Lack Of Daring Spoils Fog Control
The plan was, we would dangle long hoses downward from a flotilla of small planes flying just at the top of wintertime, supercooled fog over a large urban area. Liquid carbon dioxide would flow from the hoses into the fog and create ice crystals that should clear out the fog. All very well and good.

But what happens if the fast-moving dangling hoses catch on something in the fog, like power lines, or some other urban obstacles? That could bring small planes down in seconds!

What to do? What to do?

To start, it's best that we evade aviation authorities that might demand expensive remedies, like well-engineered detachable hoses, and instead insist to legislators that engineering research is inherently risky, and seek their help passing laws that would provide a legal cloak for the risky work. No legal liability for any possible damages from crashing aircraft might be a start. It's SCIENCE!

As always, young students without families (such as myself) would man the aircraft, providing an extra protective shield from any sudden unpleasantness resulting from hoses that don't detach.

We don't take unnecessary risks, you see, just unavoidable ones.

But since we didn't actually own the aircraft, in the end, no one bought the argument. Student life may be cheap, but aircraft are too valuable for this kind of work.
(Perv With A Dog had his eyes pecked out by scrub jays on, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 8:07, 1 reply)

Bollocks.
This is completely moronic and hugely expensive before even thinking about things like the fact Carbon Dioxide is sublime.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 8 Jul 2011, 19:12, closed)