That soulful engine provided us with 616 hp and moved up to speed from 0 to 60 in 4 seconds, doubling down from 0 to 100 in 9 seconds.

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Think of it this way: if we took one-thousandth of a second of footage from the femto camera video output and slowed it down to the speed of 30 seconds per frame -- the approximate speed of a standard TV broadcast -- it would take us a lifetime to watch.

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Network Rail said the "down" line from Birmingham was currently closed while the "up" line had a 50mph speed limit.

BBC: Landslip disrupts rail services near Bristol

Damien Traille fed the fly-half, whose burst of speed took him away from the chasing New Zealand players before he off-loaded to Jauzion to touch down.

BBC: New Zealand 18-20 France

In his version (From the Earth to the Moon, 1865, and its sequel, All Around the Moon, 1870), an aluminum craft launched from central Florida achieves a speed of 24, 500 miles per hour, circles the moon and splashes down in the Pacific.

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