Science and Engineering for the hell of it
The purpose of Bloodhound is to push the boundaries of what is possible and is known.
In other words - Why do it? Because we can't (yet).
For example - we know that we can fly aircraft at very high speeds but the air kind of gets out of the way. What happens to soil at when something is running over it at 1000mph? No one knows whether the shockwave from the supersonic air will pulverise the ground or not because no one has done it before.
How do you create wheels of the necessary size that rotate that fast without them disintegrating from centripetal forces? This will have applications in other machines.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
