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I think all this power has pushed the old codger over the edge now, he is becoming a very dangerous man. Although he was quite unhinged already.

I was assured by the polishing brigade - the jag forum mob - painting them red would give me 300 more horsepower and would allow me to outbrake Schumacher's F1 car....

If you replace the smoky derv XJ with a last of the line XJ575 that won't be far from the truth.

I wouldn't mind one of them, but they command strong money still, and more than I can justify considering the car I have doesn't really get used.

Maybe I should get a snot green Astra

Most powerful jet engine ever built, 134.000lbs thrust. Rocketdyne F1 1.500.000lbs thrust. Over 11 times more powerful,  and the Saturn five Assembly produced more power than the whole of Spain at blast off, and burned 13.4 tons of propellant per second. But still just a spark🤣

And to think that just one of the Rocketdyne F1 units of the Saturn five Assembly on the Apollo programme had 55.000 BHP fuel pumps to supply it!  They were incredibly powerful but not even like a candle in the realms of space. 

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Speaking of space, Voyager is now 'one light day' from Earth,

Only took the thick end of 50 years at 40,000 mph to achieve.

One light day is about 16billion miles, so not exactly around the corner.

Yep.....we are talking big numbers when it comes to 'space'

According to Google if Voyager can keep going at the same velocity for 73000 years it could reach the nearest star.....other than the sun.

I may decide to stay around to witness that.

When you put it like that, it makes you realise just how futile the concept of space travel to other, earth-like, planets is. We will live on this rock until either we destroy it, or it destroys itself, and then no one will ever know we even existed.

Speaking of space, Voyager is now 'one light day' from Earth,

Only took the thick end of 50 years at 40,000 mph to achieve.

One light day is about 16billion miles, so not exactly around the corner.

Yep.....we are talking big numbers when it comes to 'space'

According to Google if Voyager can keep going at the same velocity for 73000 years it could reach the nearest star.....other than the sun.

I may decide to stay around to witness that.

Speaking of space, Voyager is now 'one light day' from Earth,

Only took the thick end of 50 years at 40,000 mph to achieve.

One light day is about 16billion miles, so not exactly around the corner.

Speaking of space, Voyager is now 'one light day' from Earth,

Only took the thick end of 50 years at 40,000 mph to achieve.

I was assured by the polishing brigade - the jag forum mob - painting them red would give me 300 more horsepower and would allow me to outbrake Schumacher's F1 car....

If you replace the smoky derv XJ with a last of the line XJ575 that won't be far from the truth.