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  2. Four-wheel drive - Wikipedia

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    Although Russia had their own jeep-like vehicle (the GAZ-64) up and running in 1940, a year earlier than the American jeep, in the early years of the war, they relied significantly on Lend-Lease vehicles, provided by the western allies. In 1943, they launched a further-developed version: the GAZ-67.

  3. Tachyon - Wikipedia

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    A tachyon (/ ˈ t æ k i ɒ n /) or tachyonic particle is a hypothetical particle that always travels faster than light. Physicists believe that faster-than-light particles cannot exist because they are inconsistent with the known laws of physics. [1] [2] If such particles did exist

  4. Orders of magnitude (time) - Wikipedia

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    31.6 Ps (1000 Ma, 1 Ga): One giga-annum (Ga), one billion years, the largest fixed time unit used in the standard geological time scale, approximately the order of magnitude of an eon, the largest division of geological time. +1 Ga: The estimated remaining habitable lifetime of Earth, according to some models.

  5. Faster Than Fear - Wikipedia

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    Faster Than Fear (German: Schneller als die Angst) is a 2022 German TV series directed by Florian Baxmeyer. [1] It's based on an original idea from Klaus Arriens and Thomas Wilke who also wrote the scripts for all six episodes.

  6. Blackbird (wind-powered vehicle) - Wikipedia

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    The rotor may be connected via a drive train to wheels or to a generator that provides electrical power to electric motors that drive the wheels. [6] A vehicle with a bladed rotor mechanically connected to the wheels can be designed to go at a speed faster than that of the wind, both directly into the wind and directly downwind.

  7. Wind-powered vehicle - Wikipedia

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    He achieved two validated milestones, going both directly downwind and directly upwind faster than the speed of the prevailing wind. Downwind—In 2010, Blackbird set the world's first certified record for going directly downwind faster than the wind, using only wind power. [28]

  8. Faster (2010 film) - Wikipedia

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    Faster is a 2010 American action thriller film directed by George Tillman Jr. [4] The film stars Dwayne Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Carla Gugino, Maggie Grace, Moon Bloodgood, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Tom Berenger. Faster was released on November 24, 2010. The film received mixed reviews from critics and grossed $35 ...

  9. History of hard disk drives - Wikipedia

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    The disk drive created a new level in the computer data hierarchy, then termed Random Access Storage but today known as secondary storage, less expensive and slower than main memory (then typically drums and later core memory) but faster and more expensive than tape drives. [3]