How long does it take to travel 14km? (The distance to your school!)
Earth's circumference: 40,075 km - How fast can they circle the planet?
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The FASTEST thing in the universe! Nothing can go faster. It travels at 299,792 km per SECOND (1.08 billion km/h). School trip: 47 microseconds - literally faster than a thought! Light circles Earth 7.5 times per second.
The FASTEST human-made object! At closest approach to the Sun: 692,000 km/h (0.064% light speed). School: 73 ms. It's falling toward the Sun and using gravity to accelerate!
Launched 1977, now 24+ billion km away! Speed: 61,000 km/h. School: 0.8 sec. Still sending data after 47 years - the most distant human-made object ever!
Fastest jet aircraft ever! Speed: 3,540 km/h (Mach 3.3). School: 14 sec. It could outrun missiles and flew so fast its metal skin expanded 15cm from heat!
Supersonic passenger jet: 2,180 km/h (Mach 2). School: 23 sec. London to NYC in 3.5 hours! Passengers could watch the sun set, fly west, and see it rise again.
Cruises at 920 km/h (255 m/s). School: 55 sec. The "Queen of the Skies" has flown more passengers than any other jet - over 3.5 billion people!
Top speed: 370 km/h. School: 2 min 16 sec. 0-100 in 2.6 seconds! The cars generate so much downforce they could theoretically drive upside down on a ceiling.
Highway speed: 120 km/h. School: 7 minutes. This is probably how you actually get to school! With traffic lights and stops, more like 15-20 minutes though.
Fastest human ever! Top speed: 44 km/h. School: 19 min. He can only maintain max speed for ~20m. His stride length is 2.44m - almost as long as a car!
Marathon GOAT! Maintains 20 km/h for 2+ hours. School: 42 min. He's the only person to run a marathon under 2 hours (1:59:40). His secret: "No human is limited."
Sprint speed: 13 km/h. School: 1 hr 5 min. You'd arrive exhausted and very late! But keep training - every Olympic champion started just like you.
Light is 83 MILLION times faster than you! If you ran for 1 second, light would have traveled to the Moon and back. Parker Probe is "only" 53,000x faster than you.