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Yeah, the wire would be heavier than the ship.

That is a relatively fundamental result. With current materials, it's pretty much impossible to levitate anything against Earth's magnetic field. You can't put enough current through a wire to create a force bigger than its own gravity without using unreasonable amounts of power. Even if you put in that power, you'd melt the wire.



Why don't we just melt the ship? If we turn the whole thing into a liquid it could flow down the canal.




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