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Guinness World Record for largest elastic band ball?

Elastic band ball enthusiast shows his balls off, a patient ball building king

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Longest speech ever: 5 days and 4 nights

A Frenchman has broken the world record for the longest nonstop speech after talking... more

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Official Mega Man 9 World Record 2:29:51

Twin Galaxies official Mega Man 9 world record, presented by: John Gibbons Comedy.com

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Record-breaking Santas

A new world record has been set for the most santas congregated in one place. More... more

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Wis. students want to beat a snowball fight record

A group of UW-Madison students, which has about 3,300 members on the social networking... more

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Inked from head to toe

Isobel Varley got her first tattoo in 1986 at 49 years old. Since then she has had... more

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Raw Video: Dutch Set Domino Record (4,345,027 dominoes)

A new world record for the number of dominoes toppled in one go (4,345,027) fell... more

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Up, Up And Away … To A World Record

(CBS) It's the stuff of science fiction and James Bond. Strap a jet pack to your back... more

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Disabled teen does a backflip in a wheelchair

Aaron Fotheringham, a sixteen year old who's been in a wheelchair since he was 3, has... more

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Domino world record!

A new world record was recently been set for domino toppling when a staggering 4.3... more

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British teen embarks on round-the-world voyage

Michael Perham, 16, is gearing up for a four month solo sail around the world. If he... more

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World domino record set on TV

A world record for the number of dominoes toppled was set when 4.3m fell during a... more

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Nov. 13, 1983: Teen Sets Asteroids Record in 3-Day Marathon

1983: Fifteen-year-old Scott Safran of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, sets the world record... more

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Woman fails in beer record attempt

Anita Schwarz, a German woman, has failed in her attempt to set a new Beer Mug Record.... more

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Zombie world record broken

Thousands of zombies, covered in fake blood and face paint, took to the streets for... more

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What world record would you hold?

SUP YO'S! If you could set a World Record for something, what would it be?... more

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Branson admits defeat

Richard Branson has abandoned his attempt at breaking the transatlantic sailing... more

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Faster than a speeding bullet - 1000 mph car unveiled

British engineers have unveiled plans for the world's first 1,000mph car, a muscular streak of gunmetal and orange designed not to break the world land speed record but to shatter it.

Bloodhound SSC, named after the British cold war supersonic air defence missiles, will attempt to beat the existing record by more than 250mph.

The £12m car is to be announced today by Lord Drayson, the science minister. Working from an aircraft hangar in Bristol, the team's engineers have been working on the project in secret for the past 18 months. Calculations suggest the car could reach 1,050mph, fast enough to outrun a bullet from a .357 Magnum revolver.

The car was proposed by Drayson, a racing car enthusiast, as a project to inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers, who are in desperately short supply in UK. The Bloodhound team plans to have the car built within a year, with the record attempt expected in three years.

The project brings together mathematician and fighter pilot Andy Green, who set the current land speed record of 763mph with Thrust SSC in 1997, and Richard Noble, who directed that attempt. The car will be the first to meld a jet engine for a Eurofighter Typhoon with a rocket booster. Together they will produce 20,000kg (45,000lb) of thrust.

"It's an opportunity to do something extraordinary in engineering terms and to be part of the very best land speed record attempt in the world," said Green, 46. "It's more Buck Rogers than Wacky Races."

Green, an RAF wing commander, will use an accelerator to power the jet engine up to speeds of around 350 mph and then fire the solid rocket booster. At that point, a V-12 racing car engine will start pumping more than a tonne of hydrogen peroxide into the booster, forcing the car to 1,000mph in 20 seconds.

Team members are now visiting sites where the record attempt will be made. The current record was set at Black Rock Desert in Nevada. But that has been ruled out as ground conditions there have deteriorated since 1997. In the next week or two, Green will visit a site in South Africa. Other possible venues are the salt flats of the US and Australia.

John Piper, the lead engineer on the project, said the team would build a full-size mock-up of the vehicle over the next month.

"If we produce a 900mph car and every schoolkid in the country really gets into it, and it makes a difference to how they feel, and how the nation feels about scientists and engineers, without whom we can't live in a hi-tech world, we've done something really good. If we produce a 1,000mph car and nobody gives a shit, we've failed," said Green.

Check out the article link for a video animation of how "they expect" the bullet car to perform.British engineers have unveiled plans for the world's first 1,000mph car, a muscular... more