Ever wonder what speeding thru big magnets would do to computers and metal objects?

Actually this exists, it’s just not drawn correctly. It is what we now call a “Maglev train,” and they are operational in Japan and China as the fastest trains in the world. They levitate just as does the train in the illustration above, but closer to the ground.

Electromagnetic Rapid Transit System , Hypothesized future transportation project in the Soviet Union, 1930.