This creature is the fastest in the world. What is it, and what is its approximate top speed?

Arpeggionist

A cow dropping from a plane flying at 30,000 feet. Jul 11 05, 9:06 AM

mochyn

all creatures dropped from planes reach the same speed Jul 11 05, 9:29 AM

mooseman93

peregrine falcon, about 270 miles per hour Jul 11 05, 9:32 AM

Arpeggionist

A creature dropped from a plane would fall faster than that. Jul 11 05, 11:07 AM

dejavucub4

Unless its some creature crawling downward on a peregrine falcon during its dive I'll go with peregrine falcon also.Terminal velocity and atmosheric resistance restricts most naturaly falling objects to about 120 M.P.H. Jul 11 05, 2:21 PM

barker111

Man moves pretty quick when he or she is hurtling into space aboard a rocket. Jul 11 05, 2:51 PM

Arpeggionist

Well, let's see now. about 240,000 miles to the moon (give or take), 4 days to get there - that's 60,000 miles a day. 60,000/24 =... (carry the 1...) You're right, humans would go about 2,500 MPH on average (or really a bit more) on a flight to the moon. Jul 11 05, 3:28 PM

Arpeggionist

And humans would go a couple times faster than that to Mars (it would take about 6 months to get 250,000,000 miles away - you do the math on that one). Jul 11 05, 3:29 PM

TheAlphaWolf

but then again, we are not the only organisms to have traveled/travel in a rocket Jul 11 05, 4:50 PM

peasypod

Er, have we all just skipped over the word 'rocket' here by any chance? ;) Now, to answer the question, as mosey already has, it's the Peregrine falcon first, and the cheetah on land with 70mph per hour. (Pronghorn comes mighty close to that as well) http://www.nwf.org/wildlife/americanpronghorn/fastest.cfm Jul 11 05, 9:51 PM

romeomikegolf

Yays to mooseman,although 270mph is a bit high, and to Peasey. http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/p/peregrine/did_you_know.asp Jul 11 05, 10:37 PM

H0T-Lead

The human, when seated in the space shuttle, reaches speeds in excess of 17,000 mph during re-entry. Jul 12 05, 7:37 AM