[Jedd]

AIUI, viable room temperature superconductors are an existential threat to the coal & gas industries.

Worse / better yet, they'd massively disrupt the existing geopolitical power and wealth distribution.

[orionblastar]

Wasn't there some airplane crashes that had engineers on the flight that worked for Freescale or some other company in the superconductor market? Funny how those stories just faded away with few questions about how the airliner crashed. I am not trying to make a conspiracy theory, but they should have taken separate flights.

edit: Typo and clarification

[mmcconnell1618]

Snopes doesn’t indicate this is likely to be true. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mh370-patent-disappearance...

[x__x]

Where's the Snopes like site Snoping Snopes?

[imglorp]

Heh.

Also, Freescale does semiconductors. The patent was about wafer yields. Not superconductors :-)