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Project Habakkuk was a wartime proposal to build an enormous aircraft carrier from “pykrete,” an ice-and-wood-pulp composite pitched as strong, slow to melt, and difficult to sink. The transcript describes a concept on an almost absurd scale, including a roughly 2,000-foot floating platform designed to support large numbers of aircraft ...
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