Do you know what is the speed of a cork flying out of a champagne bottle? And the fastest animal on Earth? Is there a speed higher than the speed of light? Today we will tell you about the most incredible records speed.
The speed of movement of nerve impulses in the human body is approximately 90 m / s.
The fastest speed of the toy train can reach 10 km / h.
The peregrine falcon develops the greatest speed among animals when it dives for prey. His record is 322 km / h.
In boiling water, molecules develop speeds of up to 650 m / s.
The slowest speed in sports is only 1.35 km / h. This speed was recorded during the tug of war. 
A flying golf ball instantly develops a speed of up to 270 km / h after hitting it with a golf club.
The length of an aircraft flying at a speed of 1000 km / h can increase by 1 cm relative to its length at rest.
The windiest place on Earth is Commonwealth Cove, located in Antarctica. It is officially recognized in the eighth edition of the National Geographic atlas and the Guinness Book of World Records as the windiest place on Earth. You can forget about the fleeting gusts of wind, because there are severe whirlwinds blowing at a speed of 240 km / h.
The slowest mammal is the three-toed sloth, its movement speed is about 2 m / m.
Is there superluminal speed? Probably everyone, even people far from physics, knows about the speed of light in a vacuum. This is the maximum possible speed of movement of any material objects or propagation of signals. The speed of light in a vacuum is designated by the letter "C", is approximately 300 thousand km / s (its exact value is 299 792 458 m / s). In 2000, the following experiment was carried out at the Princeton Research Institute (USA). Lijun Wong and his assistants passed a laser pulse through a small 6 cm chamber filled with cesium vapor. The result of the experiment showed that when a light beam hits a chamber filled with cesium vapor, its speed increases more than 300 times. This means that a light beam in a vacuum has the highest speed recorded on Earth. It is 310 times the speed of light.
The highest human speed was recorded by the Apollo 10 astronauts at a distance of 122 km from the Earth's surface. It is 39,897 km / h and is the fastest ever developed by man.
Blind driver Hein Wagner's record was recognized by representatives of the Guinness Book of Records. He managed to accelerate to 322.5 km / h and keep this speed for a kilometer. The main goal of Wagner, he said, was to draw public attention to the problems of blind people.
Ira Ivanchenko, a 16-year-old from Kiev, developed her reading speed to 163,333 words per minute, fully assimilating the material she read. This result was officially registered in the presence of journalists. Another reading record was recorded on September 9, 1989. This unofficial reading speed record - 416,250 words per minute - was set during testing under the guidance of the Kiev Center. In this center, the brain of the record holder Evgenia Alekseenko was examined and a special test was developed. During the test, in the presence of several scientists, Evgenia read 1390 words in 1/5 of a second. This is the time it takes a person to blink. The record holder recited the material she had read with all the details for hours. Another reading record - 60,000 characters per minute - was set by the Russian schoolgirl Svetlana Arkhipova. It is listed in the Guinness Book of Records.
The highest rate of production of offspring in humans is 58 children per year. Such a record was set in Morocco by Sultan Moulay Ismail (reigned from 1672 to 1727). At the age of 31, he had 342 daughters and 525 sons. Sultan Moulay Ismail kept 500 concubines.
Fastest print speed: Record 2600 A4 pages per minute. It was installed by a Hewlett-Packard Inkjet Web Press printer. Moreover, the cost of 1 printed page was very low - no more than a cent per page.
It was calculated by the German physicist of the Technical University Friedrich Balk using acoustic and photoelectric devices. He found that the speed of a cork from a bottle is 40 km / h, and the flight height reaches approximately 12 meters. In theory, the cork can reach speeds of up to 100 km / h if the bottle is shaken well before opening or exposed to direct sunlight.
The record was set by 58-year-old musician from England Rori Blackwell. On October 24, 1991, at Finlake Recreation Park in Devonshire (UK), he made 3,720 beats per minute on a drum (that is, 62 beats per second).
How fast does the cork of a champagne bottle fly out? What is the fastest animal on Earth? Are speeds higher than the speed of light possible? Today we'll talk about some amazing speed records.
Nerve impulses in the human body
They move at a speed of about 90 meters per second.
Fastest speed of a toy train
It is 10 km / h.
