Leave the high moral posturing to the alternative media newspapers. We're also not interested in hearing about your trip to Cuba. Unless you got laid. Try to keep the material as accessible as possible. Just try to keep it accessibly obscure, or if you prefer, obscurely accessible.
Safety is a consideration in design and building hovercraft for several reasons.
The most obvious reason is that you have a propeller with a tip that can achieve near-supersonic speed of travel. Please do not submit fake newspaper editorial-style articles. We will invariably redirect them, depending on our mood, to either the Onion or the National Post. The earliest prototypes of hovercraft attempted to employ the surface effect without skirts and ended up very unstable. The skirts stabilize the hover and permit controlled operation.