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Scientist are working on magnetic levitation and we may have it in the future. But, for now we use wind propulsion, scientist have invented a hovercraft that gets three feet off the air and uses wind to travel. For the magnetic levitation however scientists around the world would have to implant very strong magnets in the Earths' crust which will mess with electronic equipment. Scientists have yet to fix this problem, as for potential well people picture it as in the movie Star Wars with levitating "speeders" and other hovercraft.

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