Want Progress, Race it, or Militarize it
Keith_Indy on Apr 05 2007 at 6:18 pm | Filed under: Keith's Page, Sports, Technology
An electric motorcycle is tearing up the track, and setting records. And improving at a very impressive rate. 6/10ths of a second gain in 3 months.
A123Systems today announced that The KillaCycle, the world’s quickest electric motorcycle and the official world record holder in the ¼ mile drag, broke the world record again using its lithium-ion batteries. The official record for any electric vehicle worldwide in the ¼ mile is set now at an elapsed time of 8.16 seconds. Further, The KillaCycle holds the top speed record for the ¼ mile, at a blistering 156mph.
I firmly believe that you see the most dramatic progress in an areas of technology that either make man go faster, or kill faster.
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The greatest advances in technology have always been during periods of warfare. The Civil War begat the Gatling Gun, the Franco-Prussian war the bolt action repeating rifle and the machine gun, WW 1 aircraft and gas warfare, WW 2 jets and the Atom Bomb, and the Cold War integrated circuits and microprocessors. Those who "cry havoc and loose the dogs of war" need the best to assure victory.
Now with the profitability of sports, they also have become an engine of progress.
It is competition amongst man that truely inspires. Warmongers, sports competitors, and egotistical scientists are all responsible for fantastic advances of their respective technologies in the attempt to beat a competitor, be it a country or an individual.