The fastest speed in animals
The biggest speed in the animal kingdom - 322 km / h... This speed is developed by the peregrine falcon when diving for prey:
Water molecules
When water is boiled, its molecules move with speed of 650 meters per second.
Slowest speed in sports
She was registered on August 12, 1889 - only 1.35 km / h... The sport was tug of war.
Golf ball speed
The next moment after hitting a golf ball, he the speed instantly develops up to 270 km / h.
Aircraft
When the plane develops a speed of 1,000 km / h, then its length increases by one centimeter relative to the length of his rest.
The windiest place on earth
Commonwealth Bay is officially recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records and the eighth edition of the National Geographic Atlas as the windiest place on Earth. Moreover - it is located in, so forget about short-term gusts of wind, here the wind constantly blows at a speed of 240 km / h.
Slowest mammal
About kids
The highest rate of reproduction of offspring in humans is 58 children per year... The record was set by the Sultan of Morocco Moulay Ismail (reigned from 1672 to 1727), who by the age of 31 he had 525 sons and 342 daughters... Moulay Ismail kept 500 concubines.
Fastest print speed
Fastest print speed - 2600 A4 pages per minute... The record belongs to the Inkjet Web Press printer from Hewlett-Packard. It should be noted that the cost of one print is no more than 1 cent.
Fastest drumming speed
The record for the fastest drumming speed was set on October 24, 1991 by the famous English musician Rori Blackwell. He demonstrated his skills at Finlake Recreation Park in Devonshire (Great Britain). In one minute, on one drum, he produced 3,720 beats chopsticks in 60 seconds. That is 62 beats per second! At that time, Rory Blackwell was already 58 years old.
Champagne cork speed
German physicist Friedrich Balk of the Technical University of Clausthal in Lower Saxony calculated the speed of a cork from a champagne bottle. With the help of photoelectric and acoustic devices, the scientist found that traffic jam speed reaches 40 km / h, flight height - up to 12 meters. Theoretically, the cork speed can reach 100 km / h, but this is possible only in bottles that have spent a certain time under the influence of direct sunlight and have been well shaken before opening.
Birds are warm-blooded oviparous vertebrates, which differ in that their body is covered with feathers and the forelimbs are wings, with some exceptions. There are a lot of birds in the world - large and small, beautiful and not very, predators and herbivores, but today we will talk about the fastest of them. So, let's begin.
Sapsan (322 km / h)
Immediately we invite you to get acquainted with the fastest bird in the world, which is the Peregrine Falcon, which is widespread practically on all continents of the planet, except perhaps Antarctica.
Peregrine Falcon is no different large size- in this parameter, it is similar to the most common crow. The head is black, the plumage is gray, and the abdomen is light gray. But this type of falcon is the fastest creature in the world. According to scientists' measurements, a bird in a dive flight can develop 322 kilometers per hour or 90 meters per second! And now the question is - how many cars do you know that can accelerate so quickly? We do not think that every Ferrari or Porsche can ride at such a speed ... Nevertheless, in horizontal flight, a swift is faster than a falcon.
Peregrine Falcon is a very interesting hunt. He usually plans in the sky, looking for a new victim. As soon as he finds a suitable "candidate", he rises above him, and then dives down at a right angle, developing incredibly fast speed and strikes the victim with paws pressed to the body. This blow is so strong that even a large game can fly off the head.
Black Swift (160 km / h)
The second place is taken by the swift. This is a small, ubiquitous bird, whose weight varies on average from 50 to 150 grams. It is capable of speeds above 160 km / h in the horizontal plane and, according to this parameter, leaves behind even the Sapsans, which were discussed above.
True, now we are talking about a black swift. The plumage of this bird has a dark brown shade with a metallic sheen, and if you look at it from above or below, it may seem that you are in front of a real swallow. Females and males are colored the same, but the chicks are a little lighter.
Today, the black swift can be found in Central and Northern Asia, as well as in Central Europe. Interestingly, the black swift goes to India and Africa to spend the winter. In ordinary life, the bird is most often found in cities, less often it can be found in forests.
Several centuries ago, our descendants ate black swifts. They explained it very simply - bird meat is very tasty.
