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The Bloodhound SSC: The First 1,000 mph Car

by Socrates
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In a way this blog is about breaking through barriers, our relentless desire to go faster, further, higher and deeper, and the risks thereof. Backed up with a good measure of advanced science and technology we are overcoming limits that for as long as we can remember were considered impossible. Whether it is Living with Robots, Mind Reading, Nanotechnology, Rocket Racing, Bionic Limbs or Hearts, Regenerative Medicine, Synthetic Life, Smart Underwear, Skydiving from Space,  Upgrading Our Biology or even Immortality, it seems that what was the science fiction of yesterday has become the science of today. The Sky is Not the Limit anymore. Arthur C. Clarke once said that if a scientist says that something is possible she is probably right. But if she says that something is impossible she is almost certainly wrong. After 3 years of planning and [...]

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