An aircraft flying at a faster speed consumes more fuel per distance than the same aircraft flying at a slower speed.

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In film after film, we have to wait without words for a character to make up his mind to do something, and even at a faster speed the wait can seem interminable.

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Hutchinson currently holds the lap record for the Grand Prix itself at 133.23mph, although Manxman Conor Cummins recorded a slightly faster speed in last year's Dundrod 150 Superbike race.

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While the slightly faster clock speed may be a nice bragging right, at the end of the day Atom N470-based netbooks are still, well, netbooks.

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As a bonus, SpeedNet's customers will be able to plug into the Internet at warp speed, using connections that are more than 100 times faster than a dial-up modem.

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They also give the boat a top speed of 25 knots, eight knots faster than the current boat at Montrose.

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