Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "The Insane Transportation of a 17-ton Magnet" video.

  1. We've got six of these magnets at CERN, we don't need them, we just keep building them because we know US laboratories like them. They are kept in a broom closet with the paper towels.
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  2. I'm not American and even I know that Fermilab is one of the biggest and most prestigious labs in the US, it has the largest particle accelerators in the Americas and it's buildings have featured in half of the American sci-fi movies of the 80's like Space Camp and D.A.R.Y.L.
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  3. It's an electromagnet, it has no magnetic field without power.
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  4.  @collinscody57  Good thing that is what cranes are for.
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