The Need For Speed! What’s Fastest?

Speed is sought by all. Don’t you want to do all sorts of things faster? Things like all your chores and busy work!

You’d like to have a faster car and a faster commute?

You want your sports team to have faster players?

So what is the fastest thing?

The fastest swimmer is the sailfish. It goes 68 miles per hour (mph).

The fastest runner is the cheetah at 60 mph.

The fastest flying creature is the Peregrine Falcon, at 186 mph.

How about the fastest vehicle? The winner is the NASA X-43 jet. It goes up to Mach 9.6 which is 7,365 mph!

What is the fastest thing we know of? Light is the champion at 670,616,629 mph.