MrSnatch: Many people here ask highly intelligent questions. While they may not be well versed in the sciences, it does demonstrate to me that they are thinking at a high level.
I don't consider any question 'stupid.' People ask questions because they want to know something. That is a totally honest and legitimate reason. I endeavor to provide an answer here so that all readers will be able to understand. Sometimes I tend to over simplify.
I'll give everyone here a bit of advice; you could take the most complex electronic circuit which few on this board would understand and try to explain it to them. It is virtually impossible to do as such. BUT, if you break that circuit down into its' most basic components, it becomes easy to understand what each is doing. Complexity arrives when you take several relatively simple things and make them interact with one another. The more simple things interacting with one another, the more complexity.
I am not well versed in aerodynamics. I did design an aircraft about 8 years ago. But, I was smart enough to submit the design to an aerospace consulting company for an evaluation. They did some changes to the design for stability, as well as use my original airfoil at the wing root and make it taper into another towards the wingtip. I welcomed those changes.
Your personal automobile is not the work of one person. There are teams of designers and engineers working on a basic design concept. Most automobile companys use the 'design by committee' approach. In other words, what is 'acceptable' to the majority. Same thing holds true when you get on an airliner. 10,000 brains worked on that airplane design before you ever fastened your seatbelt.
I don't know the educational credentials of anyone posting on this board. I'm sure that most people here are experts in their own fields of endeavor. Studies have shown that most people who invest in the stock market are of greater intelligence than those who do not. Why? Because investors usually have analytical minds and tend to think things through. The postings on this board bear that out.
No man should be considered totally useless....because he can always serve as a bad example.
