Fastest thing on the planet

[westender]

I quite like microscopes and high speed photography... they do no harm and they show ye HUNNERS of dead dead interesting stuff!!

Fastest thing on the planet, introduced by lovely Richard Hammond:

www.bbc.co.uk/nature/species/Pilobolus_crystallinus#p007vz26

[rdt2]

Weeeellllll, not like me to be pedantic (?) but this is the enchineering thread: 20 mph is hardly the fastest thing on the planet - I suppose he means the greatest acceleration.

[westender]

Hurray! You get a prize.

Still brilliant pictures but.