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Originally Posted by j-c-c
I am no longer "stunned", I am now sadded, but hopeful of my idea, you are the only one that "doesn't see the point".
And your conspiracy theory analogy has been wrong numerous times in the world, with plenty of examples.
Please don't let this discussion devolve into a tin hat conversation, as that ain't my thing, but I will not categorically refuse to listen to another's theory or idea because it has yet to be "tested".
Doesn't sound like you have enjoyed many brainstorming sessions that you have had to consider other inputs on a level playing field, other than your own?
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Anyone can come up with ideas - and people very often do. I've had three this morning.
- I wonder if I put cabin outlet vents on the roof whether that would energise the boundary layer and reduce flow separation?
- I wonder if the sky is blue above my house today because someone is holding up a big blue sheet?
- I wonder if I pressurised the frame of my bicycle at say 100 psi whether I could run tubes with paper thin wall thickness?
My classic story of an idea is the probably apocryphal one of WWII. Someone wrote to the UK government saying they had an idea for finding all the German Wolfpack submarines in the Atlantic.
Yes, asked the government, what is your idea?
Oh, said the correspondent, we should just boil the ocean dry.
Ideas are ten a penny - like opinions. Everyone has them. Ideas
alone are worthless.
I am also amazed how people have, and I can only describe it as the arrogance, to believe ideas they come up with are worthy of consideration... without their having done even an hour of research or any testing at all. For example, I would never, ever suggest how solar race teams could do better. They are so far ahead of anything I could come up with that it's just not funny. We've had a person in this group suggest that the head of Porsche aerodynamics knows little. He knows so much more than any of us about car aerodynamics that to think otherwise is to be completely deluded.
I am currently (ie this morning) working with a suspension expert as I write a book on the history of car suspension. He knows so much more than I do about suspension that, even if I spent every minute between now and when I die studying suspension, I could never catch up. So yes, I am indeed happy to be guided by experts suggesting ideas. And you can be sure that in every case, they will have plenty of evidence to support the ideas they suggest -
otherwise, they wouldn't have suggested them.