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Bloodhound supersonic car project axed
A project to race a car at more than 1,000mph has been axed after it failed to secure a £25m cash injection.
The Bloodhound supersonic vehicle - built with a Rolls-Royce Eurofighter jet engine bolted to a rocket - is all but finished.
The Bristol-based team behind it was aiming to beat the existing land speed world record of 763mph (1,228km/h).
[...] The last two-to-three years have been an especially tough environment in which to raise financial support. The investment landscape is difficult, in part because of Brexit uncertainty, but principally because many large brands that might once have put their name on the side of a car to build awareness are now using other marketing tools, such as social media.
Previously: 3D-Printed Tech to Steer Bloodhound Supersonic Car
Bloodhound Supersonic Car to be Tested in October
(Score: 0, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 07 2018, @09:45PM (5 children)
What's the point of this, to waste money on an expensive way to die. Good on British funders not to give these idiots any money. Now, I hear that in Silicon Valley, you could still dump this kind of shit on the street and have VCs swarm like flies.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by MostCynical on Friday December 07 2018, @11:14PM (4 children)
Even I can see that, without people who ask "why not?" or "can we?", the world would not have much in the way of technology or exploration.
I can see slightly less relevance to the world in "most hotdogs eaten in a minute" or "longest toenails"than "fastest jet powered vehicle", but competition drives the world, and they are all examples of competition, striving for something, and pushing boundaries.
Moon? Mars? Hubble telescope? Large Hardon Collider? I assume your world needs none of these things.
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Saturday December 08 2018, @01:13AM (1 child)
Climbing Everest? If ever there was a "been there done that" challenge...
Land speed records push some esoteric sciences forward. Where's the relevance to the rest of the world? Perhaps in wind turbines, or vacuum tube subway suspension systems, turbine operation in dirty intake conditions, who knows, and even if nothing of value is learned, it's entertainment.
Personally, I'd much rather watch a few people try to go insanely fast in a no limits competition instead of organized sports where the participants are giving each other long term concussive injuries. Care to compare the budgets there? Collateral damage after the show is over?
And, it doesn't have to be speed - Punkin' Chuckin' is pretty cool too.
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(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Saturday December 08 2018, @04:47PM
As with most such efforts, that's TBD later. We never know what we might learn pursuing endeavors at the edges of our capabilities. And the more we learn, the better off we are.
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Infinite Recursion: See Infinite Recursion.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:00AM (1 child)
How many buttplugs can you simutaneously insert? We need to find out man!
(Score: 2) by EETech1 on Sunday December 09 2018, @10:28PM
Buttsharpies!