Wow. Just wow.

I was vaguely hoping the answer would involve drugs.

 

kinder to the environment...

 

Ref. another thread: I initially read that first word as German...
AIMNSAA

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According to :-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_speed_record

Noble set the record in 1983 with Thrust II (633mph) and then
his team (Green driving) set it again with Thrst SSC (766) in 1997.

No one else broke his first one before the replay.

So:- He has quite a history of the completely pointless.

I read Noble's book on the SSC and while Thrust II was just
a quick hack, some real development went into SSC. They
apparently discovered that Thrust II was a very small
margin slower than Vr[1] when they decided they had done
enough. Some of the team wanted another run and if they
had done one they would have been going for an air speed
record in addition to the LSR already achieved. I forget
who said no.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_speeds