Read the whole article because it’s hilarious.

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      23 hours ago

      MRIs are entirely electrical right? They just use liquid helium for cooling im pretty sure.

      Obviously there are a bunch of mechanical parts as well, that goes without saying i think though. Most people wouldn’t be able to tell you the difference between mechanical logic and solid state logic anyway.

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        7 hours ago

        Yes, you are right, but I meant the safety shutoff mechanism. Normally it just cuts the power to all dangerous stuff or brings it to a safe state. Here it’s not “cutting the power to the magnet”, it’s physically releasing the helium and damaging the superconductor in the process.