A cheetah can go from a standstill to about 60 miles an hour in roughly three seconds, out-accelerating many sports cars, but it can’t hold that speed for long

Three seconds. That is roughly how long a cheetah needs to go from a dead stop to about 60 miles an hour. The Cheetah Conservation Fund goes a little further, citing acceleration to a top speed past 110 km/h in just over three seconds. Numbers like these tend to get pressed into a familiar comparison: [...] The post A cheetah can go from a standstill to about 60 miles an hour in roughly three seconds, out-accelerating many sports cars, but it can’t hold that speed for long appeared first on Spac