Is one much like the other......?

[rigel_kent]

I'm watching this show ("Megabuilders") on building a particle detector, which they are calling, at 8000 tons, the largest machine on earth. All well and good, I can believe that. I like the way the show tries to describe the methods or attributes of whatever they are building with seemingly everyday things for the viewer for perspective. This is

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[superflippy]

D-Mac's latest issue of Air & Space magazine has an article about megalifters, airplanes that are like flying hangars. Their size is incredible and I like their weird, puffy-looking shapes. So, yeah, I'd say something that big could fly.

How many fully loaded Super Guppies would it take to equal the weight of a giant superconducting magnet?