Sentences with phrase «a-hundred kilometers per hour»

It can hit about 174 mph (280 kilometers per hour), which is on par with some of the quickest small passenger aircrafts.

[Comments made during video: We're traveling at 27,000 kilometers per hour, or roughly 18,000 miles an hour.

The Hyperloop would send travelers through low - pressure tubes in specialized pods that zoom at high subsonic speeds, reaching more than 700 mph (1,100 kilometers per hour).

The missile is claimed to have a maximum speed of 11,200 kilometers per hour (about 7,000 mph or Mach 10), and is also said to be highly maneuverable.

«If you can move people from city to city at 1,200 (745 miles per hour) to 1,300 kilometers per hour, you have a system that can reshape society,» he explained, suggesting that as distances shrink, economic productivity could increase as traffic disappears.

They are not quite there yet, but the company claims that they achieved a test speed record «of nearly 387 kilometers per hour» (240 miles per hour, 107 meters per second) at their full - scale test track in Nevada.

Whether it's reported in knots, miles or kilometers per hour, we can measure the wind as it is happening and whether or not it is windy at any given location and time is not as questionable as the existence of an all - powerful creator.

A Galapagos Racer Snake can move seven kilometers per hour, and is roughly 1 / 8th the total size of a wide receiver.

I'm only now realizing the extent to which Laidlaw and Peter Oosterhuis dwell on the wind, which is gusting up to 30 kilometers per hour in Spain.

Arjan Robben tore Spain's defense apart during 2014 world cup group game where Holland beat Spain by 5 - 1, he reached top speed of 37 kilometer per hour when he sprint pass Ramos and Jordi Alba to score his second and Holland's fifth of the day.

The law requires motorists to travel at 50kph on standard roads, 80 kilometers per hour on a highway and 100 kilometers per hour on a motorway, but this is largely ignored.

They will climb to 15 kilometers in the stratosphere and fly in the path of the total solar eclipse over Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee at 750 kilometers per hour.

That's evidence that the relatively slow movement of the debris (2 - 4 kilometers per hour) helped species adapt to changing conditions across the Pacific Ocean, the team wrote.

Humans and cheetahs are a case in point: Although the two humans included in the team's study weighed in at 70 kilograms and had an average top speed of about 41 kilometers per hour, the heftiest cheetah weighed about 5 kilograms less but ran nearly three times as fast.

For example, a 6 - metric - ton Tyrannosaurus rex's top speed may have been about 27 kilometers per hour (slightly more than an average human's running speed but nowhere near Jamaican sprinter and world record holder Usain Bolt's), they estimate.

The finding, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is based on an analysis of 506 race - ending crashes in Formula One — a class of racing featuring single - seater, open wheeled cars and speeds in excess of 350 kilometers per hour — between 1970 and 2014.

Spacecraft screaming along at many thousands of kilometers per hour have to hit the brakes hard, firing retrorockets to swing into orbit.

Measurements of a Tyrannosaur's fossilized footprint help researchers estimate that the ancient beast was at the time walking between 4.5 and 8 kilometers per hour (2.8 to 5 miles per hour).

One previous study of a single footprint of a large tyrannosaur suggests that the beast could have been traveling as fast as 11 kilometers per hour (6.8 miles per hour), says Eric Snively, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

Such a voyage is a straight shot westward and would take about 3 weeks of daytime sailing at typical Viking ship speeds (which, for the uninformed, is about 11 kilometers per hour).

Then, they measured the distance between the footprints and used an equation based on observations of living, walking bipeds to estimate the dinosaur's walking speed, yielding a result between 4.5 and 8 kilometers per hour (2.8 to 5 miles per hour), they report online this month and in a forthcoming print issue of Cretaceous Research.

The recently ejected material is spat out in opposite directions with immense speed — the gas shown in yellow is moving close to one million kilometers per hour (621,371 miles per hour).

Let's say a driver approaches a red light at 80 kilometers per hour (50 miles per hour) and coasts to slow down, then the light turns green and he or she floors the accelerator.

