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Re:The Quest for Room-Temperature Superconductors by marcosdumay on Friday April 19, 2019 @11:40AM (#19700443)
Well, from those 3 a teleporter would probably have some economical use, the other 2 not so much.

Besides, "probably impossible" seems to be a large overrating of our knowledge of superconductivity.

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Re:The Quest for Room-Temperature Superconductors by jandrese on Friday April 19, 2019 @02:22PM (#19701747)
You don't think there would be an economical use for FTL travel? I mean I guess it depends on the details (it requires a spaceship that is a billion metric tons and requires a dozen working fusion cores to power it to get to 1.1C for example), but I can imagine a ton of uses for FTL technology.

Transporters would be more useful in a day to day setting, but that doesn't mean FTL is academic.

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