The probably 5 people in the world who are domain experts in the Hubble's control system don't really need a hundred backseat drivers, that won't help any. And

The probably 5 people in the world who are domain experts in the Hubble's control system don't really need a hundred backseat drivers, that won't help any. And as someone who has been invited into "war rooms" by managers who do the "you're smart so of course you can help these other smart people stuck on a hard problem" there's a real skill to being able to read the room and know when to back the fuck out of it or just shut the fuck up -- which most intellectuals don't have. Sit and listen for awhile and take it in. Then maybe take your best idea and ask a very toned down question. If the person who seems to be leading the troubleshooting instructs you on why that's wrong, throws in 3 neighboring ideas that also don't work, with 5 reasons you haven't considered for why that's the entirely wrong path, then just nod in agreement and be quiet and see what you can learn from the domain experts. Peppering that team with a dozen outside "experts" is going to be useless because they'll just start getting really defensive after awhile, and even if someone winds up throwing out the right solution they'll probably reflexively reject it. OTOH if that team ASKS for someone who has expertise the team lacks and needs, then go assemble a team skilled at the use of cellphones and the internet to hunt that person down and drag them into the conversation.