For me it's a pleasant thing to ponder, especially when faced with the above mentioned existing problems. > It's insane that people don't recognize how many pe

For me it's a pleasant thing to ponder, especially when faced with the above mentioned existing problems. > It's insane that people don't recognize how many people have tried before and the awful things that happen when it fails. I think it's just human nature, perhaps even more so in an engineering community. Look at how much of scientific progress follows that pattern, and even worse with the participants fully recognizing the immense amounts of preceding failures.