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Hmm.. that made me think of The first Jumbo Jet to be flown commercially and where it ended up, It doesn't have to be floating nor flying:
http://www.darkroastedblend.co...

this is the inverse (contrapositive? i didn't pay that much attention in logic101;-) of one of stan mott's cartoons in car&driver waaaay back when...in addition to his brilliant cyclops series (recently introduced as the tata nano https://www.carthrottle.com/po... ;-) he mocked safety regs with a cartoon of ppl driving around in federal safety tanks ramming anyone who got in their way;-}
http://www.deansgarage.com/201...
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http://www.darkroastedblend.com/ - Limit yourself to one or two links.

I second that. Would love a scale model RC of one of these bad boys: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/08/jet-engines-on-trucks-for-fun-and.html

It certainly works; but the enthalpy of fusion of water is damn high. Useful when icing drinks; but means that you'll need a great deal of energy to turn even just-below-freezing snow into just-above-freezing water.

Using jet engines mounted on vehicles as combination snow blowers/melters has been done(those crazy ruskies...); but fighter engines aren't exactly known for their fuel economy.

For the suitably well-heeled, thermostatically controlled resistive heaters, cast into concrete or buried under asphalt, are available that will keep the pavement snow and ice free; but the electricity required to manage that isn't cheap.

the russians don't mess around when it comes to snow removal. they take a klimov vk-1 jet engine from a mig-15 and strap it on a truck, amongst other eyebrow raising configurations:

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2009/08/jet-engines-on-trucks-for-fun-and.html

i think i would step a little livelier if i saw a snow plow like that coming at me down the street

+5 funny if you ask me
But it's not entirely accurate.

The various plot elements -- such as they are -- have been used over and over again in fiction. Dark Roasted Blend had an entire "issue" devoted to ten possible sources for Avatar from Science Fiction.

And of course, don't forget the simple visual inspection. Sometimes the cabling infrastructure may not quite be up to spec.

DarkRoastedBlend is awesome. Did you see the page on Socotra?

Indeed. Mammatus aren't too common, but they're really creepy when you do see them in person; it's a whole, "clouds aren't supposed to look like that!" feeling. There's some great photos here. And yes, they actually do look that unreal.

Will making documentation more entertaining actually work to get people to read it?

The Germans thought so:

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/02/wwii-nazis -tank-manuals-unexpectedly.html