fatkidlovescake

ok, so a little real life levitation anyone?

it isn't real levitation. it is what is known as quantum locking. take a superconductor, super cool it, and then throw in a hand full of magnets and the supercooled superconducting object becomes suspended in relation to the magnets which use their field to hold it in place (hence the term "locking"). very cool. here's a video of an object that has been quantum locked and all the neat-o things you can do with it. Theoretically applied, something like this would be the basis for all you folks out there wondering where your flying cars are at.

Give it a few decades till someone builds a magnetic road and devises a propulsion system. i am a fan of the roller coaster push/pull magnetic system which would use the road you're on to move you by changing the +/- poles of the magnet as you coast along to push/pull you to your destination. and just program a computer to make it all work, gas up your superconductor of a magic carpet with some liquid nitrogen and away you go. Granted the energy needed to do this would require a lot more nuclear power plants to be built...something all you hippies won't let happen regardless of the fact that splitting the atom is the greenest energy the universe knows. fucking hippies. I want my flying cars that run on nothing but liquid nitrogen!