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The Unsettler
Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Lantanna TX
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Quantum Levitation
Cool stuff
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Location: Hamburg & Vancouver
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Yes. Very cool.
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winter-hater club member
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: salt lake city, utah
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wow.
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Way cool. Accent is from Brazil.
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10-17-2011, 09:06 PM
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Family Values
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Awesome
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10-17-2011, 09:24 PM
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 Yea, that's cool. |
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Slackerous Maximus
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Columbus, OH
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Very cool.
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10-17-2011, 09:43 PM
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Location: Linn County, Oregon
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trying to think of a practical use....anybody have any thoughts?
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10-17-2011, 09:46 PM
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Cogito Ergo Sum
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Wonder how they came up with that?
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10-17-2011, 09:50 PM
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Family Values
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Location: Los Angeles, CA
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Superconductivity will make computers lightning fast, reduce losses from power generation, make public transportation (i.e. Monorail type trains) cost next to nothing. TONS of practical applications for superconductivity. Problem is, we can't find anything that does it without it being really friggin cold.
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10-17-2011, 10:08 PM
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I love technology!
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10-17-2011, 10:22 PM
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10-17-2011, 10:24 PM
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Cogito Ergo Sum
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10-17-2011, 10:26 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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Übercool!
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10-17-2011, 10:34 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: South of Sweden
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Excellent. I can see a few fluffer applications!
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10-17-2011, 10:55 PM
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Meissner effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This has been known about since 1933. High temperature superconductors made this sort of levitation capable with liquid nitrogen cooling in the late 80's. Lack of progress in this research field has kept transition temperatures of superconductors from making any major strides in the last two decades. The one hope is that, with enough work, a room temperature superconductor can be found and processed in quantity. Everything gets faster, better, cheaper once that happens. Electricity can be transmitted long distances without losses. Supercomputers would become more efficient, becoming faster without increase in thermal problems. Levitating trains, mass driver orbital launch platforms, superconducting quantum interference devices used as super-detailed MRI machines that could be wearable, portable devices instead of the room-sized machines we have now, you name it.... One of the many parts of science that, fundamentally, is very sound, very possible, and just requires funding. There is nothing magic or impossible about finding more high temperature superconductors that make all these things possible. It just takes time, people, and lots of money. The benefits of finding such materials would take years to pay off, but would do so in ways that would change our world.
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10-17-2011, 11:12 PM
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When I won the lottery,I used my dough to.......
wait, this will take much more dough than that, who has that kinda dough? |
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Yes,yes they do.. but even with that much do..err scratch, that still have not..
So the question is.. You are a large corporation,with all the dough n the world..and you don't build this....why? |
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