Standing on the platform of a small-town train station, the wind rips through our hair and the ground rumbles as a sleek white ICE train shoots past at several hundred kilometers an hour (they are capable of 300 km/hour), that is, as far as I know, faster than a speeding bullet.  On an ICE you can get from Frankfurt to Paris (600 kilometers!) in under four hours.  They could get you to the moon in 55 days, if they went that far.