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shared by Mars Base on 04 Aug 12 - No Cached

Sarah the cheetah has shattered the world record for the standing 100-meter dash, clocking a time of 5.95 seconds—making Olympian Usain Bolt's world record of 9.58 seconds look positively stodgy by comparison
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USA Track & Field-certified course established by the Cincinnati Zoo, the 11-year-old cheetah was radar-timed at up to 61 miles (98 kilometers) an hour
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National Geographic magazine
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featured in its November issue, which will include unprecedented high-speed pictures
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June 20 sprint is the fastest timed 100 meters ever run by anything on the planet
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five cheetahs each completed several sprints a day
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bolting out of the back of one of the zoo's vans and chasing fluffy toy dogs as they were pulled across a meadow on a high-speed cord.
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used to long sprints, regularly running for zoo crowds
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not only good for the individual cats, who get much-needed exercise, but good for the species as well:
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zoo's track-star cheetahs have helped raise over a million U.S. dollars for conservation
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almost certain that cheetahs in the wild—lean, hungry, chasing down antelopes for their own survival or that of their cubs—have run considerably faster.
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shared by Mars Base on 06 Sep 12 - No Cached

Boston Dynamics' Cheetah
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fastest a robot had ever run
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was coursing along at 18 miles per hour
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that up to a frightening 28.3 MPH.
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Usain Bolt's peak speed during the 100-meter dash was 27.78 MPH
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Cheetah, for now, is tethered to an external power supply, and runs on an indoor treadmill.
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Next year, however, Boston Dynamics plans to unleash Wildcat (pictured above), a Cheetah that's designed to run untethered.
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