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Re:The Inventor of the Navy's 'UFO Patents' by Jedd on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @09:39PM (#22124334)
AIUI, viable room temperature superconductors are an existential threat to the coal & gas industries.

Worse / better yet, they'd massively disrupt the existing geopolitical power and wealth distribution.

Re:The Inventor of the Navy's 'UFO Patents' by orionblastar on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @09:43PM (#22124351)
Wasn't there some airplane crashes that had engineers on the flight that worked for Freescale or some other company in the superconductor market? Funny how those stories just faded away with few questions about how the airliner crashed. I am not trying to make a conspiracy theory, but they should have taken separate flights.

edit: Typo and clarification

Re:The Inventor of the Navy's 'UFO Patents' by mmcconnell1618 on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:10PM (#22124480)
Snopes doesn’t indicate this is likely to be true. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mh370-patent-disappearance...
Re:The Inventor of the Navy's 'UFO Patents' by x__x on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @11:23PM (#22124852)
Where's the Snopes like site Snoping Snopes?
Re:The Inventor of the Navy's 'UFO Patents' by imglorp on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @10:26PM (#22124558)
Heh.

Also, Freescale does semiconductors. The patent was about wafer yields. Not superconductors :-)