• Question: If you could build anything that should be impossible to engineer what would it be?

    Asked by bumblebee99 to Amanda, Ben, Dan, Gary, Samer on 19 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Dan Weatherill

      Dan Weatherill answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      don’t know if this is a fair answer because we’re not sure whether it’s impossible or not, but a room temperature superconductor would be my thing.

      If superconductors worked at room temperature, it would change so much about the world, and enable so many exciting things, like cheap hovering cars and trains, hospital MRI scanners that fit in a digital camera sized box, and it would save a lot of energy currently lost in power lines.

    • Photo: Gary Boorman

      Gary Boorman answered on 19 Jun 2013:

      A Time Machine (and it would be impossible to engineer).

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