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Fastest animal
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The correct answer is an unlucky sentient manhole cover, that incidentally was thinking “Oh no, not again”.
Love the HH reference, but you're the second person to mention a manhole cover. What's the story there?
If I recall correctly the fastest object ever was a manhole cover after an explosion. If it was sentient then it would be the fastest creature.
BRB, going to look up the incedent.
Edit: Here you go
A one ton iron vent cap (sewer plate) moved so fast it vaporized. Iron into gas, just add velocity in atmo. That's so fucking cool.
No, it was clearly not cool, hence the vaporization.
Here you go! It’s a fun read.
That's what's known in the industry as "an oopsie". Almost at the "snafu" threshold over which it would be likely to cause a brouhaha.
It was within their safety factor of 50,001