What's the Fastest Spacecraft Ever?

Life's Little Mysteries ^ | 6/17/2010 | Denise Chow

[AFreeBird]

I think the USS Excelsior was a transwarp ship. But Scotty thought it was a piece of junk.

[101voodoo]

Geddoutta here, I used to EAT Sport Fury’s for breakfast!!

My rig had 3 twins, 4:11 gears and a Hurst shifter. Used to avg about 6 mpg, but gasoline was about 30 cents a gallon so who cared.

But I’m a tellin’ ya, she was a real screamer!!

[Rebelbase]

“Millennium Falcon”

She made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.

[Hacklehead]

Any ship with "the traveler" aboard could travel BETWEEN galaxies in seconds.

[Ro_Thunder]

Oh dear God, they've gone.. PLAID!!!

[zeugma]

This 1,054 pound (478 kg), piano-sized spacecraft, which launched in January 2006, sped away from the Earth at a blistering pace of 36,000 miles per hour (almost 58,000 kilometers per hour).

 Piano sized? Would that be an upright, baby grand, or grand piano? Idiots.

[zeugma]

That would be the starship Heart of Gold, the first space craft to contain the Infinite Improbability Drive.

While the Heart of Gold was a sweet ship, Infinite Improbability Drives are kind of wanky.  The Bistromath seemed like a more elegant way to travel.

[zeugma]

She made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.

That line has always bothered me. A parsec is a unit of distance. Then again, they never really explained exactly what a "kessel run" was.

[TalonDJ]

Well you certainly don't have to do all that mucking about with improbability.

[TalonDJ]

A parsec is a unit of distance. Then again, they never really explained exactly what a "kessel run" was.

In a book they described it as a particularly hazardous area of space that most people went well around. Hence the straighter paths were more dangerous and his was a particularly short path.

[xp38]

Kessel in german is a metal pot for stewing or boiling; usually has a lid or a very large pot that is used for boiling. My conclusion is that it had something to do with pot smuggling. :)

[MrB]

Kessel was also referred to by C3PO -
being forced to work in the spice mines of Kessel.

[jfkcv67bt]

I think my ‘69 Charger RT would have enjoyed meeting your Goat. 440, 2 Holley double pumpers, high-rise manifold, dual point ignition, and other goodies It would be fun regardless!

[101voodoo]

I lived in Northern NJ and always had a shotgun rider with me. If the car we were racing looked as if it was pulling ahead, my guy would shoot out a tire.

We never lost. ‘course it did get a bit tough to find soemone to play with after a bit....

[jfkcv67bt]

Now that doesn’t sound like fun! I would hate to lose a tire-they were expensive!

[101voodoo]

In NJ we never paid for our tires, someone else did.

[GraceG]

“I’m gonna go with the Delta Flyer which attained warp 10...also known as infinite speed...yeah, that’s it... “

Nope it was the Shuttlepod Cochrane that hit warp 10 then people turned into lizards and the fans groaned loud enough to be he4ard from the Delta Quadrant...

I am such a geek.

[GraceG]

“That would be the starship Heart of Gold, the first space craft to contain the Infinite Improbability Drive.

While the Heart of Gold was a sweet ship, Infinite Improbability Drives are kind of wanky. The Bistromath seemed like a more elegant way to travel. “

Yeah, though I prefer a TARDIS.....

[zeugma]

In a book they described it as a particularly hazardous area of space that most people went well around. Hence the straighter paths were more dangerous and his was a particularly short path.

That's the first explanation I've seen that actually makes sense. Thanks!

[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

That is the size of New Horizons.The spacecraft is comparable in size and general shape to a grand piano and has been compared to a “piano glued to a sports-car-sized satellite dish

http://triton.towson.edu/~schmitt/gl/index.php?topic=f07report2