Superconducting maglev toy train
WANTS
( Hummel has had balls removed, Tue 23 Sep 2008, 1:56, Reply)

that...
that's fucking awesome, that is.
( Mushroom, Tue 23 Sep 2008, 2:12, Reply)

That's amazing!
Surely technology like that would prevent derailing trains, however would it be possible to do on a larger scale?
( WebmasterFF has nothing to do but write this post on, Tue 23 Sep 2008, 2:41, Reply)

The holy grail of science
is a room temperature superconductor.
(funkenstein Born from an egg on a mountain top, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 21:34, Reply)

Room temperature is a bit much to ask...
... but engineering would be satisfied with one where the energy cost of cooling the conductor was less than the resistive losses :)
(douchebarge, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 6:21, Reply)

Pardon the Pun
They've been trying to get one off the ground over at Old Dominion University. The diff 'tween ODU's and the Japanese thing is that the 'guts' of the system are in the car, not the track. Alignment problems are the main reason they haven't been able to make a good show of it.
(thanatos, Mon 29 Sep 2008, 2:30, Reply)

YES
in related news
(ttdi wishes he had come up with a better sig before, Tue 23 Sep 2008, 2:59, Reply)

haha
ace
( Jorvic Englishness means always having to say youre sorry, Tue 23 Sep 2008, 12:06, Reply)

That is superb
syou-perb.
( The Legendary Pink Dot, Tue 23 Sep 2008, 8:48, Reply)

that's awesome
I'd love to get one for a toy for my son - assuming the cold wouldn't give him frostbite.
( rob You should follow me http://twitter.com/robmanuel, Tue 23 Sep 2008, 9:37, Reply)

This could easily be from
Look Around You
( krang, Tue 23 Sep 2008, 10:08, Reply)

haha
its the same narrator isn't it?
( the RAND corporation - thats Hitlertainment..., Tue 23 Sep 2008, 12:17, Reply)

i fucking love science me
that totally freakin' rocks
( Stallion_Explosion (formerly known as crab_bloke), Tue 23 Sep 2008, 10:16, Reply)

now that's superb

( The Great Architect, Tue 23 Sep 2008, 10:20, Reply)

This reminded me of Look Around You for some reason.
Very neat! Needs more synthesiser Patel
( LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Tue 23 Sep 2008, 10:26, Reply)

Brilliant stuff!
I FUCKING HATE that euro-normalised-english accent though.

STOP IT
( Dixipoos Bye Bye Blackbird, Tue 23 Sep 2008, 11:04, Reply)

Anyone else think of the Back to the Future train

( mike woz ere puts the 'sexy' in 'dyslexia', Tue 23 Sep 2008, 13:41, Reply)

The voiceover is worse..
..than I envisanged
( bachgammon has an unshakable alibi for, Tue 23 Sep 2008, 23:12, Reply)

Check out the way
he says "envisaged" at 4:10!
( IndieSinger watch my Mentos thing - http://tinyurl.com/6au8jl, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 17:04, Reply)

teehee
I *knew* I wouldn't be the only one to notice that.
( niles, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 17:37, Reply)

I thought so too.
That's why I scrolled down. ;D
(Lord NAgasaki, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 6:40, Reply)

Envisage
That was criminal. But I just have to say it like that from now on.
(RobDonkey, Fri 26 Sep 2008, 19:56, Reply)

Incidentally...
here's a recipe:
www.chem.ox.ac.uk/vrchemistry/super/synthesis.html

Although, one suspects the ingredients may be a little more expensive than the speaker in this week's newsletter.

*Pops down to the lab to try to find Yttrium, Copper and Barium Nitrates*

Woo!
( clorey mcnuggety, Sat 27 Sep 2008, 10:37, Reply)

But-
how would one go about bringing this train to a halt at stations, if it were "scaled up"?
( Thinker actually likes George Lamb., Sat 27 Sep 2008, 19:26, Reply)

Oh in that case..
Massive rocket jets designed to act as air brakes... problem solved.
(catbrain, Sun 28 Sep 2008, 21:49, Reply)

shouldnt he be wearing gloves? he looked a bit shakey when putting some of that nitrogen in
(Osiris64 ... thats no moon ..., Wed 1 Oct 2008, 12:02, Reply)