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Background for non-physics people
- Superconductors can carry a huge electrical current when they are cooled to almost absolute zero.
- Superconductors make really good electromagnets
- Electromagnets can be used to deflect cosmic particles, which mess up computers and give people cancer
Detech skillz!

Jeff says (8:45 PM):
*the proposed model for superconducting wores was
*running liquid helium through the core of the wire
Jeff says (8:46 PM):
*which sounds inefficient as all fuck

Max says (8:46 PM):
*mmmm

Jeff says (8:46 PM):
*unless it's under the ocean shit

Max says (8:46 PM):
*well if you could get a nice vacuum
*could be okay
*omg does that mean in space
*superconductors are fucking mad

Jeff says (8:46 PM):
*vacuum prevents losses to convection
*but not radiation
*ooh it would

Max says (8:47 PM):
*ooooh forgot about that

Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*as in just have some on the outside of your ship
*and when you hit space
*FREE POWAH

Max says (8:47 PM):
*LOL

Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*if it doesn't burn away

Max says (8:47 PM):
*and your solar panels at the front go
*NGEWWEEEEEEEE MAKE POWAH

Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*dude it would be hax
*oh it would power that magnetosphere!

Max says (8:47 PM):
*hahahhaahahahaha

Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*in 2008

Max says (8:47 PM):
*LOL YES

Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*THE MORE SUN YOU GET
*THE MORE IT DEFLECTS
*AHAHAHA

Max says (8:47 PM):
*THE MORE POWAH

Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*OMFG

Max says (8:47 PM):
*DOOOD OOOD ODDOOOO

Jeff says (8:47 PM):
*PERFECT

Max says (8:47 PM):
*THE SHAMPOO GUY LOL

Jeff says (8:48 PM):
*AHAHAHA

Max says (8:48 PM):
*do you know what im talking about hahahahah

Jeff says (8:48 PM):
*old spice right

Max says (8:48 PM):
*yeah!

Jeff says (8:48 PM):
*i'ma posting this shit it's so hax


Patent pending.


Addendum:
Tom said "space isnt cold". Interestingly, he may have a point.
Space definitely has a low temperature. Temperature is the measure of excitement of the surrounding molecules, and since there are almost no molecules in space, you get no temperature. If you put a thermometer in space, you'll have to wait forever for a gas molecule to impact on the glass.
However, space is also a vacuum. That means the only way anything can lose heat is via radiation. The way objects lose heat (on Earth) is mainly via convection, which is imparting heat onto surrounding molecules. There are no molecules in space, so heat takes much longer than expected to dissipate into space.
So while it has a low temperature, that low temperature does not mean it sucks heat out of objects quickly. Cool!