Gray-headed albatross (150 km / h)
Albatrosses have a very interesting feature- their stomachs produce fat, which is stored in the upper compartment of the stomach. With its help, the bird can feed its chicks, spit at opponents, and in addition, fat helps to satisfy hunger during long flights. By the way, they feed mainly on squid, but they do not mind trying fish, cephalopods, crustaceans, and even eat carrion. According to experts, gray-headed albatrosses are able to dive to a depth of seven meters for prey. And of course, the bird is known for its high speed characteristics. Her maximum speed can reach 150 km / h.
This species is currently considered particularly vulnerable as its numbers continue to decline. Nevertheless, according to data for 2004, there were more than 250 thousand individuals in the world, and they slowly reproduce on islands in the ocean. Many albatrosses are killed by humans, but it comes not about hunting - birds often get entangled in fishing nets and perish.
Eider (100 km / h)
Outwardly, the eider is very similar to a duck and a goose at the same time, but it has little to do with them, since it belongs to seabirds. You can meet her on the cold sea coasts North America, Europe and Eastern Siberia. Flies little, prefers everything free time located in the water near the coast.
The eider is a large duck, its weight can reach 3 kg. Females and males differ in appearance. The latter have a predominantly white body, but brown, black and brown shades prevail in the female's plumage.
This bird is famous for its extremely funny gait - very clumsy and funny. This is not surprising, since eiders try to come ashore only during the breeding season. But despite its appearance, it has an excellent flight speed - up to 100 km / h! Hard to believe, it really is. However, eiders are also excellent divers - they can dive to a depth of up to 50 meters.
As for nutrition, the bird prefers to eat shellfish, much less often eating fish or crustaceans. Molluscs get at the bottom of the reservoir, diving freely. It can be kept out of air for about one minute. It is interesting that she swallows food whole, which is subsequently digested in the gizzard.
Blackbird-fieldfare (70 km / h)
The fieldfare is also on our list - this is a very common species of starlings in Europe. It is found, however, not only in European countries, but also in North Africa, Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Fieldfarers are interesting in that they create entire colonies, which usually include up to 50 pairs. They can be seen at the edges of forests, in meadows, in parks. At the same time, one part of the birds can lead a sedentary lifestyle, while the other - a nomadic one.
As for nutrition, fieldfare can eat both plant foods and animals. This type of bird causes considerable damage to farmers, "steal" berries and fruits, so some of them shoot starlings, especially since it is not prohibited by law. By the way, their meat can be eaten.
Ostrich (70 km / h)
The flightless bird closes our list. Do such people exist, you ask? Of course, all of you are well aware of it - it's an ostrich! The bird's "maximum speed" is about 70 km / h, but a mammal develops such a speed only at the moment of danger. Usually, however, the speed of movement rarely exceeds the mark of 50 kilometers. It is about this creature that we will talk in more detail.
The ostrich is the largest of all modern birds - its weight reaches 150 kg, and its height is 2.5 meters. The physique is dense, the neck is long, the head is small, the eyes are very large, they have thick eyelashes on upper eyelid... The beak is large and wide. The wings are underdeveloped, but the hind limbs are powerful and long, allowing them to accelerate to high speeds. Plumage - curly, grows evenly throughout the body. At the same time, there is a naked part of the body on the chest, on which the creature rests when it lies on the ground. Females and males differ not only in size (the former are smaller), but also in color - males always look brighter than females.
This bird can be found in countries such as Africa, Iran, Arabia and Iraq. Previously, they could be seen in other states, but in the last few decades their population has greatly decreased due to intensive hunting. The usual habitat is semi-desert and open savannah. Usually ostriches are kept in families, which consists of one adult male, several females and their chicks. They often graze with other animals such as antelopes. By the way, they are the first to signal the impending danger, since they have not only high stature, but also excellent eyesight. If danger overtakes them, they flee, the maximum speed of which is about 70 km per hour. At the same time, the step width is up to 4-5 meters.
As for food, ostriches usually prefer to eat plants, although they can eat insects and even small animals (rodents, reptiles). But young chicks eat only animal food. The bird has no teeth at all, so to grind it, it swallows stones (and sometimes everything that comes its way, up to rusty nails and pieces of iron). Ostriches love water, although they can do without it for a long time - they get all the life-giving moisture from plants.
