It wouldn’t matter if an aircraft gets keyed over.  If ATC doesn’t acknowledge, they just repeat.  ATC’s acknowledgement response would come on the ATC to Aircraft dedicated line that CANNOT be keyed over.

Read.

Change your own mind. Stick a Li-ion battery in water.

duplex broadcasting is easy enough. TX from the ATC reaches all aircraft RX. TX from any aircraft reaches RX at the ATC as well as a secondary RX on each aircraft.

Some comms don’t need to be broadcast in a manner that can be keyed over.

...and the average snail moves at an average pace.

Elevated above a minor flood.  Enough that normal runoff goes around and not over, and it will still be dry if water is a few inches deep.

It appears two pilots had hit their radio buttons at the same time of and the Southwest flight crew missed the controller’s message.

If we’re too busy for safety, we won’t be too busy long.

We still have half duplex radio communications on aircraft? I have full-duplex in my pocket.

Never forget how incredibly unintelligent the average person is.

If I’m going to build a car around me to keep dry, I might as well take the car.

No, build them into a platform that possibly even elevates the tanker. It doesn’t have to be as tall as the vents (would be bad if it was). 1 ft would be plenty.

At 60+ mph rain HURTS.

Station tank fill access should be elevated.

arresting wires simply bring the aircraft down below stall speed very quickly.

The two purposes they seem to serve are:

As it turns out, all humans are allergic to oxygen.

So... those buttons and switches are labeled.

There’s no way to do this with the current dealership model.