Epic win

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-&-entertainment/little-mix-to-release-free%11jazz-concept-album-about-egyptian-gods-201112134666/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwzN4633mpI

http://vimeo.com/31158841

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILxjxfB4zNk

just came to post that^
soo good

http://www.damnlol.com/i/7070c093ecb2b76b55004766a19e7519.jpg

^^^ Vinnie Jones video is inspired. Would be great to see other actors playing their typical role in similar videos.

http://www.howies.co.uk/brainfood/?p=22675

That wipeout vid is fake

hah!

You're doing it wrong

Man that was so good! (BHF)

That wipeout vid is faker than my girlfriends orgasms.

I dont think it is you know, quantum levitation is crazy stuff

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Levitation - YouTube[/ame]

The thing about that WipEout video that makes me think it might be fake is the fact that they are controlling the model craft remotely. Also, the fact that the superconducting material used above is super thin (it seems thicker due to liquid nitrogen 'ice') enabling it to be trapped in a magnetic field makes me think it wouldn't work with the chunky model WipEout craft...

^ Yeah but if the tracks were electromagnets and you could accurately manipulate the magnetic field that the craft were 'locked' into it is possible to do what they were doing. Effectively it is not the craft that are actually moving, but the magnetic field that they are using to levitate.

Sure, but how could you manipulate an entire series of electromagnets with a simple dial?

Still wouldn't work with those bulky hover craft model thingies...

Superconductivity and magnetic field do not like each other. When possible, the superconductor will expel all the magnetic field from inside. This is the Meissner effect. In our case, since the superconductor is extremely thin, the magnetic field DOES penetrates. However, it does that in discrete quantities (this is quantum physics after all! ) called flux tubes.

As far as I see it the theory is relatively simple; have a series of circuits that essentially consist of a computer controlled switch and an electromagnet that form the track, these circuits are controlled by computer and switch on and off in order to produce the motion of the craft. To engineer it would however be much more complicated

You are making the assumption that the hovercraft thingies are constructed entirely out of superconductive material, I would suggest that this is wrong. If it were the case the entire craft would be a block of ice. What if there was a thin strip of superconductive material at the "core" of the craft that was surrounded by a lightweight material that is not effected by magnetic fields (say plastic)?

Please bear in mind that the article that you have cited takes a VERY complex subject that many academics in the field of physics have a hard time comprehending and boils it down into a couple of paragraphs. If superconductors do not like magnetic fields so much, why is it that one of the most common applied uses of superconductors is to generate unbelievably powerful magnetic fields in MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) scanners?

^ Like it! You've convinced me, now how long until I can pilot a full size version?

Has this been resolved yet?

Can we get back to epic wins?

wipeout is shit anyway

Piloting a full-size-weaponised-space-age-hover-craft-thingy™ would be totally epic win. But yes, on with proper Epic Win.

not too much of a win, and probabaly a repost.
but anything to get off all this geek shit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcvjoWOwnn4

while playing this too
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0kGAz6HYM8

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Greatest Speech Ever Made - YouTube[/ame]

Prefer this version tbh (if you're going to go for a version with music anyway.)

yes, and the pictures give extra impact fo sho
but i assumed that that video must definately be a repost?
and thought i'd try keep it fresh, for fear of cock punches or scary PMs