The male mates in his harem only with the dominant female. Interestingly, all females lay their eggs in a common nesting hole, which is raked out by the male himself. After all the eggs are laid, the dominant female demands that the rest of the females leave and buries the eggs with sand, and moves her eggs to the middle (she distinguishes them by texture). On this her role is over - now "dad" has to incubate the chicks. During the day, eggs are often left unattended and heated by the sun. Nevertheless, most of the chicks still die from lack of hatching. By the way, to break the egg, the chick spends at least one hour - the shell is too thick. On the second day, the chicks begin to travel with their father around the neighborhood in search of food. The average lifespan of an ostrich is about 65-75 years. You can see the photo of the bird just above.
We invite you to find out about some incredible speed records.
The fastest speed in animals
1. The greatest speed among animals is developed by the peregrine falcon when diving for prey - 322 km / h.
Water molecules
2. In boiling water, molecules move at a speed of 650 meters per second.
Nerve impulses in the human body
3. The nerve impulse travels at a speed of about 90 meters per second.
Fastest speed of a toy train
4. The toy reaches 10 km / h.
Slowest speed in sports
5.On August 12, 1889, the tug-of-war was set to a speed of only 1.35 km / h.
Golf ball speed
6. After hitting a golf ball, its speed immediately develops up to 270 km / h.
Aircraft
7. When an airplane travels at a speed of 1000 kilometers per hour, its length increases by one centimeter over its resting length.
The windiest place on earth
8. In the Guinness Book of Records, Commonwealth Bay is considered the windiest place on Earth. The wind is constantly blowing here at a speed of 240 km / h.
Slowest mammal
9. This title belongs to the three-toed sloth - it moves at a speed of 2 meters per minute.
Fastest speed recorded on Earth
10. Is a speed greater than the speed of light possible? The speed of light is 299,792,458 m / s.
In 2000, Lijun Wong at a research institute in Princeton (USA) sent a laser pulse through a 6-cm chamber filled with cesium vapor. A light pulse entering a chamber filled with cesium vapor increases its speed by more than 300 times. Based on this, the greatest speed ever recorded on our planet is 310 times the speed of light.
The fastest human speed
11. The highest speed developed by man is 39,897 km / h. It was reached by the astronauts of the main Apollo 10 module at an altitude of 122 km from the Earth's surface.
Fastest speed developed by a blind driver
12. Driver Hein Wagner in his Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG accelerated to 322.5 kilometers per hour and maintained this speed for one kilometer. His record is included in the Guinness Book.
Reading speed records
13. The official record for reading speed belongs to 16-year-old Kievite Irina Ivachenko - 163,333 words per minute with full reading comprehension. The unofficial reading speed record is 416,250 words per minute. It was recorded on September 9, 1989 and belongs to Evgenia Alekseenko.
About kids
14. The highest rate of reproduction of offspring in humans is 58 children per year. The record belongs to the Sultan of Morocco Moulay Ismail, who at the age of 31 already had 525 sons and 342 daughters. It contained 500 concubines.
Fastest print speed
15. The Inkjet Web Press from Hewlett-Packard prints 2600 A4 pages per minute.
Fastest drumming speed
16. The record was set on October 24, 1991 by the famous English musician Rori Blackwell. In one minute, he made 3,720 blows with sticks, that is, 62 blows per second.
Champagne cork speed
17. The German physicist Friedrich Balk found that the cork of champagne in flight reaches 40 km / h, the flight height is up to 12 meters.
Everyone probably once asks the question: what is the fastest bird in the world? What speed is it subject to? What does she look like and what does she eat? We decided to answer all these questions in our new article, where we will talk in detail about the lifestyle, habitats, the habits of the fastest creature in the world, and also, as a bonus, we will provide here a list of nine other birds that also amazed people. the speed of their flights.
Peregrine Falcon: the fastest carnivore in the world
Probably few people know that the speed of the fastest bird in the world in a dive flight reaches three hundred twenty two kilometers per hour. For comparison, this equates to 90 meters per second! No other animal in the world can reach this speed.
By the way, the peregrine falcon has always remained a bird, which not everyone could keep. In the famous English work “Boke of St. Albans ", dating back to 1486, it is said that only a person of a high family, such as a duke or a prince, can have a peregrine falcon.
Unfortunately, it is because of human negligence that the fastest creatures in the world almost disappeared from the face of the Earth as a species. In the forties of the last century, when the most widely used pesticides, and among them DDT, the already few peregrine falcons were literally on the verge of extinction. These chemicals, which were sprayed in the fields, had an extremely detrimental effect on this species of birds, due to which their population began to decline rapidly. And only in 1970, when the use of these pesticides in agriculture was banned, the population of the world's fastest flyers began to grow again.
