Posts Tagged: hovercraft
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Asteroid-Hunting Arctic Hovercraft Just Not As Cool As It Should Be

Despite having no frame of reference for things that hover other than sci-fi vehicles like skateboards in Back in to the Future II, Jesus, I did think the Griffon Hovercraft that's traversing the Arctic for evidence of an asteroid strike would be up my alleyway. But according to this Wired article, it's not powered by something cool like super-scary magnets that could kill you by sucking out all the iron particles in your blood stream like Magneto which is what I needed it to be. It's powered by air or some shit. "[It] weighs six tons but exerts no more pressure on any patch of ice than a seagull [...]