Meteortites typically travel between 12 and 25 miles per second.
Convert this range to miles per hour.
Also convert it to meters per second.
In the 1930's, people thought the fastest bullet that would ever be shot
came from a .22 caliber gun, at 4000 ft/sec. Bigger bullets, like
the ones that come out of a .30/06, are going slower, at around 2700 ft/sec.
Since then, scientists have found a "speed limit" for chemical driven
bullets: 6000 ft/sec.
Convert the three speeds mentioned into miles per hour.
Also convert them to meters per second.
Scientists have created a gun that
uses magnets to shoot projectiles at 20 kilometers per second.
Convert this speed to miles/hour.
Also convert it to Km/Hr.
The speed of light is 300000000meters/sec.
Convert this to miles/hour.
Blood traveling through your aorta moves about
.4meters/sec.
Convert to ft/sec.
Also convert to mi/hr.
SOME OF THE ABOVE INFO CAME FROM THE FOLLOWING
SOURCES:
http://karws.gso.uri.edu/JFK/scientific_topics/wound_ballistics/How_a_high-speed.html
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF10/1097.html
http://www.sandia.gov/media/NewsRel/NR2001/flyer.htm
http://physics.mtsu.edu/~phys2010/Lectures/L18_-_L23/L20/Ex_20_1/Soln_20_1/soln_20_1.html