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Vision Systems just upped the 4k speed barrier by a near order of magnitude with the launch of its Phantom Flex4K cinema camera at NAB.
ENGADGET
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It was only a short burn lasting about 16 seconds, but it propelled SS2 beyond the sound barrier to a speed of Mach 1.2.
BBC: Science correspondent, BBC News
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His altitude was 31, 300m (102, 800ft), but his top speed was just short of the sound barrier.
BBC: Skydiver Felix Baumgartner fell faster than first thought
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But in the 1990s Gilder became convinced that the speed of light would be the final unpassable barrier governing the pace of all digital technology.
FORBES: Digital Rules
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Distance is no longer a barrier, he says, and high-speed internet has allowed local businesses in St Agnes to think about location in entirely new ways.
BBC: Business
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In 1997 at Black Rock Desert, Nevada, he drove Thrust SSC to become the first person to break the sound barrier in a car and set the existing land-speed record of 763mph.
ECONOMIST: The land-speed record
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It's also the place where Andy Green, a British fighter pilot, broke the land speed record in 1997 by driving a jet-powered car through the sound barrier to 763 mph.
FORBES: "Let's Punch A Hole In the Sky"
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These will be the first U.S. highways to break the 80 mph barrier (Texas and Utah have each tried 80 mph limits) since President Richard Nixon enacted a national speed limit of 55 mph in response to the 1973 oil crisis.
FORBES: Why Speed Limits Are Rising