The size of an adult bird can vary from thirty-five to fifty centimeters, and the females are always larger than the males. The color of the upper body is gray, the abdomen is light. The beak is short, bent (like all falcons), and its blow is so strong that when meeting with it, the head of the victim often flies off. It feeds on birds such as a dove or duck, and small mammals such as mice, ground squirrels, hares and squirrels.
Peregrine Falcon is mentioned in the appendix to the CITES convention, where it is strictly forbidden to use it for sale in any part of the planet. Also, the world's fastest bird is listed in the Red Book. Russian Federation as an extremely rare species.
Winged lightning: top 10 fastest birds in the world
And here are a few more representatives of the world of birds who will conquer you with their speed. Who deservedly takes first place, we already know - without a doubt, this peregrine falcon is the fastest creature in the world. But who follows him in speed:
Golden eagle
Berkut quite deservedly takes the honorable second place in our list of the fastest in the world, because the speed of its flight can reach 240-320 km / h, which is not much lower than the speed of its predecessor. The golden eagle belongs to very large birds of the genus of eagles, because its wingspan can reach two hundred and forty centimeters, and its height varies from seventy-six to ninety-three centimeters.
The golden eagle is a predator, it hunts both medium-sized birds and rodents, and small mammals, for example, it can take a sheep. Due to its dark color with golden feathers on the neck and nape, this bird received the name Golden Eagle, which in translation from of English language means "golden eagle".
Needle-tailed swift
The needle-tailed swift, also named the keytail, is in third place on our list of the fastest in the world. Its speed can reach 160 km / h, and its lifestyle is not well understood. The weight of this bird does not exceed one hundred and seventy-five grams, and the body length is twenty-two centimeters. The needle-tailed swift has chosen Siberia and the Far East as its habitat in the Russian Federation, and for the winter, representatives of this family fly to Australia. This small bird got its name because of the shape of its tail - not bifurcated, like most swifts, but collected in one sharp end or needle.
Hobby
This relatively medium-sized bird (about twenty-eight to thirty-six centimeters in size) is also a predator and belongs to the falcon family, like our record holder - a peregrine falcon, which, by the way, looks very much like a hobby. But, unlike him, the flight speed of a hobbyist is approximately 150 km / h. Also, this feathered predator is famous for never building its nests, and for breeding chicks prefers to occupy old dwellings of other birds, for example, a sparrowhawk, a crow or a magpie.
Frigate
The frigate is a bright and unusual bird that prefers to live in hot climates, for example, in the Seychelles or Australia. The speed of its movements is also impressive - it can reach 150 km / h, while the frigate can spend quite a lot of time in the air. Appearance males are very impressive - on the chest of each of them there is a bright red throat sac, by the size of which females determine the most promising male. The frigates got their name in honor of the warships of the same name, as they have a habit of taking food from other birds by attacking them.
Gray-headed albatross
If the peregrine falcon can be considered the fastest in the world in terms of diving flight speed, then the gray-headed albatross confidently holds the lead in the speed of horizontal flight, for which it was entered in the Guinness Book of Records. It can travel 127 km / h without slowing down for a full eight hours, which it proved in 2004. As its name implies, this albatross is ash-gray in color, and its length often reaches eighty centimeters.
Medium merganser
But the average merganser, despite the funny name, is one of the most typical representatives of the duck family. It also has a corresponding color - white-red breast, white abdomen and neck, black back with a green tint. The average merganser differs from all its other relatives in only one thing - it can develop a truly record speed - 129 km / h.
White-breasted American Swift
In fact, there are a lot of American swifts - as many as eight varieties. But it is the white-breasted American swift that is among them the record holder for the fastest flight - it can fly within 124 km / h. The swift feeds on various insects, thanks to the hunt for which it spends most of its life in the air.
Dive
It is customary to call a whole genus from the family of duck dives, which differs from, in fact, ducks in that its representatives prefer to get their food by diving into the water, which is where this funny name came from. These birds are also known due to the fact that they are among the ten fastest, because their flight speed can reach 116 km / h.
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With this bird, which is in tenth place in our survey among birds, we will end the article. Visit our website more often - we still have a lot of interesting things!