The panels did not require heavy racks that anchored deep in the roof for support but rather lay flat and spaced out to allow wind to flow through them, allowing them to withstand gusts up to 210 kilometers per hour as demonstrated during a test installation in Florida that survived a tropical storm.

The scientists estimated water coursed over the escarpment through Noto Canyon, flowing at up to 160 kilometers per hour and spilling over a 1.5 - kilometer - high waterfall into the Mediterranean's briny eastern basin.

The maneuver slowed the spacecraft to around a mere 209,000 kilometers per hour, enough to be captured by Jupiter's gravity.

The analysis, reported in the 10 August issue of the Astrophysical Journal, showed that cool, denser gas inside the spot sank into the sun at about 5000 kilometers per hour.

Outside, in exposed parts of the city, winds were gusting at up to 160 kilometers per hour as the storm made landfall.

Near the end of its life, a huge star blasts much of its bloated outer atmosphere into space — a torrent of gas equal to Earth's mass each year, racing outward at 10 million kilometers per hour.

Hurricanes wreak havoc when they strike the shore, especially those with winds exceeding 200 kilometers per hour.

Based on the wavelengths of spectral lines emitted by the luminous gas surrounding the black hole, the object is traveling at a speed of about 7.5 million kilometers per hour — a rate that would carry it from Earth to the moon in about 3 minutes.

Researchers found that bears, while foraging, can disperse through their scat about 200,000 devil's club seeds per square kilometer per hour.

That's equivalent to a human moving at 500 kilometers per hour.

Winds from a category 5 hurricane (the most severe), by comparison, reach about 250 kilometers per hour.

One such star is hurtling away from the Milky Way at roughly 4.3 million kilometers per hour, researchers report in the March 6 Science, making it the fastest - moving star to be ejected from our galaxy.

During those deep dives, the probe will fly just 5,000 kilometers above the cloud tops and gravity will accelerate it to roughly a quarter of a million kilometers per hour, setting a new spacecraft speed record.

On October 19, the comet whizzed past the Red Planet at a little more than 20,000 kilometers per hour.

The burst occurred when a giant cloud of plasma ejected from the solar corona, and moving with a speed of about 2.5 million kilometers per hour struck our planet, causing a severe compression of Earth's magnetosphere from 11 to 4 times the radius of Earth.

That's when mission planners project radio communications will be lost with the two - ton, bus - size spacecraft as it plunges into the giant planet's turbulent atmosphere at more than 122,000 kilometers per hour.

Akatsuki's 2 - year mission aims to peel away some of the mystery of Venus's dense, cloudy atmosphere, which sweeps over the planet at speeds exceeding 300 kilometers per hour, or 60 times faster than Venus itself rotates.

F1 tornadoes have winds between 117 and 180 kilometers per hour (73 and 112 mph), while the strongest tornadoes, F5, have winds between 420 and 511 kilometers per hour (261 and 318 mph), according to the original Fujita scale.

With sustained winds of 140 kilometers per hour, the cyclone flooded the southern Malay peninsula and damaged two U.S. naval ships.

But how do the birds track these familiar sites hundreds of meters below as they zip by at 65 kilometers per hour?

On October 12, 1979, Typhoon Tip generated peak wind speeds of 300 kilometers per hour.

Tata Motors may have dealt with this problem by adding a small gas motor that kicks in at 55 kilometers per hour.

Unfortunately, air power will accelerate you only to about 55 kilometers per hour.

Dispersal and movement First and foremost, according to scientists, hurricane - force winds in excess of 119 kilometers per hour further mix and disperse the oil itself.

In order to remotely brake a car traveling at more than 100 kilometer per hour, it was enough for the American security researcher Stephen Checkoway to use the music player software installed in the car together with a smartphone connected to it.

Sometimes the team released gas traveling a leisurely average walking speed of a few kilometers per hour; other times, they let the gas flow 100 times faster.

Other states, including Florida and Texas, are proposing to build dedicated high - speed rails from scratch that would allow trains to reach top speeds of about 240 kilometers per hour.