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http://www.livescience.com/technology/a … tml]Weighs 15 tons
*...and its magnetic field is 420,000 times stronger than Earth's. 13 years of development, cost of $16 million. However, it's apparently not the strongest magnet already in use.
Hopes for use in medicine, materials research, etc.
--Cindy
We all know [i]those[/i] Venusians: Doing their hair in shock waves, smoking electrical coronas, wearing Van Allen belts and resting their tiny elbows on a Geiger counter...
--John Sladek (The New Apocrypha)
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now wouldn't this be great for protecting Mars from radiation?...
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Headlines are funny when I here the magnet is 420000 times as strong as earths magnetic field I am like, yeah and my compos is starting to spin. Of course they mean flux density and not total flux but so what I don't even know how much stronger then the earths magnetic field a fridge magnet is and I don't know what point they are measuring the "field" at. Be it the equator, north pole or the centre of the earth. The real interesting thing about this article is the applications to MRI imaging and not sensationalistic numbers
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