thin air mlu otherwise known as magnetic levitation uses magnetic repulsion to push the charged train car past the track that holds an opposite magnetic charge allowing the tube to slide past each other without friction on the 21st of april 2015 with the aid of super conductive magnets and attractive type electromagnetic suspension the maglev stole the title fastest rail vehicle by clocking 367 miles per hour but this was broken again less than a week later when the same train reached three hundreds of 25 miles per hour this SC maglev system will be in use in Japan by 2027 and will link Tokyo to Nagoya if you were wondering the current fastest operational train in the world is the Shanghai maglev which reaches speeds of 267.8 miles per hour number two fastest wind in May of 1999 an outbreak of tornadoes ravaged their way through Oklahoma in the u.s. one which would become known as the bridge creek more tornado caused 1 billion dollars in damage and destroyed over 8,000 homes it began as a single twister soon however scientists were made witness to the highest ever recorded wind speeds on earth when the bridge Creek twister became an f5 category f5 s are the highest on the Fujita scale of tornado intensity this tornadoes top speeds more than double that of hurricane Harvey which hit in 2017 although tornadoes have smaller diameters and lost shorter on average than hurricanes they are the fastest winds that exist as a consequence of fatalities the 1999 outbreak obliterated the myth of highway underpasses being good shelters against them before I reveal the most amazing example I'd like to remind you to subscribe to this channel we upload amazing fat-filled videos every day so don't miss out on learning some amazing new information also make sure to hit that Bell icon to be part of the notification squad number one fastest production car the Hennessey Venom GT has officially bullied its way to the top spot of world's fastest car knocking aside the bugatti chiron in 2014 a yellow Hennessey Venom GT Spyder clocked 270 miles per hour on the 3.22 mile shuttle landing strip of the Kentucky Space Center it beat the cheer on record again in 2016 on the 25th anniversary of its Texas manufacturer Hennessey performance engineering strangely the venom is something of an unofficial world beta as both of its top speed runs were made only in one direction they did not qualify for the Guinness Book of Records the venom was even recorded going from zero to 200 in 14.51 seconds making it also the unofficial fastest accelerating production car ever the did manage to qualify for a Guinness record for acceleration in 2013 though despite venoms accolades no production car comes close to the speed of sound the fastest non production car ever is the thrust SSC also known as the thrust supersonic and it broke the sound barrier by hitting 763 miles per hour in the Nevada desert it had be hard to picture this thing on the streets however as it basically looks like a jet without wings but what about the fastest racing cars cars that go around a track you would have thought that a standard f1 car would qualify to take the spot but that's not the case rules and regulations prohibit f1 cars from being the fastest they could possibly be to prove the point in 2010 redbull created the Red Bull X 20 10 concept car the X 2010 was theorized by Adrian Newey head engineer of Red Bull Racing and the hypothetical car designed as an ultimate racing machine was designed with pure speed in mind it is theoretically superior to any Formula One car in terms of speed and handling following expert advice it has since been updated in 2014 Sebastian Vettel performed the virtual takedown test of the car and on his first run he shortened the simulated course record held by Formula one cars on gt5 simulation of the Suzuka circuit by over 20 seconds on the other side of the world in Dubai the world's fastest ambulance the Lotus Evora which cost one hundred and fifty thousand dollars and can reach 185 miles per hour this may be what you need in a matter of life and death which fastest thing stood out for you let me know in the comment section down below also if you enjoyed this video make sure to hit that like button thanks for watching you

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Length: 12min 48sec (768 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 21 2017