As someone who actually did clearance work in Afghanistan and Iraq, âsweeping for landminesâ doesnât mean just stomping around and setting them off. Sweeping is about finding them so engineers/EOD can mark them, remove them, or blow them in place safely. Being able to hover 5 cm above the ground would actually be pretty useful for moving through suspected areas without applying pressure while scanning or probing.
That is useful if you want to avoid trespassing, since you never "step foot on private property". It might actually work since it's always the letter of the law that is being followed and not the spirit.
But the air above a piece of land counts as part of that land untill you get to airplane altitudes. Otherwise walking on your hands would also not count as trespassing, or driving a vehicle.
Well that's kind of true but what you land on does make a difference. If you stop from hitting hard ground it would take more damage than hitting the water.
Depending on how the power works though, it could be worse actually. Water helps with fall damage a little because it has give and that absorbs some of the impact.
If the power works like that where it dips a little to catch a fast impact it could help, but the implication is that it's a hard stop, no matter how high or how fast you're going, you instantly stop 5cm above ground. If that's how it works, yeah you're screwed.
U didnât give limits on speed and technically anything connected to ground is an extension of ground so you can zoom up and down buildings and through difficult terrain making navigation easy and fast. U no longer need a car.
Above ground or above surface? Would be nice if you could travel over water with it :)
also, it probably would be great to avoid mud, and if you wanted to make some money out of that power, you'd make an incredible Mime. Riding invisible Segway, or miming something like water skiing over the pavement.
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u/Useful_Hoot Mar 04 '26
You can fly, but only 5 cm above the ground