It is.
And as usual, a bunch of liberal arts majors turned lawyers and blowhards are second-guessing everything.
There are a class of problems where I wish more of us engineers would get more assertive with these clowns. We should start some of these discussions with this:
“Do you have an engineering degree? Do you have a PE license? If you have neither of these things, your greatest contribution can be made if you would please go over in that corner and STFU. Thank you.”
Yeah, yeah... It was the certified pros that made the mess in the first place.
There are a class of problems where I wish more of us engineers would get more assertive with these clowns. We should start some of these discussions with this:
“Do you have an engineering degree? Do you have a PE license? If you have neither of these things, your greatest contribution can be made if you would please go over in that corner and STFU. Thank you.”
That is exactly what happened to the former head of NASA.
When the Obama transition team person (a previous associate administrator for PR) began to argue with the head of NASA about the safety of Ares I, he said something like: Do you have an engineering degree? If not, you don’t have a right to an opinion.”
Needless to say, the day Obama took office, he was out.