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Palm-sized magnet reaches 42 tesla, approaching the strength of the world’s most powerful magnets while using a few thousand times less power and over 1,000 times smaller coil volumes (interestingengineering.com)

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Unfortunately, Boeing 777s are made of aluminum. Non-ferrous.

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[–] Redjard@reddthat.com 2 points 7 months ago

At these field strengths you can probably wiggle the magnet and pull up the plane via eddie currents.

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