What is the fastest thing on Earth?

Strictly speaking, light isn't on earth. So for that I'd have to go for Thrust SSC :D

But yeah, Electromagnetic radiation is pretty damn fast.

You just /threaded your own thread....jointed

yep

A fifteen year old boy's first time... with a supermodel?CIoud_S

:lol: Thank you sir for making me lol.

Umm the speed of light its 299792458 m/s. The earth is only 40,000 km...

299792458 / 1000 = 299792.4458 km/s. It only takes .133426 seconds (rounded up) to go around the earth once.

[QUOTE="CIoud_S"]A fifteen year old boy's first time... with a supermodel?DrSponge

:lol: Thank you sir for making me lol.

good stuff

Umm the speed of light its 299792458 mWasdie

Oh here I tought someone made a topic after me... But I'd have to go with light being the fastestfastesttruck

I say it's light, because it can go 'round the world in 8 secs.IveDatedUrMom

And of course it is light, it is physically impossible for anything to travel faster than light unless you are in a worm hole.

Time is the fastest thing :P since everything that moves is measured in time, even light, time doesnt stop and is always moving. N0han

Gazelles...they run up to 55-60 mphGreenman_34

lol even if this was a fastest animal on earth thread you would still be wrong since the cheetah goes up to 70 mph. Im sure there are animals that are faster than the cheetah tho.

You got your facts wrong, it actually takes about 8 seconds for the light from the sun to reach us here on earth.Mochyc

8 minutes.

[QUOTE="Mochyc"]You got your facts wrong, it actually takes about 8 seconds for the light from the sun to reach us here on earth.james28893

8 minutes.

The development time for EA Games lol

but srsly :| light.

Gravity

As far as I know thats the only thing in the Universe that has an instant effect... instant > light speed yeah?, of course... I could be wrong.

Gravity

As far as I know thats the only thing in the Universe that has an instant effect... instant > light speed yeah?, of course... I could be wrong.

cheatymcshifty

Gravity

As far as I know thats the only thing in the Universe that has an instant effect... instant > light speed yeah?, of course... I could be wrong.

cheatymcshifty

But gravity isn't moving. It's only the attraction between masses.

A Jew with a coupon is the fastest thing on earth.ineedanap

I think sneezes produce some pretty fast stuff. Morphic

I say it's light, because it can go 'round the world in 8 secs.IveDatedUrMom

thats what i was going to say

Me in bed.

I say it's light, because it can go 'round the world in 8 secs.IveDatedUrMom

So many discrepencies...Light travles from the Sun to the Earth in seven minutes, from the Moon to the Earth in about 1.5 seconds, and around the world in that very short time said earlier.

As for the fastest thing...not light.

Thinking of it, there is such a thing as a Quantum Superposition whereby an atom can be in two places at once. A change in one exercises an equal change in it's other self, instantaneously, regardless of distance. Don't ask how, Quantum Physics is a very different thing to Macro physics.

Of course this is only theorised, but all the same...

*Ron Simmons* 'Damn!'

And the fastest manmade thing would not be a railgun, but either Saturn V rockets before leaving the atmosphere, or Space Shuttles, which re-enter our atmosphere at around 16,000 mph - rather faster than a 5600 mph railgun slug.

And the fastest manmade thing would not be a railgun, but either Saturn V rockets before leaving the atmosphere, or Space Shuttles, which re-enter our atmosphere at around 16,000 mph - rather faster than a 5600 mph railgun slug.

AliasUK

Yes, but I was using a form of manmade propultion as a qualifier, else a heatproofed ball bearing coult re-enter the atmospehre faster than a shuttle. Using gravity is cheating :P

[QUOTE="AliasUK"]

And the fastest manmade thing would not be a railgun, but either Saturn V rockets before leaving the atmosphere, or Space Shuttles, which re-enter our atmosphere at around 16,000 mph - rather faster than a 5600 mph railgun slug.

Chavyneebslod

Yes, but I was using a form of manmade propultion as a qualifier, else a heatproofed ball bearing coult re-enter the atmospehre faster than a shuttle. Using gravity is cheating :P

Saturn V left the atmosphere at 18,000, all by its own.

You got your facts wrong, it actually takes about 8 seconds for the light from the sun to reach us here on earth.Mochyc

8 minutes fool, get your facts right

light travels at 3x10^8 m/s (300,000,000 meters per second) which is around 186,000 miles per second. It takes light this long to tavel from the earth to the moon.

[QUOTE="ineedanap"]A Jew with a coupon is the fastest thing on earth.MissRiotmaker

I found it funny, and so did my Jewish friend. Lighten up, sunshine :roll:.

[QUOTE="IveDatedUrMom"]I say it's light, because it can go 'round the world in 8 secs.UrbanSpartan125

And of course it is light, it is physically impossible for anything to travel faster than light unless you are in a worm hole.

wormholes are hypothetical, I think you should just stick with light

Gravity

As far as I know thats the only thing in the Universe that has an instant effect... instant > light speed yeah?, of course... I could be wrong.

cheatymcshifty