speed of man

Depends on if you are talking very short as in micro distances. or Very long as in macro. Meaning, how fast can we get something to move 1 mm. or how fast can we get something moving to mach 9.3 like the X-3 from Nasa a few months ago. Or into outer space we can get things moving to "The NASA-German Helios 1 and 2 solar probes reached 252,800 km/h (158,000 mph) during their orbits of the Sun. The two spacecraft, which were launched in 1974 and 1976, were German probes designed to orbit the Sun."
 
im talking about the speed of something manmade.....that can travel at a constant speed for millions of miles, disregard the need for feul and other things of teh sort....but just the fastest manmade ship or so
 
This question is invalid. Man can make a laser, photons from the laser travel at the speed of light. I have seen evidence of experiments in which we may have even gone faster than the speed of light, transmitting information. how about the fastest thing man has made mass to travel? in this case your talking some type of rail gun. these are actual weapons that accelerate aluminum pellets near the speed of light. these are military in nature. so the fastest mass is a rail gun, fastest photon any kind of laser. fastest vehicle would probably be some type of satellite we've launched like voyager or the ones that came after it, 22,000 mph. or to really blow your mind, how about a whip? its been around since midevil times and the tip of a whip goes faster than the speed of sound, thats why you get the crack.
 
Actually, the fastest mass would be electrons coming out of the most powerful particle accelerators. They reach speeds of 99.9999%+ the speed of light.
 
As for the fastest man-made ship: The speed of current spacecrafts is comperable to the speed of the planets in the solar system - somewhere between a few miles and a few tens of miles per second.

Far short of the speed of light.
 
TT23,

I think that you probably need to flesh out your question a bit so that Ren and you are on the same page. Can you be a bit more specific about what you mean by a man made object?

im talking about the speed of something manmade.....that can travel at a constant speed for millions of miles, disregard the need for feul and other things of teh sort....but just the fastest manmade ship or so

In a general sense your response to Ren almost answers the question for you. If the object is to travel at a constant velocity for millions of miles then it has to be in a virtual vacuum and sufficiently far away from massive bodies so that it doesn't get a gravity boost to its velocity. That means out of deep space after the power has been shut down once it reaches the planned velocity. We haven't actually arrived there yet with a man made object that has completely left the Solar system (and the Sun and Jupiter's gravity).

It might seem a bit silly, but scissor blades closing is really fast...if you choose a sufficiently small distance along the blades. If you choose point "A" at the intersection of the blades and calculate the "velocity" from the time that the blade closes past point "A" and point "B" is at the intersection...if the distance between "A" and "B" is small enough...the velocity exceeds the speed of light.

If you formulate the differential something along the lines of V = dx/dt (x_1 - x_0/t), differentiate, pull down the derivitive and plug in the numbers...V > c. It's man made, it is really fast...but it fails your test of no fuel and lasting for millions of miles. /ttiforum/images/graemlins/frown.gif
 
Of-course, in the case of the closing scissors, there is no physical thing which travels faster than light... The intersection point between the blades is not an actual moving object.

It is still a cool curio, though.
 
The fastest man-made object, unofficially, is by the Pleiadean Empire.

This was a flying saucer, which I think was dead-manned on the throttle, about fourteen times the speed of light or greater, periceing the wall of the universe, till this distance was equidistant or greater than this actual real-time sphere.

The fastest object claimed by humanoids, was the acceleration phase as told in the Andreessen Affair Book One, of the Gem Worker Robots, going some fifteen times the speed of light, to one of the God-points, of the Gem continnum.

In universal speed, is different from out of the universe speed.

One of the fastest saucer.crafts, belong to the Pleiadean Empire, at a high speed just under light, but there are others so this is relative.

The Voyager Deepest spacecraft, by Earth is also pretty fast.

The quickest object accelerated on Earth, I believe or test projectiles, short from railguns, at hypervelocity speeds, in atmosphere.

The quickest new aircraft, I believe in the Aurora, air space craft, which has an explosive out of airframe method of propulsion, where the cavity shape of the aft portion of the engine, acts as the shape in which the fuel is detonated.

The fastest historical craft, was the SR-71, CIA run A-12 series, with twin engines, by Marquette, that had rotating geared in and out front engine diffuser spikes.This aircraft was declared a historic active aircraft by Senator Byrd, of West Virginia.
The Habu has offered unbelievable performance as an aircraft, by outflying high set top of the line Russian surface to air missiles, in a said attempt to photograph Chinese nuclear atomic test.

Habu is a remarkable aircraft, as this aircraft designed by Kelly Johnson, as a bulb locked cherry riveted high temperature fastener, with chined, or a dished fluted exterior.The air friction heat generated by the SR-71 is about nine hundred degrees, the same temprature as a very hot oven.

The fastest object I think ever recorded flying into our central sun, was a large comet, traveling over 200,000 miles per hour, into the chronosphere, as recorded by the U.S. Naval Observatory, shortly before it was eaten.

The fastest object noted as a particle emission, was a timed superluminal expansion rate, from a quasar, which exceeded the speed of light over a measured course, via astronomical means, over three times the speed of light.
 
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