First off, I really don't recommend it. Not speaking from personal experience, but in the context of the fastest man-made object, the environment just wouldn't be suitable for people (and that's putting it lightly hahaha, don't worry, the joke will make sense in a second.)
You may (or may not) have seen in the news or somewhere on the internet that recently, NASA published the first wave of data from the Parker Solar Probe, which you can read a little bit about here (get it now? Lightly? Sun? hahaha I'm so sorry.) Launched on August 12, 2018, this hearty little piece of tech is designed to withstand temperatures up to1370 °C (or, 2500 °F for those of us who prefer a more nonsensical scale of temperature.) It has to have a high temperature tolerance because it currently holds the record for closest man-made object to the Sun at an astonishing 18.7 Gm (that's Gigameters, or 1 billion meters) from the Sun's surface! Okay, it sounds like that's a huge distance, but remember Earth is about 147.5 Gm from the Sun. And Parker is only going to get closer! Over the course of the next 6(ish) years, Parker is scheduled to orbit the Sun a total of 24 times, each time getting closer and closer. This is due to the fact that it will perform 7 flybys of Venus during the course of its mission; each time it passes our brightest planet, the gravitational tug will slightly warp Parker's orbital path, increasing the eccentricity and reducing the size of the orbit. And because the probe is getting closer and closer to the Sun, it also means that it's getting faster, and faster, and faster.And that's why you're here, right? Because you read the clickbaity title and wanted to become one with Sonic the Hedgehog? Well if you ever wanted to go fast, you could've hitched a ride on Parker because not only does it hold the aforementioned record, it also holds the record for the fastest manmade object ever! Its current record is 109 km/s; that's 244255 mph! And it's only going to get faster.By the end of its mission, on its final pass around the Sun, Parker will reach an estimated 192 km/s; a blinding 429491 mph! And at that time it will be 6.2 Gm from the surface of the Sun!
So yeah, going really, really fast is easy when you have a massive ball of exploding plasma bending spacetime and a little heat-resistant buggy swooping around it at almost half a million miles per hour, but unless you have a super insulated space suit, some AC, and plenty of ice water, I don't think you're going to be able to accept your Guinness World Record for "Fastest Human Alive"... Actually even if you had all of that, I'm sure you'd still be toast. Yes, I just had to get one more pun in. Wocka Wocka!
You may (or may not) have seen in the news or somewhere on the internet that recently, NASA published the first wave of data from the Parker Solar Probe, which you can read a little bit about here (get it now? Lightly? Sun? hahaha I'm so sorry.) Launched on August 12, 2018, this hearty little piece of tech is designed to withstand temperatures up to1370 °C (or, 2500 °F for those of us who prefer a more nonsensical scale of temperature.) It has to have a high temperature tolerance because it currently holds the record for closest man-made object to the Sun at an astonishing 18.7 Gm (that's Gigameters, or 1 billion meters) from the Sun's surface! Okay, it sounds like that's a huge distance, but remember Earth is about 147.5 Gm from the Sun. And Parker is only going to get closer! Over the course of the next 6(ish) years, Parker is scheduled to orbit the Sun a total of 24 times, each time getting closer and closer. This is due to the fact that it will perform 7 flybys of Venus during the course of its mission; each time it passes our brightest planet, the gravitational tug will slightly warp Parker's orbital path, increasing the eccentricity and reducing the size of the orbit. And because the probe is getting closer and closer to the Sun, it also means that it's getting faster, and faster, and faster.And that's why you're here, right? Because you read the clickbaity title and wanted to become one with Sonic the Hedgehog? Well if you ever wanted to go fast, you could've hitched a ride on Parker because not only does it hold the aforementioned record, it also holds the record for the fastest manmade object ever! Its current record is 109 km/s; that's 244255 mph! And it's only going to get faster.By the end of its mission, on its final pass around the Sun, Parker will reach an estimated 192 km/s; a blinding 429491 mph! And at that time it will be 6.2 Gm from the surface of the Sun!
So yeah, going really, really fast is easy when you have a massive ball of exploding plasma bending spacetime and a little heat-resistant buggy swooping around it at almost half a million miles per hour, but unless you have a super insulated space suit, some AC, and plenty of ice water, I don't think you're going to be able to accept your Guinness World Record for "Fastest Human Alive"... Actually even if you had all of that, I'm sure you'd still be toast. Yes, I just had to get one more pun in. Wocka Wocka!
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