> Yes, people love stories like the space pen vs the pencil. The supposedly educated engineer getting shown up by the clever average joe with common sense. Ther

> Yes, people love stories like the space pen vs the pencil. The supposedly educated engineer getting shown up by the clever average joe with common sense. There's always someone smarter than you, but see well actually they're not that smart because they're not street smart. And yet that classic example is also an example of people really not understanding the nuance of larger systems; in that specific case, there were concerns about graphite creating electrical issues in the ship's electrical systems.