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fruityyamenrunner:

heraldic-thunderbolt:

The land speed record stagnates at 1997.

This says more than it should.

all the new land speed records are like using solar power or whatever. that’s just the state at which transportation is at now – refinement

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Well, the records went way past where pushing them further contributed anything to the development of land transport, or engineering in general (to the extent at this point they’re basically airspeed records with the oddball qualifier of being achieved in contact with the ground) and no one particularly wants to spend their money or passion on it

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